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In an average gym class, a child is aerobically active for only 3.5 minutes.

In 2004, the associated Press reported that Krispy Kreme stores would give Palm Beach County (Florida) students in kindergarten through 6th grade a free doughnut for every A on their report card.

Pillsbury and General Mills worked with food writers and women’s magazines after World War II to convince American housewives that cooking meals from scratch was arduous old-fashioned, unhygienic, expensive, and generally inferior to prepackaged cake mixes, TV dinners, and frozen scrambled eggs.

Brian Haweil of the Worldwatch Institute reported that every dollar spent with a local food business is worth 2.50 to the community.

In 1980s, under Reagan budget cuts, new foods are added to the permissible list. Ketchup as a vegetable was a shocking one (paraphrased)

Great Depression of 1930s, people were hungry, not because of a shortage of food, but because they didn’t have the money to buy food, and as a result, American farmers were left with enormous agricultural surpluses and were in danger of losing their farms.