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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: Panerai

I love this. Will be a constant reminder to kids that Democrats are the Party of Evil and home of the National Nanny.

YES!


61 posted on 10/06/2006 5:22:32 PM PDT by freespirited (A government big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away.- Barry Goldwater)
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To: BenLurkin
How can we miss him if he won't go away?

We just can't get RID of these people!  ugh!

62 posted on 10/06/2006 5:24:06 PM PDT by SheLion ("If you're legal, you can fly with the Eagle!" - Michael Anthony)
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To: Panerai

Wow, this will add to his great legacy. Along with school uniforms, midnight basketball and hunting down terrorist with lawyers. What a genius.


63 posted on 10/06/2006 5:27:46 PM PDT by dancusa (For liberals there is no end to their rights and no beginning to their responsibilities.)
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To: Gabz
Tomorrow I'm giong to buy a package of snickers and pack them in my daughter's lunch on Monday..........LOL!!!

Good for you!!!!  And buy 10 and have your daughter had them out to her best friends.  LOL

What a crock.  Always some group out there trying to tell us how to live our lives.

And that damn Klintoon.  He sure has one hellava nerve!


64 posted on 10/06/2006 5:28:10 PM PDT by SheLion ("If you're legal, you can fly with the Eagle!" - Michael Anthony)
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To: Panerai

Anything to get himself in an environment with young girls.


65 posted on 10/06/2006 5:29:34 PM PDT by airborne (Show me your friends and I'll show you your future.)
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To: My2Cents

I'll buy Billy all the Big Macs he wants to eat,anytime -anyplace.


66 posted on 10/06/2006 5:45:24 PM PDT by Farmer Dean (Every time a toilet flushes,another liberal gets his brains.)
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To: SheLion
This is how I'd like to see that scumbag.... Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting
67 posted on 10/06/2006 5:50:53 PM PDT by 383rr (Those who choose security over liberty deserve neither- GUN CONTROL=SLAVERY)
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To: Panerai
Clinton wins crackdown on school junk food

Islamofascists are trying to kill every American they can and these assclowns are screwing around over banning Snickers from schools?

For cryin' out loud!

68 posted on 10/06/2006 6:05:52 PM PDT by Prime Choice (True Conservatives don't vote for Liberals just because they have an 'R' by their name.)
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To: newzjunkey
Careful. You might make AlGore go *boom*.


69 posted on 10/06/2006 6:07:50 PM PDT by Prime Choice (True Conservatives don't vote for Liberals just because they have an 'R' by their name.)
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To: SheLion

Candy is not prohibited in her school, there are no vending machines, but most teachers have it in the classrooms, it's available in the cafeteria at lunch, and from the school "store."

I only used the Snickers name because it was in the article. The only time they are in this house is if my husband buys them, I can't stand them. I buy Milky Ways, Kit Kats, and Butterfingers most of the time....and always in 10 packs at the Dollar store :) They're bigger than the "funsize" but smaller than a standard one, and I find them to be just the right size.


70 posted on 10/06/2006 6:15:03 PM PDT by Gabz (Taxaholism, the disease you elect to have (TY xcamel))
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To: 383rr

Yep, he certainly has done more than enough to merit a long sentence. But does anyone have the guts to prosecute him? Why is he above the law?


71 posted on 10/06/2006 6:22:55 PM PDT by justiceseeker93
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To: Panerai

To paraphrase Mark Levin on his radio show today, Clinton thinks he is doing great work to stop the "obesity epidemic." But he's never done a thing to stop the spread of syphilis!


72 posted on 10/06/2006 6:28:16 PM PDT by justiceseeker93
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To: 383rr
This is how I'd like to see that scumbag....

Like this???

  LOL

73 posted on 10/06/2006 6:52:27 PM PDT by SheLion ("If you're legal, you can fly with the Eagle!" - Michael Anthony)
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To: Gabz
I only used the Snickers name because it was in the article. The only time they are in this house is if my husband buys them, I can't stand them. I buy Milky Ways, Kit Kats, and Butterfingers most of the time....and always in 10 packs at the Dollar store :) They're bigger than the "funsize" but smaller than a standard one, and I find them to be just the right size.

I was trying to think of a way to thumb your nose at the system!  heh! :)

74 posted on 10/06/2006 6:53:51 PM PDT by SheLion ("If you're legal, you can fly with the Eagle!" - Michael Anthony)
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To: SheLion

Yeah, taht's the ticket!


75 posted on 10/06/2006 7:09:58 PM PDT by 383rr (Those who choose security over liberty deserve neither- GUN CONTROL=SLAVERY)
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To: justiceseeker93

"Why is he above the law?"

I don't know. The man is as slimy as a snake, and twice as slippery, it would seem. I'd love to see him get his just desserts.


76 posted on 10/06/2006 7:13:02 PM PDT by 383rr (Those who choose security over liberty deserve neither- GUN CONTROL=SLAVERY)
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To: Panerai

My understanding is that the schools that had coke and pepsi vending machines were paid thousands of dollars from those companies to have those machines. I am assuming Frito Lay and the candy distributors would have also paid $$$ to allow the vending machines to be in the schools. Question is, if this is true, how in the world are the school districts going to make up that money?


77 posted on 10/06/2006 7:45:07 PM PDT by mojo114
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To: bannie

I feel sorry, not for me, but for our kids.

But what do you expect from a guy who was quoted as saying "America is all about reducing teen smoking"...

Meanwhile he was shoving a cigar in Monica Lewinsky's "hey, nanny, nanner" while working for US, with our tax dollars, in the Oval Office.



78 posted on 10/06/2006 7:49:40 PM PDT by Eric Blair 2084 ("Government is not the solution to the problem; government is the problem."--Ronald Reagan)
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To: veronica; All

79 posted on 10/06/2006 8:23:12 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Why is the War on Terror being managed by the DEFENSE Department?)
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To: 383rr; Abram; albertp; AlexandriaDuke; Alexander Rubin; Allosaurs_r_us; Americanwolf; ...
The root problem, IMO, is government ownership of schools.





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80 posted on 10/06/2006 9:05:27 PM PDT by traviskicks (http://www.neoperspectives.com/Amnesty_From_Government.htm)
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