Thank you.
Perhaps what I'm about to say is going to sound a little simplistic, but we've spent all this money on obesity, childhood obesity, and what makes teenagers fat and what makes older people fat, and I think we all know what that is. It's when your caloric intake and the energy that you spend on using this up is greater than your exercise.
I'm wondering if one of the issues when I think why are kids.... I ate quite well when I was a kid. I ate a lot of food that I probably shouldn't have, as well as good food. However, the level of exercise was greater. We didn't have school buses. We would maybe walk a mile and a half to school. There was compulsory physical education. There were after-school programs, which I don't think are as prevalent today, with volunteers from teachers needing to head up the basketball teams and the other sporting activities.
We're talking about healthy snacks at school. Now, perhaps if we're talking about preschool children or children in day care, where you're teaching them habits, that may be effective. I eat my salads and I eat my fruit, as well as a whole bunch of other stuff afterwards. I think the key is physical activity, even more than healthy snacks.
Now, the other thing that caught my attention was when Ms. Lamarche said we're trying to get into the schools. These are federally funded schools. What's the problem in getting into them?