Sentences with phrase «ban junk food»

Most initiatives either restrict foods of «minimal nutritional value» — such as carbonated beverages, frozen treats, gum, and certain types of candies — or limit or ban junk food and soda sales.

Some districts and, in some cases, entire states, are drafting new laws to ban junk food from school and encourage access to healthy offerings on campuses.

Labour set itself on a collision course with ITV last night by vowing to ban junk food ads during TV shows Britain's Got Talent and X-Factor.

What does it say about our society if we would rather send children to such mutilating procedures but yet lack the political will to properly fund school nutrition and ban junk food advertising to children?

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 health.

In 2012, Disney banned junk food advertising on all of its child - targeted TV and radio platforms.

Banning junk food TV adverts before the 9 pm watershed is an important part of the comprehensive approach needed.»

When I was a teacher in an inner - city comprehensive, I became convinced that banning junk food would do more to raise educational standards than the cartload of government initiatives deposited on the school doorstep.

59 Pep rallies relieve stress, motivate students for high stakes tests; state weighs banning junk food from schools; schools consider breath tests for all students before dances; program integrates cooking and academics.

Meanwhile, 17 of its 24 school districts banned junk food sales for the entire school day.

He invested in the health care system, banned junk food in schools, prohibited smoking just about anywhere (including private cars if children under 15 are in them), removed taxes on bikes, brought in free immunizations, protected boreal forests, instituted wine and liquor bottle deposit returns, changed the definition of marriage to include homosexual couples.

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Clear country of origin labels and Bans and taxes on «junk» food were positively associated with age.

Recent polling shows that 74 per cent of the UK public back a ban on advertising junk food on TV before 9 pm.

[63] They cite the cases of Sweden, Norway and Quebec as instances where there is inconclusive evidence that bans have been successful (see the section later in this paper on what actions other countries have taken in relation to junk food advertising for more explanation of the regime in place in these countries).

Another argument against the banning of junk food advertising to children claims that assertions about causal influences of food advertising on children's diets and weight are flawed because they do not take into consideration other risk factors.

Wenger's early innovations at Arsenal included banning players from drinking, encouraging them to eat boiled chicken instead of red meat, discouraging junk food and enlisting the help of an osteopath.

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.

That was particularly true when I discovered that one school superintendent lamenting the egg ban — frequently mentioned by Rep. Robert Aderholt (R - AL) in his campaign to roll back meal standards — hailed from a district making almost $ 3 million a year by selling junk food and fast food to kids.

The USDA received a significant number of comments seeking to also ban marketing by companies selling «copycat» snacks in schools, i.e., Smart Snacks - compliant versions of junk food available in supermarkets.

It just seems reassuring to know that Seaman and Steel aren't like those people we all know, who constantly remind friends (and strangers) that their children only eat organic and talk about their household ban on fast / junk food as if some insidious junk food cartel were trying to force it down their chimney at night as they sleep.

-LSB-...] USDA received a significant number of comments seeking to also ban marketing by companies selling «copycat» snacks in schools, i.e., Smart Snacks - compliant versions of junk food available in supermarkets.

Do you remember those moms in Britain stuffing junk food through the schoolyard fence when the schools tried to ban it on campus?

Last week, First Lady Michelle Obama and the USDA made headlines by announcing a proposal to ban the marketing of junk food and sugary beverages on school campuses.

and voluntary industry efforts like the Disney junk food ad ban, I've also acknowledged the weakness of the former and the frequent corporate abuses of voluntary schemes like the latter.

Instead we instituted a groundbreaking school nutrition policy to remove the worst junk food on our school campuses, including a ban on deep fat fryers and the imposition of common sense «time and place» restrictions on the sale of competitive foods in the cafeteria during school meal times.

GLEED, Wash. — Potato growers are fighting back against efforts to ban or limit potatoes in federal child nutrition programs, arguing the tuber is loaded with potassium and vitamin C and shouldn't be considered junk food.

I also wrote for the Times about: a frozen pizza that sneaks veggies into unsuspecting kids; changes ahead for junk food in school classrooms; why President Trump's eating habits are fair game for commentators; and a groundbreaking New Mexico law banning lunch shaming.

As for Texas, food blogger and school nutrition activist, Bettina Elias Siegel pointed out that the call for cupcake amnesty was unnecessary since the ban on junk food in Texas public schools was lifted more than a decade ago.

hasn't done enough and that you've been intimidated by the food industry — but I remain grateful for all you have been able to accomplish, whether it's nudging Disney toward a junk food ad ban or brokering a creative licensing deal between the Sesame Street Workshop and the Produce Marketing Association.

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.

Over the years, Congress has mandated federal nutrition standards, funded fresh fruit and vegetable programs and debated, but never acted on, banning various «junk foods» from schools.

And Rand Corp. researchers propose initiatives like those that worked for alcoholic beverages: Limit the density of fast - food outlets, ban sales in places that are not food stores, insist that supermarkets put junk foods and sodas where they are hard to see, ban drive - through sales, restrict portion sizes and use warning labels.

The accomplishments described were impressive — all junk food gone from the a la carte line and vending machines, sodas banned, improved federal meals — and I immediately tracked down Dana and arranged a phone call to see if these sorts of changes could be made in my own Houston district.

These factors include state - funded «taste training» in preschools, warnings on junk food advertising, bans on school junk food sales and of course societal value placed on French food culture.

But his reasoning entails that we ban unhealthy activity, including junk food and alcohol, in all public spaces.

Junk food advertising should be banned on all television programmes aimed at children under the age of 16, the broadcasting watchdog has said.

And the British Heart Foundation (BHF) said Ofcom had «absolutely failed to deliver», as their plans fell «way short» of the call for a ban on all junk food ads after 9 pm.

Just as cigarettes are banned from hospitals, so too should the junk food that could be contributing to — if not causing — people's medical problems.

I decided to do this because I have been slowly letting myself eat more and more junk foods (sugary stuff for me) that I have intentionally banned from the kitchen cupboards or the fridge when I first decided to lose weight.

These body messages are your emotional cravings, your ever so strong desire to overeat on dessert when you know you are full and will be feeling bloated after, it's the binge with the entire bag of chips when you are alone at home, the overwhelming urge to eat that «junk food» that you know is so unhealthy it is for you and the constant obsession about the food your latest diet is banning...

But, wait a minute — highly - processed (junk) food causes way more death and destruction than gun ownership — why don't we ban fast food restaurants?

Why doesn't the NFL and state - sponsored «health» agencies demand a ban on all junk food?

Now all of those times I have banned junk and sugary foods in our house is all the more reason to keep them out.

Under new guidelines issued last month by the state's education minister, Anne Bligh, junk food will be banned from all public schools for all but two days a term.

His past TV series Jamie's School Dinners was a great success and the support from the British public led the British government to commit # 60 million to the school food system as well as placing a ban on processed junk food in all UK schools.

When Rawmarsh School decided to impose a ban on children visiting local shops at lunchtimes and reworked the menu in line with Jamie Oliver's healthy eating campaign without seeking insight into parental opinion, the upshot was the shocking images of mothers handing junk food to children through the school railings.

He gained support from the British public and his efforts were recognised when the government committed # 500 million to the school food system as well as placing a ban on processed junk food in all UK schools in the autumn of 2006.

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Schools have made many steps toward improving children's safety and health, such as reducing the number of vending machines selling sugary drinks and junk food, banning allergenic foods like peanuts, and incorporating active, outdoor learning into the curriculum.