-LSB-...] the recent announcement by Disney that it's
ditching junk food advertising for kids does give me a bit of hope.
But the recent announcement by Disney that it's
ditching junk food advertising for kids does give me a bit of hope.
Not exact matches
And there are also many, many things we could be doing to encourage children's acceptance of healthier school meals: imposing meaningful restrictions on children's
junk food advertising; requiring
food education in schools — not just nutrition education, but offering kids a real understanding of our
food system, and overtly inoculating them against the allure of hyper - processed and fast
food; teaching all children basic cooking skills; getting more gardens into schools; encouraging restaurants to
ditch the standard breaded - and - fried children's menu; imposing taxes on soda (and even
junk food); improving
food access; and so much more.
Just think about it: if you were trying to balance a very tight budget in an operation which lives or dies based on how well students accept your
food, and if many (sometimes, the vast majority) of those students came from homes in which nutritionally balanced, home cooked meals are far from the norm, and if the
food industry was bombarding those kids with almost $ 2 billion a year in
advertising promoting
junk food and fast
food, and if you had no money of your own for nutrition education to even begin to counter those messages, and if some of those kids also had the option of going off campus to a 7 - 11 or grabbing a donut and chips from a PTA fundraising table set up down the hall, wouldn't you, too, be at least a tiny bit tempted to ramp up the white flour pasta, pizza and fries and
ditch the tasteless, low - sodium green beans?