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Clinton proposes crack down on school junk food

Recently former Pres. Bill Clinton has proposed to schools in the U.S. that they start to lower their high fatty foods and replace them with healthier options. Clinton has made a deal with five major junk food providers to help kick start the trend in schools to have healthier options. Kraft Foods Inc., Mars Inc., Campbell Soup Co., Dannon and PepsiCo Inc., have all agreed to start and offer better choices.

The new rules for the health kick are that snacks for schools wouldn't get more than 35 percent of their calories from fat and more than 10 percent from saturated fat. There will also be a limit of 35 percent for sugar content by weight. This would mean that many snacks are baked instead of fried and anything with trans-fatty acids will be out.

I think that this is an excellent thing that Clinton is trying to start. Obesity in children in the United States is very high and this will help to lower those levels. I think that by having the major food corporations also be in on the "kick" will help kids to realize that soon the fatty/bad foods will be less and less in supermarkets, schools, and etc. Although being a student in school having to eat this food isn't always the best tasting. Maybe if companies try to make healthy but also good tasting snacks this would really help the Americans as a whole become healthier.


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posted by Anonymous @ 10/06/2006 11:11:00 PM