A new group - Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood - wants Pizza Hut to stop promoting its "Book It" program. And, the group wants the schools to stop feeding pizzas to kids who read.
Forget the fact that some 925,000 elementary school classrooms are motivated to read more so they can have a pizza party once a year.
Forget the fact that one school's 500 students read 30,000 books in one year!
You just can't read and learn and be better for it, if you are going to have Pizza Hut's 620 calorie, 26 grams of fat, Personal Pan Pizza when you put the book down.
What in the world is wrong with these people?
17% of American kids are obese and many more are overweight. If parents could see over their bellies they would know that.
But, one pizza did not make those kids fat...it was the third, fourth or fifth one of the week their parents served them because they were too lazy, er, tired to cook.
Obesity comes from eating a large pizza, alone. Not from eating a personal pan sized one after meeting a monthly reading goal.
Pizza Hut makes out on this program of encouraging kids to read. What's wrong with that? Why not add 'Johnny Ate Too Many Pizzas in One Week" to the reading list and give the kids credit for learning from what they read.
When I was doing triathlons...we considered pizza good food...it met the 70-20-10 criteria. 70% carbs, 20% protein and 10% fat. Through some wheat flour in the pizza dough mix, go easy on the sauce, add some meat and sprinkle enough cheese to make it a pizza, and do NOT eat the whole medium or large pizza in one sitting, and you have a good healthy meal, I think.
I'd like to see the people who are behind this campaign. They probably came up with the idea while eating one Little Ceasar's $5 special...EACH.
Do you think Pizza Hut should not promote good reading habits among kids?
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