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Congress Set To Ban Soda, Junk Food From Schools
Snickers and Cokes would be a thing of the past at school cafeterias and vending machines if the Senate approves an ambitious amendment from Senators Harkin (D-IA) and Murkowsky (R-AK). The amendment to the Farm Bill would establish strict federal guidelines limiting the sale of deliciously unhealthy treats brimming with sugar, salt, and fat.The nutrition standards would allow only plain bottled water and eight-ounce servings of fruit juice or plain or flavored low-fat milk with up to 170 calories to be sold in elementary and middle schools. High school students could also buy diet soda or, in places like school gyms, sports drinks. Other drinks with as many as 66 calories per eight ounces could be sold in high schools, but that threshold would drop to 25 calories per eight-ounce serving in five years.More »
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Cereal Makers Target Kids, Evade Junk Food Advertising Ban
Crafty cereal makers may weasel out of their promise to stop advertising junk food to audiences under 12 by fudging serving size information. Eleven cereal makers last week set the threshold for products advertised to children at 12 grams of sugar per serving. According to the New York Times' original coverage, many cereal makers are already "trying to reformulate the foods to meet nutritional guidelines." Why reformulate when you can change the labels? More »
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Should We Unilaterally Ban Junk Food Advertising Targetting Children?
The New York Times reports that eleven huge food companies, in the face of regulatory intervention, lawsuits, and a forthcoming government study on childhood obesity, agreed to voluntarily withdraw junk food advertising from children's TV shows targeted at an under-12 audience.
But does it go far enough? TV is just one component of the advertising spectrum, and the industry's move won't apply to "family"-type shows.
Maybe we should treat treat junk food ads like cigarette ads...
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Put Down the Bag of Chips, and Drink From the Bottle of Oil
We're not sure what's more horrifying: The fact that half of British schoolchildren eat a pack of potato chips (or crisps, if you prefer) every single day, or the fact that such a rate of chip consumption means you're ingesting more than a gallon of vegetable oil every year. More »
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Why Does Ronald McDonald Hate Black Children?
The Chicago Sun Times reported on the exorbitant amount of fast and junk food advertisements that dominate black-oriented television networks like BET. They compared them against the junk food ads on the WB and the Disney Channel. Here are the results, for children's programming exclusively: More »
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