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Show SCHOOL LUNCH A BLESSING IN DISGUISE dent will like every day. When some young people see food before them that they don't particularly like, they won't eat it. Some students are so devoted to sweets and empty calorie foods that they eat little else. On the other hand many enjoy school lunch. These lunches taste like the kind of food mom cooks because most of the people whopre-pare whopre-pare school lunches are Moms. Hungry kids don't learn well In school. Their minds are on food, not reading or albegra. Since it helps so many, it has to be one of the most worthwhile things that the government does. That's why the program should be kept intact not made unavailable unavail-able to many young people. Cuts in the federal support could be a real blow to the health of a lot of our young people. The cuts could make school lunches unaffordable to many. School lunches are the target tar-get of unfounded criticism and unthinking politicians, but these midday meals are tremendously Important to thousands of Utah children. School lunches have been the butt of too nwm undeserved undeser-ved criticisms of late, said Ray Holt, Executive Director Direct-or of the Utah School Employees Em-ployees Assn. School lunch is the only balanced meal that a lot of young people get. I'm not talking about just children from poor families. Good nutrition is unknown in some of the wealthiest weal-thiest families and plenty of middle class homes. School lunch may be the best health insurance our young people have In this day of junk food "mania. The lunches provide one third to one half of one day's nutritive requirements. Each lunch is required to have Items from the four basic food groups milk, meat, bread-cereal, and vegetable -fruit groups. About 212,000 young people eat school lunches regularly In Utah. It is impossible for a cafeteria cafe-teria to have a menu with items that every single stu- i |