Sentences with phrase «sold junk food»

Kids have always been sold junk food at school.

For example: selling junk food is perfectly legal, and arguably fully ethical, at least on a case - by - case basis.

Companies realized cartoon characters were a pretty good way of selling junk food to children.

(See, e.g., last week's post: «Arizona, Gutting Federal Rules, Says ALL School Fundraisers Can Sell Junk Food.

We tell them it's important to feed their body healthy foods, then we ask them to go out and sell junk food.»

I worry schools in our state are going to feel like it's a free - for - all when it comes to selling junk food.»

The main objections to offering nutritious food seemed to be bureaucratic inertia and a fear that Student Nutrition Services (SNS) would lose a lot of money if it stopped selling the junk food everyone assumed kids wanted.

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.

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.

Here in HISD, veritable «food courts» are set up at lunch at various high schools to sell junk food as fundraisers, and principals not only turn a blind eye, they're enthusiastic about them due to the revenue that is brought in — so much revenue that hefty fine from the TX Dept. of Agriculture is just the cost of doing business.

Now, though, I worry that school principals will feel they can sell junk food without consequences, especially given that Mr. Miller's department is the agency charged with enforcing the federal «Smart Snacks» rules.

Could it actually be true that schools do not need to sell junk foods to break even?

Does anyone else find it a little odd that in order to «connect hungry kids to... healthy food,» the charity is encouraging people (including kids) to bake and sell junk food?

-LSB-...] If You Don't Sell It, Fewer Will Eat It: The Effectiveness of California's Curbs on In - School Ju... — Bettina Elias Seigel, The Lunch Tray Does not allowing schools to sell junk food mean students will compensate for lost calories at home, or will they just eat less junk food?

Stories like this are excellent examples of why schools need to get out of the business of selling junk food.

Selling junk food (especially in the vending machines) is a big money - maker for schools.

Some schools offer healthy items a la carte, but some sell junk food a la carte; if your school does this, it may be a hard battle to get the nutrition department to step away from the junk food because they rely on that money to help fund the free meals.

Food dyes have only one purpose: to sell junk foods.

The sickness in our manufacturing world that would have us invent and sell junk foods in the first place

Banzhaf has written to six multinationals selling junk food, the Daily Mail reported.

Oh Harvey you're just not conspiracy - minded enough; the PTB didn't create a demand for junk food to sell you junk food, they created a demand for junk food so they could sell you treatments and medicines for diabetes, high blood pressure, artery and heart problems, etc..

Not exact matches

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.

As the WSJ puts it, who will be left «to champion the cause of good old fashioned junk food, sold at junk prices?»

The KitKat maker is selling its U.S. candy arm to Ferrero for a sweet $ 2.8 bln to invest in products with better growth than junk food.

The truth is if we just ate simple, natural, unprocessed foods along with small portions of quality meats and whole grains then most people wouldn't need to turn to any of the dangerous junk these companies are trying to sell.

It's all so perfect — fresh, healthful food for the same cost as processed junk — that it makes a public school parent like me want to cry out, «OK, Jamie, I'm sold!

Junk food in the lunch line, or vending machines, or even sold by school sponsored organizations for fundraising, is a completely different issue.

That said, there may be future Trump administration efforts to further weaken HHFKA advances, including a possible gutting of the «Smart Snacks» rules that cleaned up the junk food sold to kids via fundraisers, vending machines, school stores and a la carte lines.

But truthfully, there are people out there who are very under - educated about food and can benefit from laws that stop tobacco being sold to minors and keep junk out of tax - funded public school lunches.

E.g., I was surprised to learn that many high schools here in Houston have a single lunch hour for thousands of kids and this is one reason schools are turning a blind eye to the illegal junk food sold on campus as fundraisers.

Now I know the food industry isn't going to just slink away from the lucrative school snack market, but given the rigorous standard that will go into effect in 2016, it seems to me that any processed foods still sold in schools after that date should no longer fall into the empty - calorie, «better - for - you» junk food category.

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.»

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.

Here in Houston ISD, for example, high school students, PTOs and coaches often set up fundraising tables at lunch to sell entrees from local restaurants and fast food chains, everything from pizza to Chinese food, creating veritable «food courts» of junk food.

-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.

I suppose that's progress, but as far as I'm concerned any junk food the school is selling is too much.

In a report to be released on Tuesday, a group of 300 retired military officers said school - age children are eating 400 billion excess calories a year - the equivalent of 2 billion candy bars - from junk food sold in such machines as well as in snack bars and cafeterias that should be off - limits.

Schools have expressed concerns about losing profits, though the bill would allow soda and junk food snacks to be sold after school at events such as football games.

The Democrat - led House voted Thursday to send President Obama a bill that would enable more poor children to receive free meals at school, raise the nutritional quality of cafeteria fare and reduce the junk food and sugary beverages sold in school vending machines.

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As of July 1, when the next phase of HHFKA's more stringent school nutrition standards will be implemented, SNA's influential Big Food and Beverage patrons will no longer be able to sell or serve many of their ultra-processed junk food products in the nation's schoFood and Beverage patrons will no longer be able to sell or serve many of their ultra-processed junk food products in the nation's schofood products in the nation's schools.

They'll also be able to resume selling a la carte junk foods daily.

Schools have a vital role to play in helping children learn about proper nutrition and how to make healthy eating choices, and all food sold or served at school should provide those healthy choices; there is no room for junk food at school!

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.

The study found that kids who go to schools where lots of junk foods are sold are heavier than those who go to schools in states with strict standards about the nutritional quality of snacks and drinks.

And for some parents, that means returning kids to classrooms rife with unwanted candy rewards, food - based classroom birthday celebrations, junk food sold «a la carte» in the cafeteria, vending machines with sugary juice and sports drinks, and highly processed, chemical - laden school meals.

As you probably know, junk food and sugary milk sell well.

I found myself almost nodding in agreement with Jeanne, fully understanding the financial challenges she's facing and why she feels the need to sell this highly processed junk food.

So the same junk food (just more of it) is being sold without any thought to consumer demand or the same merchandising philosophies that convenience and grocery stores apply to their product layout.

This link takes you to the «evolving» model of the continuum, on which you can track our progress, but I also have the original version I used back in 2002, which is just a piece of posterboard, with pictures at one end of all the junk food being sold / served at that time in our schools, and underneath, the flames of hell licking at the soda bottles and chips....