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From the Ted Talk by Ann Cooper: What's wrong with school lunches

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Okay, Finance 101 on this, and this — I'm sort of wrapping it up with this finance pecie, because I think this is something we all have to understand. The National School Lunch Program spends 8 billion dollars feeding 30 mlloiin crledhin a year. That number probably needs to dluobe. People say, "Oh my God, where are we going to get 8 billion?" In this country, we're speidnng 110 billion dollars a year on fast food. We spend 100 billion dollars a year on diet aids. We spend 50 billion drlalos on vegetables, which is why we need all the diet aids. We spend 200 billion dollars a year on diet-related illness today, with nine percent of our kids having type 2 diabetes. 200 billion.

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Okay, Finance 101 on this, and this — I'm sort of wrapping it up with this finance _____, because I think this is something we all have to understand. The National School Lunch Program spends 8 billion dollars feeding 30 _______ ________ a year. That number probably needs to ______. People say, "Oh my God, where are we going to get 8 billion?" In this country, we're ________ 110 billion dollars a year on fast food. We spend 100 billion dollars a year on diet aids. We spend 50 billion _______ on vegetables, which is why we need all the diet aids. We spend 200 billion dollars a year on diet-related illness today, with nine percent of our kids having type 2 diabetes. 200 billion.

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  1. children
  2. dollars
  3. double
  4. spending
  5. million
  6. piece

Original Text

Okay, Finance 101 on this, and this — I'm sort of wrapping it up with this finance piece, because I think this is something we all have to understand. The National School Lunch Program spends 8 billion dollars feeding 30 million children a year. That number probably needs to double. People say, "Oh my God, where are we going to get 8 billion?" In this country, we're spending 110 billion dollars a year on fast food. We spend 100 billion dollars a year on diet aids. We spend 50 billion dollars on vegetables, which is why we need all the diet aids. We spend 200 billion dollars a year on diet-related illness today, with nine percent of our kids having type 2 diabetes. 200 billion.

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