No, Thanks! to Michelle Obama’s “Nutritious” School Breakfasts

A colleague sent me the article “On What Planet is Michelle Obama
Breakfast Considered Healthy?” [1] and, as a retired consulting natural
nutritionist in physicians’ offices and private practice, I wanted to
throw up! Here’s the photograph of the supposed breakfast served to a
high schooler in Lubbock, Texas, as posted on a Facebook page:

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Nutritionally speaking, it looks like something you would pick up
after taking your dog for a walk. Not only that, there is very little
nutritional content, either in quantity or quality, for a high school
kid to start his/her day. Now, I’d like to offer my analysis of the
‘breakfast’, so here goes:

Not balanced!
Too many starches, which will play havoc with blood sugar levels:
corn tortilla*, 3 tater tots, which can be a mixture of many ingredients
[potatoes, vegetable oil (sunflower, cottonseed*, soybean*, and/or
canola*), salt, yellow corn flour*, onions, dextrose (sugar [2]),
disodium dihydrogen pyrophosphate [3], natural flavoring*]. *probable GM
ingredients
Bacon bits ingredients,
which basically are highly processed, chemicalized and probable GM
starches that could impact a student’s ability negatively to
concentrate; experience blood sugar metabolism problems—even exacerbate
juvenile diabetes; plus hype up any ADD/ADHD tendencies; cause allergic
reactions, indigestion or digestive/bowel distress.
This ‘breakfast’ is nothing short of unmitigated junk food, in my
professional opinion, which should not be served as a ‘nutritious’
meal—or even as a snack—under any circumstances to anyone, especially a
growing child who needs all the viable nutrition he/she can eat during
the course of a day.
If corn (grain) and soy (legume) are being considered complementary
proteins, they certainly aren’t ‘packaged’ and presented in either an
appetizing or nutritious manner, i.e., highly processed and
chemicalized.
No: fruit—apple, applesauce, baby banana, or fruit cup, quality fiber, nuts or seeds.
No: milk, yogurt, or milk (almond, etc.) or yogurt (soy, almond, etc.) substitutes [4].
No whole grains such as those found in granola cereal or granola bars.