Letter: School lunch is not the culprit in our children's obesity

Published: Sunday, Oct. 7 2012 12:00 a.m. MDT

A student picks up grapes in the lunch line at Copper Hills High School in West Jordan on Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012.

Kristin Murphy, Deseret News

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School lunch is not making our kids fat. It's what happens after 4 p.m. and on the weekends.

Pamela Cotter

Murray

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Hutterite

American Fork, UT

So, what are you saying? Is it that, not only does the much maligned first lady have a good idea, but it turns out that she's not an omnipotent food czar? That our kids are actually fat, those that point it out may be correct and it's our More..

1:14 a.m. Oct. 7, 2012
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George

Bronx, NY

School lunch may not be causing our kids to be fat - but the way it was certainly wasn't doing anything to keep them healthy and not fat.