Obesity in children is an issue throughout North America and the habits that you learn when you are young are the ones that will carry through to adulthood. Bill Clinton has brokered a deal through his organization to have all schools offering healthier snacks by going through the manufacturers of the snack food themselves. This is a great good news story.
Just five months after a similar agreement targeting the sale of sodas in schools, Bill 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.
“By working with schools and industry to implement these guidelines, we are helping to give parents peace of mind that their kids will be able to make healthier choices at school,” said Dr. Raymond Gibbons, president of the heart association.
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 .
Gibbons said Thursday the guidelines are based on the recommendations of leading scientists “as to what we should be doing to provide more nutritious foods for our kids.”
Charles Nicolas, a spokesman for PepsiCo, which owns Frito-Lay and Quaker, said Frito-Lay already has products that meet the guidelines, such as baked potato chips and reduced-sugar chewy bars.
“We’re going to change a few recipes so that more snacks meet those guidelines as well,” he said.
Kraft said in a statement that it would add the sodium and calorie caps to its nutrition guidelines “and extend these guidelines to include all of our competitive foods sold in schools.”
The William J. Clinton Foundation teamed up with the heart association to form the Alliance for a Healthier Generation in 2005. The alliance was formed to combat childhood obesity, which has been blamed for an increase in early-onset diabetes and other ills. In May, the alliance announced an agreement with beverage industry leaders to sell only water, unsweetened juice and low-fat and nonfat milk in elementary and middle schools. Diet sodas and sports drinks are still being sold in high schools.
Officials said that agreement covered 87 percent of the soft drink market in public and private schools. Bob Harrison, executive director of the alliance, said the snack-food industry is not as concentrated as the beverage industry, so the reach of this agreement will not be as wide as the earlier one. But he said the five companies participating in the new agreement are market leaders and their influence will be felt.
THIS IS JUST WRONG THE KIDS NEED TO LOUSE WEAT WERE ALL FAT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THANK U!!!!!!!!
junkfood should b banned.period
i think that it should cause i dont want to become fat and i think it shouldn’t cause i looooooovvvvvvveeeeee junk food!
IT IS WRONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i needed to right a report on this so thank you, it was very helpful! (:
same here thanks guys=)
I dont care but i am doin this for debate and i got put on the against side so i have to say it shouldnt b aloud….soooooo…ya!
Hey guys and girls I have a debate about this and i am against banning food in schools so can u ppl guve me both facts and oppions on this plz
Thanks
Brianna
i think junhould be banned
1) Obesity in kids is getting rediculous.
2) They are getting rid of PE or only having it once a week and that is about the only physical activity some kids have and they cant burn off the calories
3)They should learn to eat healthier when they are young
4) Some kids that is all they eat from schools during breakfast and lunch. And that will hurt them in the long run either by medical problems, or even deathk
I totally agree withu
I don’t let my daughter eat a lot of junk foods…I’d rather prepare her a healthy and delicious snacks than give her junk foods.
I think that as long as we are providing children with the quality foods (meaning no antibiotics, pesticides and other chemicals) it is not very important what kind of diet they are. Even if the child will eat the whole big cake made from farm milk and organic fruits it will not really harm the child.
Meanwhile most of the Manhattan Schools already changed foods available for lunch. Most of the schools do not carry any sodas, just water and vitamin water. (Southside School in Queens) no hot dogs, French-fries or burgers, chose of the salads and fruits, organic chicken and nuts and granola bars….
Okay , junk food seems to be a huge issue with whether it should be banned in schools or not , right ? Well , honestly , and this is just my opinion , no one has the right answer. Sure , junk food is bad for you and it can be ‘one’ of the reasons kids are getting over the adverage limit , but that’s their choice. No one is forcing them to eat it.They could exercise too , but they don’t cause no one forces them to. No one really knows which way is better and again honestly , no one is right or wrong because there are two different sides to it with a million different kind of reason for each. I am 13 years old and I am able to watch what i eat. Just stop fighting over it and take control of what you eat. It’s not that hard !
junk food is a choice…its not there right to take away this vending machines….if your child is getting bigger than the average of a child then that’s the parents problem…n you need to handle it yourself…
OMG junk food should and shouln’t be banned from schools b/c like in middle schools the kids should be old enough to make their own decisions and if they want to eat junk food and not excercise then obviously they want to get fat.! 🙂
JUNK FOOD SHOULD NOT BE BANNED 🙂
I agree junk food should be ban from public school. Vendor machines should be replaced by a school cafetaria that will serve healthier full meal. Those who complain of being fat…nobody actually forced you to eat all that junk food you ate it because you wanted to eat it so take the responsability for it.
stupid ass
I NEED TO LOOSE 30 POUNDS IM FAT JUST BECAUSE THE JUNK FOOD IT NEEDS TO BE BANNED IN ALL SCHOOLS
It would be great to see Junk Food banned in all schools. There is definitely a push in many places to get rid of junk food and pop in a lot of places.
Lets hope it is successful
could you banned junk food from schools
all you are in the head well most of you are JUNK FOOD SHULD NOT BE BANNED i thin people are responsible for what they put in their mouth so there it is !!!!!!!!!!
in your faces 😛
I think that limiting junk food is good but at the same time junk food is not the only cause of obesity. Kids need exercise and a healthy diet and parents should implement that. I think if parents took a firmer stand on what their kids ate and how much exercise they got this epidemic would not be as wide spread.
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