Excellent. A consortium of sugar beverage companies are yielding to pressure from anti-obesity advocates and will sell only bottled water or 100% juice during school hours in U.S. middle schools. Seeing as I'd rather see a 5th grader smoking marijuana than knocking back a liter of Mountain Dew (I'd prefer neither, of course), I consider this fantastic news.
The pop companies will still be able to peddle their crap during after school hours, but I have to think that eliminating lunch-time sales will do a lot for the health of American children. Hopefully, parents will have enough brains to put forth their own policies and not stock the worthless junk at home either.
Sunday, August 21, 2005
Good Health News
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Post a Comment