MIAMI BEACH, Florida – even though she lobbied Congress last year to increase the rate of reimbursement for school lunches, celebrity food Rachael Ray said Saturday that improve nutrition of school can best be tackled closer to home, in small steps without stepping on toes.
"Until they insult someone and start with a conversation instead of a lesson, it's really easy to find people who are willing to make small changes," he said. "Finger wagging Disables all."
Ray, Yum-o! charity teaches children healthy eating, spoke of this approach in an interview for Associated Press to wine and Food Festival in South Beach. While she welcomed the plan recently announced by the Department of agriculture to implement the first revision main nutritional meals for students in 15 years, Ray said parents and others should not sit.
Within the framework of the guidelines announced last month, would be necessary for school cafeterias to cut the sodium in subsidized lunches by over half, use more whole grains and serve milk low fat. But these changes might take years to implement, and meanwhile, schools can find other ways to encourage healthy eating, such as vegetable gardens or students by offering healthier options in vending machines, Ray said.
"You don't have to wait to make a law, you can make changes in your school just going in there and telling them that you care," he said.
Seven months after the trip to Ray in Washington last spring, President Barack Obama signed a law in December to extend access to free lunch programs and by increasing the federal reimbursement for the free school lunch 6 cents for a meal. Ray said that he was pleasantly surprised that members of Congress listen to his pitch, but was struck by the short-sightedness of some who couldn't see that today's obese children will be generate expensive medical bills in future years.
"They can't see that debt, so that they didn't intend to do nothing, does not yet exist," he said. "It's really childish, ironically".
Said that you do not understand people who throw the food policy debate as a battle between elite and ordinary or criticize the of first lady Michelle Obama fitness and obesity initiatives.
"How could criticize the idea of children playing in the sunlight and eat healthy food?" he said. "I don't know a person in my circle wide or narrow that agrees with any of that."
Although I grew up eating a healthy diet, Mediterranean style, Ray said he was a latecomer to exercise and do not begin execution until she turned 40.
"When I started running, I felt like I wasted twenty years of my adult life," he said. "Make a difference and that difference huge emotional in your clarity of thought vigorously exercising on a regular basis".
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