Name: 【TED】Sam Kass: Want kids to learn well? Feed them well (Want kids to learn well? Feed them well | Sam Kass)
Uploaded: 2017-04-06T08:11:30.000Z
Duration: 12 min 9 s
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Translator: Joseph Geni Reviewer: Camille Martínez

but I come from a whole family of teachers.

My sister is a special ed teacher in Chicago.

My father just retired after 25 years teaching fifth grade.

Everybody in my family, basically, teaches except for me.

They taught me that the only way to get the right answers

when it comes to improving the educational outcomes for our children?

There's obviously many important questions,

but I think the following is a good place to start:

if their diets are full of sugar and empty of nutrients?

if their bodies are literally going hungry?

And with all the resources that we are pouring into schools,

Are we really setting our kids up for success?

I was a judge on a cooking competition called "Chopped."

Four chefs compete with mystery ingredients

Except for this episode -- it was a very special one.

Instead of four overzealous chefs trying to break into the limelight --

something that I would know nothing about --

you know, the women that you used to call "lunch ladies,"

but the ones I insist we call "school chefs."

Now, these women -- God bless these women --

spend their day cooking for thousands of kids,

breakfast and lunch, with only $2.68 per lunch,

with only about a dollar of that actually going to the food.

the main-course mystery ingredient was quinoa.

since most of you have had a school lunch,

and we've made a lot of progress on nutrition,

but quinoa still is not a staple in most school cafeterias.

But the dish that I will never forget was cooked by a woman

at High School in the Community in Connecticut.

It was a pappardelle with Italian sausage,

It was delicious, like, restaurant-quality good, except --

she basically just threw the quinoa, pretty much uncooked,

So I took on the TV accusatory judge thing that you're supposed to do,

Cheryl responded, "Well, first, I don't know what quinoa is."

and that in my school, at High School in the Community,

See, Cheryl explained that for many of her kids,

So she cooked pasta because she wanted to make sure

she cooked something she knew her children would eat.

Something that would stick to their ribs, she said.

Cheryl talked about how, by the time Monday came,

that they couldn't even begin to think about learning.

And unfortunately, the stats -- they tell the same story.

So, let's put this into the context of a child.

the most important meal of the day, breakfast.

and she wants to be a physicist when she grows up.

If Allison goes to a school that serves a nutritious breakfast

Her chances of getting a nutritious meal,

one with fruit and milk, one lower in sugar and salt,

Allison will have a lower rate of obesity than the average kid.

She'll have lower levels of anxiety and depression.

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