Before schools ban chocolate milk, they should
ban all soda sales and most juice sales, as soda is entirely worthless / detrimental and juice is essentially sugar water, sometimes with vitamin C added (if children need vitamin C and won't regularly eat vegetables and fruits, give them vitamins instead of juice).
Not exact matches
Michael Bloomberg, the mayor of New York City who recently took a lot of heat for his law that would
ban the
sale of
soda in containers over 16 ounces, is at it again with a controversial pro-breastfeeding program.
Both of those practices have been
banned in Texas since 2004, and the
sale of deep fried food or
soda to kids would directly run afoul of the federal regulations for school meals and competitive foods and beverages.
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.
Mayor Bloomberg's recent proposal to the Department of Health and Hygiene to
ban the
sale of sugary drinks and
sodas larger than...
NYC
bans sugary drinks In September, the New York City Board of Health voted to restrict the
sale of restaurant
sodas larger than 16 ounces, becoming the first city in the country to institute a «
soda ban.»
A 2003 state law
bans the
sale of
soda and sweetened beverages in elementary schools and middle schools, and a more recent bill effectively prohibits them in high schools by 2009.
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.
His public health reforms have attracted both high praise and heavy criticism, particularly his attempt to
ban super-size
soda sales in NYC.