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(CBS) In California it's still legal to sell cupcakes, cookies and brownies in a bakery ... but not at a school bake sale. That fundraising slice of Americana - loaded with sugar and fat - has been banned in California schools by government order, reports CBS News correspondent John Blackstone. At Piedmont High School, principal Randall Booker has enforced a zero tolerance policy for what used to be a campus tradition. "I love the bake sales," he said. "I eat them myself. But there are state laws that we just have to abide by." To combat the epidemic of childhood...

FEBRUARY 1--Mississippi legislators this week introduced a bill that would make it illegal for state-licensed restaurants to serve obese patrons.

My local liquor store is selling Girl Scout cookies, and last week I chose Thin Mints over gin, thinking myself quite virtuous. Little did I know… According to MeMe Roth, who is the head (and may be the sole member) of National Action Against Obesity: Girl Scouts have an economic, medical and moral imperative to dump junk food as their $700 million fundraising source….Girl Scout Cookies are high-calorie, high-sugar, high in saturated fat and nearly devoid of nutrition. Using young girls as a front to push millions of cookies onto an already bloated population further exacerbates an alarming [obesity] crisis,...