Public health expert urges parents to use school lunches to fight childhood obesity

newsday ^ | 9/8/2001 | ap

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Barraged by advertisements for junk food, schoolchildren need help from their parents to avoid developing a lifelong weight problem, according to a public health expert.

Parents should use the school lunch bag as a weapon against childhood obesity, which has become an epidemic in this country, said Dr. Leah Ziskin, associate dean of the School of Public Health at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey.

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No Pancakes

[Dan from Michigan]

Publik helth advocates are a threat to public health.

[OldFriend]

Good grief, anyone ever see the quality and variety of food offerred at the school. Hotdogs, chicken nuggets, and on Fridays, McDonalds!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! sheesh, it would be laughable if it weren't so sad.

[E=MC²]

This person must be a demonrat or the headline would be that Republicans want to starve our chillen.