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Clinton wins crackdown on school junk food
MSNBC ^ | 10/06/2006

Posted on 10/06/2006 3:57:54 PM PDT by Panerai

5 major food companies agree to snack guidelines that would ban Snickers

Snacks sold in schools will have less fat, sugar and salt under the latest crackdown on junk food won by former President Clinton.

Just five months after a similar agreement targeting the sale of sodas in schools, Clinton and the American Heart Association announced a deal Friday with several major food companies to make school snacks healthier — the latest assault on the nation’s childhood obesity epidemic.

“This is voluntary,” Clinton said. “They don’t have to do it. But they recognize the challenge we face, and they are helping us face the first step.”

Clinton said the obesity problem is hurting the American economy by contributing to high health care costs.

The agreement with Kraft Foods Inc., Mars Inc., Campbell Soup Co., Groupe Danone SA and PepsiCo Inc. sets guidelines for fat, sugar, sodium and calories for snack foods sold in school vending machines, stores and snack bars. Those companies make everything from M&M’s, yogurt and granola bars to Frito-Lay potato chips, Snickers bars and canned soups.

Under the guidelines, most foods won’t be permitted to derive more than 35 percent of their calories from fat and more than 10 percent from saturated fat. There will be a limit of 35 percent for sugar content by weight.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: clinton; fatboy; foodpolice; impeachedrapist; ineedsomethingtodo; nannystate; schools; snackfood; statesman
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To: Gabz

Sounds like a plan........


41 posted on 10/06/2006 4:46:00 PM PDT by 383rr (Those who choose security over liberty deserve neither- GUN CONTROL=SLAVERY)
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To: 383rr

That sounds GREAT.

Alas, Hershey has gone the PC route.........I received a box of hershey's dark chocolate that actually has a warning on the package........


42 posted on 10/06/2006 4:47:44 PM PDT by Gabz (Taxaholism, the disease you elect to have (TY xcamel))
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To: veronica

Yech! We should also ban claws, and sew mouths shut--- for their own good.

43 posted on 10/06/2006 4:48:05 PM PDT by melt (Someday, they'll wish their Jihad... Jihadn't.)
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To: Panerai

Why Is Bill Clinton involved in this? Good grief, I am sure glad I don't have to go to school anymore. I am sure the Snickers company just loves him. Bill Clinton, Mr. Big Mac is suddenly a food nazi! Who'd of thunk it?


44 posted on 10/06/2006 4:48:06 PM PDT by ladyinred
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To: Gabz

You're kidding???!!!!!

Good Lord, is nothing sacred?


45 posted on 10/06/2006 4:48:50 PM PDT by 383rr (Those who choose security over liberty deserve neither- GUN CONTROL=SLAVERY)
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To: Gabz
Good thinking!

You could send her with a plastic container of flat pop!

Wait, wait, we really have to draw a line at how much we can expect our kids to do for the conservative cause. Drinking flat pop would suck.

!!!

Send her with a container of wine.
2 a day is good for you after all.

;-)

46 posted on 10/06/2006 4:49:06 PM PDT by fanfan ("We don't start fights my friends, but we finish them, and never leave until our work is done."PMSH)
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To: Panerai
Let's feed them spinach, right Bill?

This is probably a good idea but those kids getting a "free" (tax payer-supplied) lunch that I personally know are waifs.

47 posted on 10/06/2006 4:49:18 PM PDT by newzjunkey (Support Arnold-McClintock or embrace high taxes, gay weddings with Angelides.)
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To: Panerai

He just won't go away! He's like herpes on America.


48 posted on 10/06/2006 4:49:59 PM PDT by jslade (The beatings well cease when morale improves!)
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To: 383rr

I kid you not.

I don't have it in front of me but it was something along the line of the same antioxidents contained in tea and certain fruits are also in this candy, but like most indulgences they should be eaten in moderation.

But the funny thing is what they consider to be moderation..one serving is 4 pieces. This stuff is EXTRA dark chocolate and as much as I adore dark chocolate, 2 at a time is my limit, they are so rich.


49 posted on 10/06/2006 4:54:13 PM PDT by Gabz (Taxaholism, the disease you elect to have (TY xcamel))
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To: Panerai
AlGore & AlGore III:


50 posted on 10/06/2006 4:55:09 PM PDT by newzjunkey (Support Arnold-McClintock or embrace high taxes, gay weddings with Angelides.)
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To: GretchenM
I was hoping this might mean that all public schools would no longer be allowed to display pictures of 41 or his WINO.

What do you have against George H. W. Bush?

51 posted on 10/06/2006 4:57:02 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (De inimico non loquaris sed cogites)
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To: fanfan

She won't drink flat pop and when I'm cooking I have to wait until she's out of the kitchen to add wine to anything, she thinks it's gross...........

When the reasoning behind the soda ban in school was explained to me, it made perfect sense. They're not beig PC, just practical.


52 posted on 10/06/2006 4:59:19 PM PDT by Gabz (Taxaholism, the disease you elect to have (TY xcamel))
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To: Gabz
Shh! Bill, listen closely...
Hear that? yes, great wisdom from beyond the grave...


"There is a guilty conscience behind every brazen word and act and behind every manifestation of self-righteousness."

________________________________________ Eric Hoffer 1902-1983
53 posted on 10/06/2006 5:00:09 PM PDT by the final gentleman
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To: Canticle_of_Deborah

They're contraband at our high schools! Verboten!!! No candy, chips, cookies or cokes...everything has to be healthy by The State's definition of "healthy."


54 posted on 10/06/2006 5:00:22 PM PDT by bannie (HILLARY: Not all perversions are sexual.)
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To: ladyinred
Clinton has learned the Jacksonian art of the shakedown.

Get companies in line with 'Rats, or else...
55 posted on 10/06/2006 5:00:38 PM PDT by Bars4Bill (IslamoLogic: If you call me violent I will kill you.)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

OH MY GOSH! I apologize to the world for typing in 41 !!!!

Thank you, Harmless.

I MEANT BUBBA J. CLINTON AND HIS WINO,
NOT

George Herbert Walker Bush!!!!!!!!


56 posted on 10/06/2006 5:00:46 PM PDT by GretchenM (What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his soul? Please meet my friend, Jesus.)
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To: GretchenM
LOL I figured that is what happened. :)
57 posted on 10/06/2006 5:03:42 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (De inimico non loquaris sed cogites)
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To: Panerai

Get lost, Bill!


58 posted on 10/06/2006 5:09:26 PM PDT by popdonnelly
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To: Gabz
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59 posted on 10/06/2006 5:11:02 PM PDT by 383rr (Those who choose security over liberty deserve neither- GUN CONTROL=SLAVERY)
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To: veronica

Monica thinks she's something? Watch this!


60 posted on 10/06/2006 5:11:19 PM PDT by popdonnelly
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