WASHINGTON, D.C. – First lady Michelle Obama’s campaign to address the nation’s youth obesity epidemic is actually making kids fatter, according to a new study.
Virginia Tech College of Agriculture and Life Sciences professor Wen You found that the longer kids eat government-funded school meals, the more likely they will be overweight, which means low-income kids the program seeks to help are the most at risk, Eurekalert.org reports.
The study, published in the journal of Health Economics, also points out the most obvious problems with the federal school food regulations championed by Michelle Obama: government regulations don’t help students understand why it’s important to eat healthy, or make the unappetizing result of the regulations more bearable..."
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