"My preference is to spend money now on the solutions." David Katz, director of the Yale University Prevention Research Center. "A picture may be worth a thousand words, but we already have many thousands of published words on this topic - more than enough to know, in my mind, what's broken," said Dr. ![]() Some researchers call the expensive experiment a boon to food science, but skeptics worry it's a boondoggle that will only reaffirm what parents already know: Kids like high-sugar, high-fat and high-salt foods, and eat too much of them. Unveiled Wednesday at five Texas elementary schools, the high-tech set-up will snap photos of kids' lunch trays before they check out and after they eat to generate a nutritional report card for parents. The government is spending $2 million on cafeteria cameras to figure out what, and how much, kids eat at school. May 13, 2011— - Say cheese, chicken sandwich.
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