Kids are lining up for breakfasts of corn dogs,...

Kids are lining up for breakfasts of corn dogs,...
Kids are lining up for breakfasts of corn dogs,..

Kids are lining up daily for breakfasts of sausage pizzas and corn dogs at Sacramento elementary schools, according to the April 18, 2010 Sacramento Bee article, by Melody Gutierrez, "Sacramento area schools try to serve healthier food."

If the only place parents and teachers have to look is the U.S. Senate, then the nutrition guidelines pending there currently may be a step toward getting salty, fatty, and sugary processed foods out of public school lunch menus in Sacramento. You have to contend with what kids eat for breakfast in school and what they eat for lunch.

School meals are a big issue with the government. Michelle Obama has been traveling across the USA or broadcasting on television for schools and families to take some action to prevent or reverse childhood obesity. Our children will be the first generation to develop chronic diseases related to diet and lifestyle at an earlier age than our grandparents did in the 1940s.

You can't turn on your TV set without seeing reality shows about school cafeteria workers or comments about the quality of food served in public schools. It's going to take people with the power the change standards to make any improvements in the local nutrition standards of what's served in Sacramento's elementary school cafeterias.

Instead of serving choices of raw food diets or lots of fruit and vegetables other than fried potatoes or battered zucchini and fried corn hush puppies, in most of the local and national elementary schools a large number of packages of frozen, processed foods arrive with the only cooking being done is a batch of salty, processed foods full of fat, salt, and sugar getting warmed up in an oven. Who's really cooking meals in the public school cafeteria kitchens?

Most of the foods are processed. Once the food is processed, it's dead food. It's not sprouted grain, and not green leafy vegetables that are raw or balanced. It's food that has lost most of its nutritional value and taste. On one hand, you have Sacramento City