• Pauline Liu: Food police should take lesson from Prohibition
• The debate about public school lunches is simmering.     •
email print   • The debate about public school lunches is
simmering.     A YouTube video by Kansas teens and the lunch
strikes orchestrated by students in New Jersey and Wisconsin are
but a memory now.     After all the media hoopla, the federal
Healthy Hunger-free Kids Act at the center of the controversy
remains intact. So does the 850-calorie cap on lunches, which
took effect with the start of the school year.     Teenagers,
especially athletes who burn up more than 3,000 calories a day,
complain the shrunken meals continue to leave them hungering for
more.     As Congress prepares to consider a repeal of the law,
here's some food for thought. The Obama administration needs to
take a page out of history and realize prohibition doesn't work.
First lady Michelle Obama's misguided initiative to fight
childhood obesity is a form of Prohibition.     With one-third
of American kids overw