Why "think of the children" means thinking about food

TriplePundit has a guest blogger who offers up a (very) long treatise on the implications of diet on academic performance and health.

Conclusions? Watch out for processed foods and food additives. Corn gets put into almost everything - thanks to government subsidized production - and the prevalence of corn syrup and corn oil in just about everything means that we're nutritionally out of whack. It means a greater chance of various diseases and ailments as well as poorer school performance.