Retinkers 5/13/2012 (The Weight of the Nation for Kids: The Great Cafeteria Takeover)

​Wednesday
 
HBO, 7 PM/6C
 
The three-part series “The Weight of the Nation for Kids“ begins with a look at a group of children in post Katrina New Orleans, who work together to transform their school’s lunch menu, all part of their community fight against obesity. A companion series for the four part “The Weight of the Nation,” Monday, and Tuesday.  The program details how roughly 94 percent of school lunches fail to meet federal health standards, and 80 percent of the lunches served in the schools exceed federal recommendations for total fat and saturated fat.  Dubbing themselves the “Rethinkers,“ the young activists attracted the media by surveying their fellow students and issuing them annual report cards, then met with school officials and corporate executives from Aramark, one of the nations largest food service providers, to get them thinking about the quality of school meals and how they could be improved.
 
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The Commercial Appeal
13 May 2012, Sun · Page 104