Sentences with phrase «junk food health»

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For Nestle, which first sold milk chocolate in the 1880s, a consumer shift away from junk and sugary foods has led the Swiss company to focus on «nutrition, health and wellness,» although it says it is committed to its non-U.S. confectionery business.

From the start of her tenure she dared to acknowledge what was obvious to everyone outside the business but unutterable to those inside it: Junk food makes people fat and harms their health.

Some 1,700 health professionals and institutions also have signed an open letter to McDonald's Chief Executive Jim Skinner calling for it to stop marketing junk food to kids.

Health - ifying junk food recipes has to be one of the easiest ways to convince your friends that quitting sugar ain't all that bad!

We appeal to the health and humane conscious, the junk food lover and the dieter.

However now that I'm older and a little more health conscious I love that you can use alternative ingredients to make some of your favorite junk foods a little more healthy.

The ready availability of processed and junk foods makes it easy for people to overlook their health and resort to bad eating habits.

Also, look at the Seventh Day Adventists, who have excelled at health and longevity with a vegetarian diet and no alcohol, junk food, etc..

What really sucks is that most commercial vegan «cheeses» that we turn to in lieu of the real thing are pretty much junk food, just as bad for your health as dairy.

Amber, I want to tell you these cookies knocked the socks off some serious health foodies AND some very picky junk food eaters, who all work at the same company.

Even if measures supported by the best available evidence (such as traffic light labelling on the front - of - food packaging and removing advertising junk food to children between 6 am and 9 pm as recommended in the Government's response to the National Preventative Health Taskforce) are implemented, regulation is no panacea.

People who transition to a plant based diet for health reasons often find that they can effortlessly maintain a healthy weight due to the elimination of processed junk food from their diet.

Dates are high in vitamin B6 and other B vitamins, magnesium, and potassium that make them wonderful for energy levels and metabolic health as well as calming frayed nerves and lowering cravings for sugar and other types of junk foods.

Sustain has welcomed commitments from shadow Health Secretary Jon Ashworth that a future Labour Government would introduce legal standards for hospital food, extend the sugary drinks tax and ban junk food advertising during family TV, for the benefit of the nation's hHealth Secretary Jon Ashworth that a future Labour Government would introduce legal standards for hospital food, extend the sugary drinks tax and ban junk food advertising during family TV, for the benefit of the nation's healthhealth.

Money spent last year on junk food advertising in the UK far outweighs the amount Government is able to spend on healthy eating campaigns, leading to an unbalanced environment pushing us towards unhealthy choices, according to new analysis by the Obesity Health Alliance (OHA).

Rather than informing consumer choice, Australia's year - old health star food rating system is failing customers, and allowing food manufacturers to give an aura of health to junk foods.

provide advertisers with an option to pay a 1.5 per cent levy on alcohol and junk food advertising if they did not choose to include the health information themselves

Unfortunately, living on junk food creates health problems that shorten a lifespan and lower the quality of life.

If you look at the anti-obesity policy recommendations of almost every leading public health organization, the list invariably includes a ban on junk food advertising directed at children.

One lone parent complaining about junk food in their child's school can be easily dismissed as some sort of «crazy health nut.»

As childhood obesity rates continue to rise (as I fear they will), and as we start to see ever more clearly the ill health effects of our current school food regime (replete with its a la carte junk), as well as our current agricultural policies, maybe our society will eventually embrace the idea of universal, free school food.

Because I have seen firsthand here in Houston ISD how fundraisers selling junk food can have a real and negative impact on student health, I endorsed the second approach.

Industry has made food the focus by putting profit over public health, which in turn shifts the spotlight to «what we're eating»... which in turn creates «righteous» reasons not to shovel the junk in kids» mouths... which in turn puts way too much emphasis on the tug - o - war bit for kids» health and well - being.

In particular, there are three aspects of the House bill that ought to especially worry parents, health advocates and those who are concerned about fighting childhood hunger: the bill takes a decidedly unscientific approach to setting school nutrition standards, it would most certainly re-open the school junk food floodgates, and it will drop millions of needy kids from a much - lauded program that currently offers them free school meals.

The fact is that junk food does cause health and weight problems.

More likely, any local community already so committed to student health wouldn't allow a lot of «copycat» junk food in the cafeteria in the first place.

I also do what I can to stem the tide of junk food my kids are exposed to each day, not making any food taboo (and therefore even more desirable) but just trying to impose reasonable limits while teaching lessons about balance and health.

I post it here not as an indictment of school food, as I don't think it's even compliant with federal regulations, but just as possibly the most ridiculous attempt ever to «health - wash» a junk food.

For example, if the assistant superintendent for finance says that the school depends on the money generated from junk - food sales, an argument about children's health may not be persuasive.

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Sid Miller can polish his conservative bona fides by granting «amnesty» to cupcakes, but wrongheaded policies relating to school meal standards and classroom junk food adversely affect the health of real children every day.

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Saturated and trans fats (which are in a lot of junk food) can alter the composition of your breast milk and possibly harm the health of your baby.

Independently funded studies tend to show that any eating pattern can promote health if it provides vegetables and fruits, balances calories, and does not include much junk food.

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The film really pulls no punches aiming to dispel the junk food industry's strongest talking points: it's all a matter of personal responsibility; we can just exercise our way to health; and we don't need government regulation.

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It's certainly a win - win situation for these schools, but it also creates a disturbing picture of rich kids nibbling on sushi and having enough money for the team uniforms, while poor kids in a neighboring district are not only getting eating subpar food, they're often selling candy and other junk food to raise money for those same uniforms, further contributing to poor health habits that may last a lifetime.

This led to many women consuming way too many calories, not to mention lots of junk food, putting a strain on their health and that of their babies.

I share her concern that health advocates will focus too much on marketing healthy snacks to kids instead of taking steps to end the marketing of junk food to kids.

While outright bans may be seen as going too far, some kind of restriction on junk food in schools seems like a sensible adult decision, given the impact of obesity on children, families, and the health care system so well documented in Weight of the Nation.

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And it will help eliminate junk food from vending machines and a la carte lines — a major step that is supported by parents, health - experts, and many in the food and beverage industry.

Of course, this isn't the first time I've encountered the incongruous use of sugary or other junk foods to raise money for kids» health or fitness.

If we say «they just don't LIKE it» and shrug our shoulders in resignation, we just add to the life sentence of addiction and ill health that junk food companies have written for our children.

Instead, they were inundated with deep - fried, salty, highly caloric meals and junk - food snacks, and they could pass up the fruits and vegetables so critical to their health.