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Schwarzenegger urges that soda and junk food be banned in public schools
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...DGT7AQRRK1.DTL
EDITORIAL Banning junk food Tuesday, January 18, 2005 GOV. ARNOLD Schwarzenegger and the California Legislature should be able to agree on at least one thing: getting rid of junk food in the schools. Schwarzenegger last week criticized the Legislature for sending him a bill last year that he vetoed because it didn't go far enough. In a meeting with The Chronicle editorial board, he said the bill would have required schools to label junk foods, instead of eliminating them altogether. He implied the bill wasn't tougher because legislators were afraid to take on a food industry that promotes unhealthy products. "If you want to get rid of junk food, just pass a law that says you are not going to have any junk food in the schools ... because it is destroying our kids," he said. Such a law should tell schools "you are going to have to sell vegetables and fresh milk and water, no more Coca-Cola." Schwarzenegger seems to be ahead of the Legislature on this issue. In 2003, for example, the Legislature approved a bill eliminating sugar-laden sodas from school vending machines -- but only from elementary and middle schools, not high schools, where most unhealthy drinks are peddled. Schwarzenegger said when he was head of the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports 15 years ago, he found that almost every school he visited had vending machines filled with sodas and candy, or sold unhealthy foods such as doughnuts. He said attempts to eliminate these products would elicit protests from school officials who "will scream 'We're getting money from Coca-Cola for our sports programs.' " They should be told, he said, to "find the money somewhere else." Schwarzenegger's advocacy of a comprehensive ban on junk food in schools should give a boost to lawmakers such as Sens. Gloria Romero, D-Los Angeles, and Martha Escutia, D-Whittier, who have encountered industry resistance to even the most modest proposals to regulate food in school. The governor and legislators should work together in crafting legislation that will put California at the forefront of promoting healthier eating habits, beginning in our schools. Page B - 6 |
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"Steve and/or Erin" wrote: Good for him! Personally, I think it's kind of funny that a Republican -- the party that says it's for smaller government and accussed Democrats of wanting to play nanny to everyone in the country -- is advocating more rules, in order to protect us from our own decisions. Wouldn't it make more sense to just let the scientific evidence speak for itself, and turn the decisions about what is and isn't available in school lunchrooms over to the school districts themselves? At least, if you favor smaller government and making people responsible for their own choices? -- Children won't care how much you know until they know how much you care |
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dragonlady wrote: In article , "Steve and/or Erin" wrote: Good for him! Personally, I think it's kind of funny that a Republican -- the party that says it's for smaller government and accussed Democrats of wanting to play nanny to everyone in the country -- is advocating more rules, in order to protect us from our own decisions. Wouldn't it make more sense to just let the scientific evidence speak for itself, and turn the decisions about what is and isn't available in school lunchrooms over to the school districts themselves? At least, if you favor smaller government and making people responsible for their own choices? I found it ironic he said the schools should find the money somewhere else. Where??? The reason junk food is sold in schools is because they are struggling for money. Give them more money from the gov't, then they won't need to make up for it with junk food sales and programs sponsored by advertising. jen |
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dragonlady writes:
In article , Personally, I think it's kind of funny that a Republican -- the party that says it's for smaller government and accussed Democrats of wanting to play nanny to everyone in the country -- is advocating more rules, in order to protect us from our own decisions. I think the real issue is that, when you're hungry, you eat whatever in the vending machine is least expensive, even if that food is pretty awful. A lot of times, the "healthy" food in vending machines consists of stale sandwiches and prefab peanut butter crackers with a ton of artificial ingredients in them. I think the only way to change what's in the vending machines is to have a government agency or a huge customer go to the vending machine company and force it to put things like raisins, bags of plain peanuts, bags of yoghurt-covered raisins, etc. in the vending machine. Otherwise, even if that's what all the students really wanted to eat, that type of food would never end up in the machines. |
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Al Bell wrote: dragonlady writes: In article , Personally, I think it's kind of funny that a Republican -- the party that says it's for smaller government and accussed Democrats of wanting to play nanny to everyone in the country -- is advocating more rules, in order to protect us from our own decisions. I think the real issue is that, when you're hungry, you eat whatever in the vending machine is least expensive, even if that food is pretty awful. A lot of times, the "healthy" food in vending machines consists of stale sandwiches and prefab peanut butter crackers with a ton of artificial ingredients in them. I think the only way to change what's in the vending machines is to have a government agency or a huge customer go to the vending machine company and force it to put things like raisins, bags of plain peanuts, bags of yoghurt-covered raisins, etc. in the vending machine. Otherwise, even if that's what all the students really wanted to eat, that type of food would never end up in the machines. There are no vending machines in DD10's grade school. In DD12's middle school, there are two. One serves nothing but bottled water. The other has ice cream bars. In the first week, DD12 spent her allowance money to have an ice cream bar at lunch every day. Finally I sat her down and asked her to think it through - how many calories in that ice cream bar? Is this going to be good for your face, which is starting to get acne? What would be a reasonable amount of ice cream bars in a month? She decided one a week as a treat and has kept to that (at least to my knowledge!!). jen |
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"shinypenny" wrote in message oups.com... Al Bell wrote: dragonlady writes: In article , Personally, I think it's kind of funny that a Republican -- the party that says it's for smaller government and accussed Democrats of wanting to play nanny to everyone in the country -- is advocating more rules, in order to protect us from our own decisions. I think the real issue is that, when you're hungry, you eat whatever in the vending machine is least expensive, even if that food is pretty awful. A lot of times, the "healthy" food in vending machines consists of stale sandwiches and prefab peanut butter crackers with a ton of artificial ingredients in them. I think the only way to change what's in the vending machines is to have a government agency or a huge customer go to the vending machine company and force it to put things like raisins, bags of plain peanuts, bags of yoghurt-covered raisins, etc. in the vending machine. Otherwise, even if that's what all the students really wanted to eat, that type of food would never end up in the machines. There are no vending machines in DD10's grade school. In DD12's middle school, there are two. One serves nothing but bottled water. The other has ice cream bars. In the first week, DD12 spent her allowance money to have an ice cream bar at lunch every day. Finally I sat her down and asked her to think it through - how many calories in that ice cream bar? Is this going to be good for your face, which is starting to get acne? What would be a reasonable amount of ice cream bars in a month? She decided one a week as a treat and has kept to that (at least to my knowledge!!). jen When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. Good for you. You are smart, and I love the way you are with your DD. I guess they call this a "teachable moment." |
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Is this going to be good for your face, which is starting to get
acne? Junk food does not give you acne.. the rest was a good point though. Tori -- Bonnie 3/20/02 Xavier 10/27/04 |
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