Jul 2, 2023 02:43 PM
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(school fashions) Muslim activist gives powerful speech against forced LGBTQ curriculum: 'Our people are not backward'
https://www.foxnews.com/media/muslim-act...e-backward
INTRO: Muslim parents delivered passionate speeches against elementary schoolchildren in Maryland's Montgomery County Public Schools being forced to learn LGBTQ sexuality curriculum against parents' wishes at a Tuesday school board meeting.
Parents, students and activists have taken issue over the past few weeks with the school district removing an opt-out option for LGBTQ sexuality curriculum.
"We [as Muslims] reject the implication that acting on our faith's principles is a willful means of harming others. In fact, we see it as a point of bigotry that some only care for our community and will only protect our rights when we assimilate to their way of life and ways of thinking," Sameera Munshi of the Coalition of Virtue said.
"Our faith is not partisan and our people are not backwards," she continued. "Part of the American dream of our people is that they pass on their values to their children. But members of this school board have mocked our values and have said we cannot be allowed to opt our children out precisely because they want to end that dream." (MORE - details)
(diet styles) It’s time to end the tyranny of ultra-processed food
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/tyranny-...n-tulleken
INTRO: Diet-related disease—which includes obesity, heart attack, strokes, cancer, and dementia—is the leading cause of early death in the UK. Driving it is a set of industrially processed products that are sold as food, known formally as ultra-processed food (UPF).
This type of food is usually wrapped in plastic and has additives that you won’t find in a typical kitchen. In the US and the UK, we get on average 60 percent of our calories from UPF products like pizza, bread, breakfast cereals, biscuits, and nutritional drinks. They’re often sold as healthy options, but it’s just a way of turning our ill health into money. UPF is a byproduct of a complicated financial system that involves repurposing waste from animal food into human food.
To solve this problem, the first thing we need to do is include in the official UK guidance about nutrition the information that ultra-processed foods are associated with weight gain and diet-related diseases, and that the recommendation for people is to avoid these foods. Many countries like Brazil and France already do this.
Limiting the marketing of ultra-processed foods is essential. We need to learn the lessons from regulating the tobacco industry and stop predatory companies selling this food to people.
We also need to change the ultra-processed institutional food that we serve in hospitals, schools, and prisons. There is very good evidence that when feeding patients and staff in hospitals, real food is hugely beneficial.
There are also misconceptions we need to address... (MORE - details)
https://www.foxnews.com/media/muslim-act...e-backward
INTRO: Muslim parents delivered passionate speeches against elementary schoolchildren in Maryland's Montgomery County Public Schools being forced to learn LGBTQ sexuality curriculum against parents' wishes at a Tuesday school board meeting.
Parents, students and activists have taken issue over the past few weeks with the school district removing an opt-out option for LGBTQ sexuality curriculum.
"We [as Muslims] reject the implication that acting on our faith's principles is a willful means of harming others. In fact, we see it as a point of bigotry that some only care for our community and will only protect our rights when we assimilate to their way of life and ways of thinking," Sameera Munshi of the Coalition of Virtue said.
"Our faith is not partisan and our people are not backwards," she continued. "Part of the American dream of our people is that they pass on their values to their children. But members of this school board have mocked our values and have said we cannot be allowed to opt our children out precisely because they want to end that dream." (MORE - details)
(diet styles) It’s time to end the tyranny of ultra-processed food
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/tyranny-...n-tulleken
INTRO: Diet-related disease—which includes obesity, heart attack, strokes, cancer, and dementia—is the leading cause of early death in the UK. Driving it is a set of industrially processed products that are sold as food, known formally as ultra-processed food (UPF).
This type of food is usually wrapped in plastic and has additives that you won’t find in a typical kitchen. In the US and the UK, we get on average 60 percent of our calories from UPF products like pizza, bread, breakfast cereals, biscuits, and nutritional drinks. They’re often sold as healthy options, but it’s just a way of turning our ill health into money. UPF is a byproduct of a complicated financial system that involves repurposing waste from animal food into human food.
To solve this problem, the first thing we need to do is include in the official UK guidance about nutrition the information that ultra-processed foods are associated with weight gain and diet-related diseases, and that the recommendation for people is to avoid these foods. Many countries like Brazil and France already do this.
Limiting the marketing of ultra-processed foods is essential. We need to learn the lessons from regulating the tobacco industry and stop predatory companies selling this food to people.
We also need to change the ultra-processed institutional food that we serve in hospitals, schools, and prisons. There is very good evidence that when feeding patients and staff in hospitals, real food is hugely beneficial.
There are also misconceptions we need to address... (MORE - details)