Margo Wootan
Margo Wootan
children concerns current date definition sync
The definition is out of date and out of sync with current nutritional concerns for children,
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Schools can make money without selling junk food.
nutrition standards
Disco-era nutrition standards don't make sense in 2006.
referring work
I work in this area, and I don't even know what some of those things are referring to.
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It's not enough any more for the government to publish dietary guidelines and point their finger at Americans and say, 'Eat better.' It takes more than that.
direction hard information moving
It's moving in the right direction, but too often the information is hard to find, and hard to use.
cancer children diabetes heart learn life prevent skills
It's as important for children to know how to prevent heart disease, cancer and diabetes as it is for children to learn geography, ... These are important life skills that are not intuitively obvious.
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The agency has done a good job with the official school lunch and could do a good job with all other food.
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It's impressive that Kraft was able to do two 100 percent whole-grain cookies.
address affect high means policy schools status
This means that the policy effectively does not address high schools at all because it won't affect the status quo.
food nutrition standards
This is the first acknowledgment by the F.T.C. that there should be nutrition standards for food that's marketed to kids.
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The money from soda contracts comes out of children's and parents' pockets. Coke, Pepsi, and other junk-food marketers enjoy being in schools because they know it is one of the only places they can target kids without parental interference.
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The gist of what it says is clear -- that companies are not marketing food responsibly to kids. They need to make changes.
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This is a good step toward reducing artery-clogging fat in french fries, but it doesn't make french fries a health food.