Sentences with phrase «junk food industries which»
The exponential growth of the fast and junk food industries which has produced a pandemic of obesity across the country
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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.
The tastings take a lesson from the junk food industry, which uses «fun» to sell, but the tastings «introduce children to the exquisite flavors of real food to help them to develop their palates, develop a lifelong love of good food and enjoy the benefits of a healthy life.»
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?
The historic rise in childhood obesity has absolutely nothing to do with: federal corn subsidies which unnaturally render junk food and fast food the cheaper option for many consumers; the food industry's intense focus on making junk food hyper - palatable; the almost $ 2 billion spent each year to aggressively market junk food to kids: the growing ubiquity of junk food in outlets which formerly never sold food (Michael's craft stores, fabric stores, car washes, etc.); or a host of other factors.
The food industry certainly wants you to eat more junk food, which worsens all the problems highlighted in this article (and many others).
Documenting the 8 - bit Generation & Beyond (Jennifer De La Cruz / Computer History Museum - ARTICLE) «Founded by Tomaso Walliser and Bruno Grampa in 2008, Junk Food Films made its mark on the documentary film industry with its 2012 project the «8bit Generation,» which resulted in two documentaries Growing the 8 - bit Generation: The Commodore Wars and Easy to Learn, Hard to Master: The Fate of Atari.»
The article said cuts affected the more difficult and contentious health promotion tasks — such as regulatory policy for alcohol and tobacco and food, which requires examining industry behaviours like advertising of junk foods, salt levels used in processed food, and alcohol promotions.