Can someone give a citation for this article? I am a teacher and would like to include it in my thesis research.
Thanks! > A MIRACLE IN WISCONSIN - Attributed to Good > Food! > > OCTOBER 14. In Appleton, Wisconsin, a revolution has > occurred. It's > taken place in the Central Alternative High School. > The kids now behave. > The hallways aren't frantic. Even the teachers are > happy. > > The school used to be out of control. Kids packed > weapons. Discipline > problems swamped the principal's office. But not > since 1997. > > What happened? Did they line every inch of space > with cops? Did they > spray valium gas in the classrooms? Did they install > metal detectors in > the bathrooms? Did they build holding cells in the > gym? > > Afraid not. In 1997, a private group called Natural > Ovens began > installing a healthy lunch program. Huh? > > Fast-food burgers, fries, and burritos gave way to > fresh salads, meats > "prepared with old-fashioned recipes," and whole > grain bread. Fresh > fruits were added to the menu. Good drinking water > arrived. > > Vending machines were removed. > > As reported in a newsletter called Pure Facts, > "Grades are up, truancy > is no longer a problem, arguments are rare, and > teachers are able to > spend their time teaching." > > Principal Lu Ann Coenen, who files annual reports > with the state of > Wisconsin, has turned in some staggering figures > since 1997. Drop-outs? > Students expelled? Students discovered to be using > drugs? Carrying > weapons? Committing suicide? Every category has come > up ZERO. Every > year. > > Mary Bruyette, a teacher, states, "I don't have to > deal with daily > discipline issues. I don't have disruptions in class > or the difficulties > with student behavior I experienced before we > started the food program." > > One student asserted, "Now that I can concentrate I > think it's easier to > get along with people." What a concept---eating > healthier food increases > concentration. > > Principal Coenen sums it up: "I can't buy the > argument that it's too > costly for schools to provide good nutrition for > their students. I found > that one cost will reduce another. I don't have the > vandalism. I don't > have the litter. I don't have the need for high > security." > > At a nearby middle school, the new food program is > catching on. A > teacher there, Dennis Abram, reports, "I've taught > here almost 30 years. > I see the kids this year as calmer, easier to talk > to. They just seem > more rational. I had thought about retiring this > year and basically I've > decided to teach another year---I'm having too much > fun!" > > Pure Facts, the newsletter that ran this story, is > published by a > non-profit organization called The Feingold > Association, which has > existed since 1976. Part of its mission is to > "generate public awareness > of the potential role of foods and synthetic > additives in behavior, > learning and health problems. The [Feingold] program > is based on a diet > eliminating synthetic colors, synthetic flavors, and > the preservatives > BHA, BHT, and TBHQ." > > Thirty years ago there was a Dr. Feingold. His > breakthrough work proved > the connection between these negative factors in > food and the lives of > children. Hailed as a revolutionary advance, > Feingold's findings were > soon trashed by the medical cartel, since those > findings threatened the > drugs-for-everything, disease-model concept of > modern health care. > > But Feingold's followers have kept his work alive. > If what happened in > Appleton, Wisconsin, takes hold in many other > communities across > America, perhaps the ravenous corporations who > invade school space with > their vending machines and junk food will be tossed > out on their > behinds. It could happen. > > And perhaps ADHD will become a dinosaur. A > non-disease that was once > attributed to errant brain chemistry. And perhaps > Ritalin will be seen > as just another toxic chemical that was added to the > bodies of kids in a > crazed attempt to put a lid on behavior that, in > part, was the result of > a subversion of the food supply. > > For those readers who ask me about solutions to the > problems we > face---here is a real solution. Help these groups. > Get involved. Step > into the fray. Stand up and be counted. > > The drug companies aren't going to do it. They're > busy estimating the > size of their potential markets. They're building > their chemical > pipelines into the minds and bodies of the young. > > Every great revolution starts with a foothold. > Sounds like Natural > Ovensand The Feingold Association have made strong > cuts into the big > rock of ignorance and greed. > > Robin Duchesneau wrote: > > > Hugh, > > > > Wow! That's quite the US military history lesson. > If all U.S. citizens > > were better informed of their world doings things > would certainly be > > different. But, this is not the case... and the > U.S. media industry should > > be pointed out as wrong doing too. Not only > politicians. > > > === message truncated === ===== @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Stacey Elin Rossi [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://zip.to/anaserene @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search new jobs daily now http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/
