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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Although the intended result is a noble one, it won't work. Exercise will work though. Yet, these McDonald's kids would rather sit in front of a video game all evening.
It won't work because the problem is the artificial sweeteners, not sugar
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/06/040630081825.htm
Now a days, you have much more the 2 income family.. or you have the single mother.. than you have the 1 income family where the mother is housewife and mother and can tell you everything that goes on.
In my day, no way the school lunches could fly the way they do today, with nearly everything being pre-processed junk. Lunch rooms actually made lunches, not just heated up crap.
Soup and Sandwhiches.... Turkey and Gravy, Roast Beef, potatoes, green beans, carrots, fruit cup... etc etc etc..
Now a days its Cheesburger, Chicken Fries, Stuffed Breadsticks.... etc etc etc.. its completely crap... and most parents couldn't even tell you about it.
Yes there are 2 income families that are involved and know whats going on... but there are more than arent, and with single parent homes being more and more common... What's for lunch is so far down the list of priorities that its not even on the radar.
Fed really needs to be held to task for their nutritional requirements for school lunches...and local school boards need to be seriously be taken to the shed for crap they are pumping kids full of.
You can find the money to send your administrators to conferences in Vegas... or for that new 50k Jumbotron on your Athletic field.. but you can't find the money to feed the kids a proper meal? I don't think so.
LOL - smart kid!
Socialist!
Schools yes, but there also has to be cooperation from the parents/guardians. If you don't have the families involved, any effort from schools and/or government will fail.
I'm amazed at how much the schools have changed since my 83 graduation. There was no crap served in the cafeteria. Nobody left the building without permission and nobody left the grounds.
On the flipside a gun could be brought to school as long as it was checked in and left at the principals office. (rural school with lots of hunters) For the kids that drove a gun was OK as long as it never left the vehicle.
What, did they run out of smokers to persecute or something?
fructose can be turned into fat without limitation. As opposed to glucose - you need to have certain enzymes available in your liver to have this stuff turned into fat - after a certain turn over the enzym is not available anymore or blocked - then you can go on throwing sugar down your neck but it wouldn't be turned into fat - but into CO2 wich can be very embarassing.
Not s with fructose - more coke more fat.
Is there a website that lists HFCS-free foods?
I hope they find it's water - since these things might not have been used for a whole while it might be worse stuff in there.
The larger issue is, families and parents AREN'T involved... which generally leads to actions like this law... If parents made it a priority that Little Johnny or Little Susie didn't eat 4k calories a day on their own, you wouldn't see this sort of stuff go on. Of course nowadays with welfare increasing dependency class folks who can't even take care of themselves now having multiple children.. it leaves little choice but for other bodies to unfortunately step in.
Now, with that said, I do agree with another poster here that High Fructose Corn Syrup is a plague on the country... and frankly, if the fed wants to ban something... or limit its use and availability in foods.. this is one product that DEFINATELY should be... It causes all sorts of health problems.. and its in virtually everything anymore.
I also think that there is no doubt that kids tend to be fatter today... and there are a lot of underlying reasons.. but no doubt easy access to cheap sweet high calorie foods is part of the problem. The intentional and neverending marketing of these sorts of products to kids as well..
Go to a little league game in most of america today.. and just watch.. nearly every kid on the bench will have a 20 or 24 oz Gatorade, or PowerAde... while perhaps better than Soda in terms of calories.. its only marginally better... and sure as hell can't compete with Water... and for that level of activity brings NOTHING to the table for them... yet if you talk to them nearly every last one of em will tell you its better for them... which its not.
Many parents are FAILING their kids on this particular topic, because its easier to just let it go... well guess what folks, its not. When your kids got hypertention at 30, its not easier.
availablity ...
so I take it your not opposing cigarett automats and condom dispensers in schools either ?
and how about weed ? Cocain ?
You can get it eveywhere - why not in school - hu ?
I graduated in 89.. and my last year or two of HS the crap was starting to be available... not nearly to the extent it is now... But it was still at the Upper Grade Levels... now its all the way down to the gradeschools... where lunch literally is NACHO's with MEAT and CHEESE.. and a fruit cup.. and that's the meal...
Its insane.
Not only is this stupid, they still allow for DIET sodas.
I thought Neutrasweet was bad for the brain?
Do they allow sacraine?
Will they still allow carbonated drinks? (all those free radicals)
What about fructose/sucrose corn syrup?
Last time I checked very little sugar cane sugar was used in soft drinks...
I agree. I believe these drinks are a big culprit in the obesing (is that a word?) of America.
There is a very small Dr. Pepper plant in Dublin, Texas, that still makes Dr. Pepper with cane sugar. It's to-die-for.
worse than that...
Parents are activly discouraged and BLOCKED from being involved in school affairs.
Administrations see good parenting especially dangerous to their ability to administer as they see fit.
they went after BIG tobacco and won millions for lawyers
Now they go after
BIG gunmakers
BIG cheesburger
BIG beer
and now
BIG Soda Pop!!!
Just wait for the truth commercial and teh deadly soda pop product.
Next they will force all school menus to be moslem vegitarian compliant with non floridated water.
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