Under an agreement reached last week between Bill Clinton’s foundation and America’s soft drink giants, non-diet sugary pop such as Coke and Pepsi will no longer be available in the nation’s elementary, middle and high schools.
True, it’s nothing more than a small step in the fight against this nation’s growing childhood obesity crisis — but that’s OK. If the nation is serious about tackling this complex problem, then actions such as these are at least part of the solution.
Upgrading the food and beverage offerings at schools is not a trivial effort, considering that’s where children spend a majority of their developing lives.
Schools should be providing healthy options and encouraging students to think about the food choices they make. This sends the welcome message that student health is at least as important as raising money for the pep band.
Posted by Randy Scholfield
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Could someone explain to me exactly how the likes of the Clinton foundation or any other special interest foundation have the right or authority to broker deals that dictate how independent school boards operate their districts or what can be sold in them?
The only reason Coke and Pepsi were allowed in schools in the first place was to get a cut from the profits to fund the schools.
Coke and Pepsi and the other means of commercial exploitation of the public schools are well outed. Our schools should not be “markets” for a product. If we fund the schools properly this will not be necessarry.
I wonder if that slimy bastard clinton owns shares in a company that produces artificial sweeteners?????
V.L.R.B!!
Ybs,It’s called power, and Washington cares little about what or who funds schools as long as they remain in power. In a perfect society, the Clinton Foundation wouldn’t even exist, let alone broker deals with major sugar freaks. It is something both the state and federal idiots should have taken care of a long time ago. In fact, it should never have happened in the first place, as JR so rightly said.
Ahh the Clinton legacy, school uniforms, stained blue dresses and soda pop. Inspiring.
So can safely assume that everybody agrees that coke and pepsi should not be allowed, and absolutely no one has any idea how a special interest group has the authority to dictate what and what is not sold in the schools of independent communities?
What’s wrong with the horrible food we were offerd in the cafeteria when I was growing up? It was great encouragment to cut calories from our diet. We had milk at lunch and water fountains to drink from when we were thirsty. We had recess twice a day and gym class in addition to that. As far as I can remember, there was one kid in my elementary school that was overweight. When did we decide it was OK for kids to snack all day long and drink pop everytime they get thirsty? I remember some Europeans remarking one time that pop was “American water”. Therein lies the problem, we look at junk food as a neccesity in our diets rather than an occasional treat.And if we really want to help our kids, we need to shut off the TVs, video games, and computers, make them get off their butts and become more physically active.
Its funny I guy named blow brought up the blue dress
In my growing up years in a nearby farm community in the 1950’s, our schools didn’t have a cafeteria. In grade school and junior high, we took our lunches — peanut butter/jelly sandwiches, an apple or orange, and milk or perhaps water in a thermos bottle. Soft drinks in those days were only for special occasions. During the lunch hour, the lunchroom teacher would quiz us on arithmetic, geography and spelling. Most high school graduates from there went on to college or military.
I don’t recall any overweight kids in our schools in those days.