Posted on 05/03/2006 8:30:07 AM PDT by freespirited
The beverage industry is scheduled to announce today that it is voluntarily removing high-calorie soft drinks from all schools.
In an agreement to be announced by former president Bill Clinton, Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (R) and the head of the American Heart Association, the industry also will limit the amount of other sugary beverages, such as fruit drinks, in school vending machines. But diet soft drinks will continue to be sold in high schools that allow such products.
The agreement sets different rules for elementary schools, middle schools and high schools and comes at a time when the beverage industry is under increasing pressure to limit sales of its least healthful products in schools. Many local jurisdictions, including the District and Montgomery and Fairfax counties, have limited the sale of soda in school. Some state legislatures are also pressing for restrictions; last year, California passed a law banning soft drinks in school, effective next year.
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We had soda machines at my high school 25 years ago, but the school was not allowed to turn them on during the lunch hour.
Simple solution.
Bothers me a little that the headline uses the word "sugar". These drinks, though they still wouldn't be "nutritious", wouldn't be near as bad on kids' health (or our health for that matter), if they were made with actual sugar than with high fructose corn syrup. I don't fully understand it, but the body and its cells process hfcs differently than pure sugar. It's bad bad bad.
Well said. The elephant in the room isn't being addressed.
I thought Clinton was no longer the Pres. I know he has never been a leader; but do we have to listen to him trying to benefit and control everyone's life right down to the last little detail.
The only soda machine in my school was in the teachers lounge and that was off limits.
Opens up the "black market" for kids to sell sodas and candy to other kids. It is already happening. I would imagine they can make some pretty good money. Good economics lesson at least. Supply and demand.
Personally, I don't think ANY kid should be OFF-CAMPUS during school hours.....parents send them off in the morning to SCHOOL! Would solve LOTS of problems. But, then, I wouldn't send my kids to public school either....If I had it to do over again.
"We had soda machines at my high school 25 years ago, but the school was not allowed to turn them on during the lunch hour."
Lunch-time was the only time ours were open. I don't remember it making anyone fat, though.
Well, they can buy the soda outside of school hours is what I meant and simply bring them to school with them.
Precisely what I was thinking. These people are so arrogant that they believe they can interfere with the laws of supply and demand. But you are exactly right. Kids who are old enough and want sodas or fruit juice bad enough (which I suspect is a fairly large number) will find a way to get them. That is why I say it won't work.
Why have they singled out sodas and fruit juice? The idea that these items are singularly responsible for obesity or unique contibutors to them is **really** stupid.
Well, they can buy the soda outside of school hours is what I meant and simply bring them to school with them.
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Agreed. I live near a school bus stop. I see the kids at 7:00 in the morning with their bags of chips and bottles/cans of soda. That's their breakfast.
Wait till they find out whats in their drinking water and on their drinking fountains....
When I was a kid in grade school we had milk, water and that was it.
The big dessert was some frozen concoction called a "Sunshine Cup." Anyone recall that? We got them only on Fridays.
See my post #3 above. High fructose corn syrup didn't replace sugar in soda until the 70s.
Good grief.
Not familiar with "sunshine cup", but I always wonder how many TONS of carrot-raisin salad through the years were prepared and subsequently thrown away at my school. You could walk through the cafeteria, and even kids who normally cleaned their plates didn't eat it.
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