Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Junk food schools

  • Flamin' Hot Cheetos banned at some Pasadena schools

    The Pasadena Unified School District has eliminated candy and junk food at elementary school campuses and limited such snacks for older students.

    latimesblogs.latimes.com

  • 20% of school-going children in India overweight due to junk food: CSE

    Director of Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) Sunita Narain said that junk food should be banned in schools, as the first step to push school authorities towards healthier and more nutritious options for our children. She also recommends banning ...

    timesofindia.indiatimes.com

  • Retired military leaders want junk foods out of schools

    Mission: Readiness, a group of more than 300 retired generals and admirals, is releasing a new report today saying that the 40% of students who buy high-calorie, low-nutrient junk food from school vending machines and cafeteria a la carte lines consume ...

    www.freep.com

  • Junk the Junk Food: Celebrities support campaign to shun Junk Food in Schools

    The campaign aims at making people aware of what junk food does to the health of people in general and our children in particular and mobilise opinion to keep junk food out of school canteen menu." HNF Correspondent. Studies indicate that the incidence ...

    hotnhitnews.com

  • How junk food in schools affects the military

    Students consume almost 400 billion calories of junk food sold at school each year, according to the latest research by the Department of Agriculture.

    www.politico.com

  • Updating School Food, and Why Kids Aren't Lovin' It!

    We did not demand that the growing bodies of children we love be built from wholesome food and not junk; we did not insist that "sound mind, sound body" was right all along and find a way to fit physical activity back into our children's days, no ...

    www.huffingtonpost.com

  • Dad angry daughter spent $120 on junk food at school

    SAN DIEGO - A local father is angry his daughter's school allowed her to buy $120 worth of junk food at lunch, and he told 10News he's disappointed the school doesn't make sure she's eating healthy. Eleven-year-old Bernardo Heights Middle School ...

    www.turnto23.com

  • Junkfood Horror: How All Family Films Grow Up To Be Horror Movies

    As we sit on the front porch of Junkfood Labs, devouring bag after bag of "fun"-sized Snickers because the trick-or-treaters apparently won't be showing up for several hours, and several days, it occurred to us that there is really no getting away from ...

    www.filmschoolrejects.com

  • Junk Food Makes American Kids "Too Fat to Fight"

    Every year, 400 billion calories in junk food are sold in schools to kids. On any given day, 40 percent of students in elementary through high school consume an average of 130 calories from junk food they bought at school, which is around 5 to 10 ...

    www.care2.com

  • Uruguayan Schools Slowly Say Goodbye to Junk Food

    "We can't bring chips and those kinds of things to school anymore, and that's really good, because we're children and if we eat a lot of junk food we could get a disease now or when we're older," declared Luciano, a student at Public School 124 in ...

    www.ipsnews.net

  • Manchester school board member wonders: Are healthy lunches backfiring in ...

    MANCHESTER - A member of the Board of School Committee said serving healthier meals at lunch is driving students to eat more junk food just to fill up. New federal regulations for school lunches have taken effect, requiring a mix of health foods and ...

    www.newhampshire.com

  • Report: Junk Food In Schools Accounts For 400 Billion Calories Every Year

    If you side with "hungry" high schoolers and uninformed lawmakers who care about business more than the health of our kids, you may think that new regulations on school lunches, which are designed to to cut down on junk food, are just too nanny state-ish.

    blisstree.com

  • Junkfood Horror: W.O.C.K.A's Angry Response To 'Killer Klowns From Outer ...

    No, for those of me here at Junkfood Cinema October means a month-long celebration of the greatest holiday this side of the annual return of the McRib: Halloween.

    www.filmschoolrejects.com

  • Retired Military Leaders Call On Schools To Remove Junk Foods [AUDIO]

    Mission: Readiness, a group of more than 300 retired military officials recently released a report entitled, "Still Too Fat to Fight," which finds that 40 percent of students who buy high-calorie, low-nutrient junk food from school vending machines and ...

    nj1015.com

  • Junk food taken off the menu in UAE schools

    DUBAI // Fried meals and food high in sugar or salt will be off the menu for pupils at government schools as new health guidelines are introduced by the Ministry of Education this month.

    www.thenational.ae

  • Right Bites in CMS

    "To help conquer childhood obesity," Polo Ridge Elementary School Cafeteria Manager Nancy Somerville said. "By them eating fruits and vegetables and not so much junk food." Each week students will get to try a new fruit or vegetable. This week it was ...

    www.wbtv.com

  • Fast Food Study Participants At Washington University Gained Weight, As ...

    Participants in a Washington University School of Medicine fast food study packed on weight and health problems... which is sort of what we all saw coming, right?

    www.huffingtonpost.com

  • The Real School Food Heroes of San Francisco - Oct 09

    A highly-respected school board member of 20 years' standing, she has written more local school nutrition policy than anyone, including the 1999 Commercial-Free Schools Act which prevented junk food and soda companies from advertising to students at ...

    www.beyondchron.org

  • Retired generals say junk food is an issue of national security

    According to a new study, if all the junk food calories consumed by American school children in a year were added up, the sum would be the equivalent of 2 billion candy bars, which would weigh as much as the aircraft carrier Midway.

    blog.al.com

  • DOD Backs Efforts to Keep Junk Food Out of Schools

    Research shows that on any given day, 16 million children receive unhealthy snacks or beverages at school, amounting to 400 billion calories of low-nutrient, or "junk" food, sold in public schools annually, Myers said. "There is strong evidence that ...

    www.defense.gov

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