Yech! We should also ban claws, and sew mouths shut--- for their own good.
Posted on 10/06/2006 3:57:54 PM PDT by Panerai
5 major food companies agree to snack guidelines that would ban Snickers
Snacks sold in schools will have less fat, sugar and salt under the latest crackdown on junk food won by former President Clinton.
Just five months after a similar agreement targeting the sale of sodas in schools, Clinton and the American Heart Association announced a deal Friday with several major food companies to make school snacks healthier — the latest assault on the nation’s childhood obesity epidemic.
“This is voluntary,” Clinton said. “They don’t have to do it. But they recognize the challenge we face, and they are helping us face the first step.”
Clinton said the obesity problem is hurting the American economy by contributing to high health care costs.
The agreement with Kraft Foods Inc., Mars Inc., Campbell Soup Co., Groupe Danone SA and PepsiCo Inc. sets guidelines for fat, sugar, sodium and calories for snack foods sold in school vending machines, stores and snack bars. Those companies make everything from M&M’s, yogurt and granola bars to Frito-Lay potato chips, Snickers bars and canned soups.
Under the guidelines, most foods won’t be permitted to derive more than 35 percent of their calories from fat and more than 10 percent from saturated fat. There will be a limit of 35 percent for sugar content by weight.
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Sounds like a plan........
That sounds GREAT.
Alas, Hershey has gone the PC route.........I received a box of hershey's dark chocolate that actually has a warning on the package........
Yech! We should also ban claws, and sew mouths shut--- for their own good.
Why Is Bill Clinton involved in this? Good grief, I am sure glad I don't have to go to school anymore. I am sure the Snickers company just loves him. Bill Clinton, Mr. Big Mac is suddenly a food nazi! Who'd of thunk it?
You're kidding???!!!!!
Good Lord, is nothing sacred?
!!!
Send her with a container of wine.
2 a day is good for you after all.
;-)
This is probably a good idea but those kids getting a "free" (tax payer-supplied) lunch that I personally know are waifs.
He just won't go away! He's like herpes on America.
I kid you not.
I don't have it in front of me but it was something along the line of the same antioxidents contained in tea and certain fruits are also in this candy, but like most indulgences they should be eaten in moderation.
But the funny thing is what they consider to be moderation..one serving is 4 pieces. This stuff is EXTRA dark chocolate and as much as I adore dark chocolate, 2 at a time is my limit, they are so rich.
What do you have against George H. W. Bush?
She won't drink flat pop and when I'm cooking I have to wait until she's out of the kitchen to add wine to anything, she thinks it's gross...........
When the reasoning behind the soda ban in school was explained to me, it made perfect sense. They're not beig PC, just practical.
They're contraband at our high schools! Verboten!!! No candy, chips, cookies or cokes...everything has to be healthy by The State's definition of "healthy."
OH MY GOSH! I apologize to the world for typing in 41 !!!!
Thank you, Harmless.
I MEANT BUBBA J. CLINTON AND HIS WINO,
NOT
George Herbert Walker Bush!!!!!!!!
Get lost, Bill!
Monica thinks she's something? Watch this!
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