By Randy Paul of Beautiful Horizons
Today I had a medical procedure performed in the morning thatnecessitated my fasting from Sunday night at 9 p.m. until after theprocedure at about 10:30 Tuesday morning. Instead of taking a day offyesterday, I decided to go to work as I figured it would keep my mindoff of hunger.
Hah! Fat chance that! I was alright at work until about noon. Ifilled myself with fluids until I had to make the long walk to down thehallway that I refer to as the "Bladder Causeway" that leads to thebathroom. About 2 p.m. I was getting cranky. My usual cheery self wassnapping at people, I found that I couldn't concentrate as well asnormal and those trips up and down the stairs that I make with elanbetween the two floors my employer takes up were being punctuated with Lurch-like sighs and significantly slower ascents. The bagel I had to break my fast was positively ambrosial.
I can only imagine then, how difficult it must have been for needychildren to have accomplished much of anything before the advent ofboth the National School Lunch Act, and the Child Nutrition Act of 1966, which provided for subsidized lunches and breakfasts, respectively, for needy children. The former was signed into law by Harry Truman and the latter by Lyndon Johnson. Let's hope their need to exist will someday disappear.
