I find it interesting what steps we take to try to protect our kids.  We have these ideas that it takes a village to raise a child, and it does.  But at the same point in time, we are continually taking a lot of the responsibility off the shoulders of parents who provide the real basis for healthy living and otherwise.  I mean if parents didn’t give kids lunch money and instead just packed them sack lunches every day with healthy foods, they might trade around foods.  But frankly, if other kids won’t trade with them, they don’t really get a better choice and at home of course you should try to feed them healthier. 

But Iowa has apparently passed an act called the Healthy Kids Act.  Basically, they require students to get CPR training before graduation, they have nutritional guidelines for all foods sold and distributed at the schools, they basically set up more exercise and activity requiring that all students have at least 30-120 minutes of exercise per day depending on the age group.  Some parts are hard to manage.  I mean I got out of PE every year after 5^th grade because of bad asthma.  But realistically speaking, you can’t monitor their lives in total.  It eventually falls back to parents.