Parents Monitor School Lunches by the Click of a Button

The healthy school lunch craze has gotten even crazier! According to the Daily Mail, parents of students at St. John's Church of England School in London, are now able to monitor and see what their children ate for lunch by accessing an online site. This is how it works: the kids are given an ID card to swipe each time they purchase lunch, which then sends the info to the selected site. Its that easy. "Parents can log on to the site and can see of a child picked ice cream instead of yogurt."

I'm all for getting kids to make better food choices, but I think this has gone a little too far. There's nothing wrong with having a snack once in a while such as ice cream, as long as you dont have it everyday. I think parents and administrators of schools are getting a little out of control with this. It's important to teach kids how to eat and whats healthy, but you also don't want to send them the wrong message by saying you can never have a snack that you enjoy.

Weighing in on the Model Industry

First of all, let me tell you. After reading this article from stylelist.com, I was so tempted to reach through the computer to the picture of Karl Lagerfeld and ring his neck. Here's my take on the modeling industry and on Lagerfeld's RIDICULOUS opinion...

According to the article "Karl Lagerfeld Defends Skinny Models-'No One Wants to See Round Women' How You Voted," Karl Lagerfeld, famously known for losing 92 pounds in 13 months "in order to squeeze into skinny Dior Homme duds," are defending the stick-thin runway models, basically telling heavier women to shut their mouth about the issue. While being interviewed by Brigitte, a German magazine, Lagerfeld commented that Brigette's plan on using "ordinary, realistic" women on the runway was "absurd." According to him, women complaining about these unhealthy models are just jealous.

Yeah...where to start. I guess I should start by saying I'm a recovering anorexic and these stick thin models certaintly isnt a good influence. Women are just jealous????? REALLY?! How about the fact that maybe they're concerned about the images these models are sending their daughters!! And the fact that Lagerfeld is also denying the fact that most models have eating disorders is dispicable. He's a designer..im sure he's heard of the many models that have DIED of anorexia. Most models are SICK!. Yes, some of them are built super skinny, but most of them are close to having heart failure! Ugh, I'm getting sick to my stomach just reading his comments. ""Ninety percent of them are quite normal, properly proportioned girls with less fat and more muscles, who also eat pizzas and burgers." So thats why their ribs are protruding right??? Wow.

As being a rocovering anorexic, I am ELATED to see that magazines such as Glamour are putting REAL looking girls in their magazine. Because thats the norm! People don't look like runway models in real life! You know why? Because most of them are dying. It's such a good feeling to see an average looking model, with hey! some curves.

"Today's models weigh around 23% less than normal women. The whole model industry is anorexic. We will show women who have their own identity, the 18-year-old A-level student, the company chairwoman, the musician, the footballer," says Andreas Lebert, Brigette's editor.

"I have had sex with women who work for me on this show." If you haven't already heard, these were the words that came out of David Letterman's mouth on Thursday night. However, the question is, was it "innocent" or sexual harrassment?

According to CBS, they're biggest concern is that Letterman's comment will bring down his ratings, just when he is beginning to soar in popularity. Stephanie Birkitt, one of Letterman's assistants, is one of the women he reportedly had an affair with. However, Robert Joel Halderman, who shares a residence with Ms. Birkitt, recently pleaded not guilty to larceny after threatening to expose Letterman. In any case, CBS executives will continue to support Letterman unless he causes to do something drastic. As fas as CBS is concerned, none of the women were underage, nor did they feel threatened by Letterman.

According to a source, Letterman wanted to go right to authorities because he appeared to be worried. According to a spokesman from Letterman's production company, Worldwide Pants, "Dave is not in violation of our policy and no one has ever raised a complaint against him." He also added that the policy "does not prohibit relationships within the company- only that they cannot be tied to an employee's performance."

But you have to wonder: how do his fans feel about this scandal? Honestly, in my opinion, it's Letterman's issue. The only reason why his personal information is out in the limelight is because he's a celebrity. If it was just an average person, obviously, that person wouldnt have any publicity. As long as he didn't break any contracts or policies, I don't think its that big of an issue...unless you're a die hard fan of him and his talk show. And I think that Robert Thompson, a professor of popular culture at Syracuse University, sums it up: "His core viewers are not the kind that are going to say, 'He did what? I'm never going to watch again.' He was not the host of a Disney Channel talk show."