State may ban sugary drinks from public schools (Florida)

The Orlando Sentinel ^ | September 21, 2010 | Denise-Marie Balona

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Nanny State PING!

[freedumb2003]

The Food Nazis continue their march to erode Freedom “for our own good.”

Power corrupts. Absolute power creates a liberal.

[Parmy]

How about more exercise?

[ClearCase_guy]

On the bright side, the chocolate allowance has been increased from 30 grams to 24 grams. [/s]

[irishtenor]

They’re going to ban Orange Juice from schools in Florida? That has a much sugar as pop.

[freedumb2003]

>>How about more exercise?<<

That just creates more smug liberals.

[freedumb2003]

>>How about more exercise?<<

That just creates more smug liberals.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

As I understand it, the US subsidizes its sugar industry. You also have erected trade barriers against sugar imports. All to aid the domestic sugar growers.

As a result of the trade barriers, sugar has become much more expensive in the U.S. than in other countries; Canada for instance.

As a result of the high sugar prices, much of the junk food industry uses high fructose corn syrup as a sweetener, instead of expensive sugar.

As a result of the HFCS, more and more people are getting obese.

As a result of increasing obesity numbers; social engineers, and health NAZIS have been busy banning sugary drinks.

As a result of too much interference from the nanny state, and Big Brother ....

[Viking2002]

Funny - back in the day, we could get chocolate milk with our lunches, but we'd burn it off three-fold when we went out for recess and did things like play dodge ball, and all those other politically-incorrect activities. When - and we MUST - take back our country, I call for a new series of political and cultural Nuremberg Trials to identify and prosecute these soft dictators for who and what they are. No exceptions. No mercy.

"But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: for men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away, for his name is Obama."

[muawiyah]

Exercise would interfere with the "family life program" (putting condoms on cucumbers).

Besides, this is pretty much junk science. You cut back too much on milk fat, or do things that reduce its consumption by children who do not yet have a lactase deficiency, what you'll do us reduce their consumption of the natural cholesterol reduction drugs found in milk AND, worst of all, deprive the body of it's trigger for production of anti-triglyceride enzymes.

The kids won't even look fat but they'll have triglyceride levels so high their blood will barely flow through their veins.

This information is so readily available on the internet from reputable research facilities and organizations you're almost forced to conclude that the sponsors want to kill the kids.

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[SusaninOhio]

Are they going to search lunch boxes?

What happens when someone starts complaining about the ‘chemicals’ in diet soda? It is possible that they are more harmful than the sugar in regular soda, depending on what you read.

Tastes nasty too (my opinion). Have you ever seen anyone lose weight by switching to diet soda from regular soda? I haven’t. Some feel that the overly sweet taste in diet soda actually causes people to crave more sweetening in foods, to say nothing of the additional sodium in diet drinks.

Nanny State indeed! This will backfire along with all the other stupid Obozo regime regulations.

[susannah59]

Here's a novel idea: why not leave it up to the individual school districts, or the individual schools? Or are folks at the local level "too stupid" to know what is good for their kids and what will work?

They're going to force all this "healthy food" that the kids will end up not eating. I predict the final result will be an actual increase in the junk food consumption, because kids will either take snacks to school or else go home from school starving and load up because the "healthy" school menu was not appetizing.

[Jack Hammer]

Good thing, too; they start out with chocolate milk, and before you know it, they’ve graduated to double cheeseburgers with large fries.

Oh, the humanity!

[Ken H]

FU Nanny Statists

[Mase]

This article is from September of last year. Since then, we elected Adam Putnam (a solid conservative) as our Commissioner of Agriculture. One of his first acts, with Rick Scott's support, was to move the responsibility of school nutrition to the Department of Agriculture and away from the school Board where idiots like these folks could do a lot of harm. Putnam wanted to remove the politics from child nutrition and I believe the issue of eliminating flavored milk from school menus has been dropped. At least I hope he's had his way.

I also hope to see Putnam as our governor of senator in the near future.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[Mears]

You know this one really doesn’t bother me.

Unflavored milk or tap water was all we were offered in school,that’s all my kids could get-—no big deal.

[Mortrey]

Quit worrying about their girth....

START worrying about their brains.