I found this Ted talk about school lunches by Ann Cooper, and I was really worried it would be scaremongering about the 'obesity crisis', like lots of other comment on this issue. Mostly it's not. She focuses on health rather than weight. The reforms seem to be based around teaching children what healthy food is like, rather than what their bodies need to look like . Which is something both very needed and very rare. I also like the way she links healthy eating both too environmental and social justice issues.
However, I'm uncomfortable with the way that she illustrates the idea of an 'XXL' generation with a picture of an overweight child. She so nearly demonstrated the possibility of talking about health issues without resorting to fat-shaming. But her campaign still sounds a heck of a lot better than most of the ideas out there aimed at improving the 'health' of school kids.
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