Posted on 02/21/2012 8:37:46 PM PST by Steelfish
Lawmaker Wants To Ban Gatorade, Other Sugary Drinks From Schools
Over the past decade, California leaders have enacted several laws banning the sale of soft drinks in public schools. Now, a state lawmaker wants to take that ban a step further.
Santa Barbara Assemblyman Das Williams, a Democrat, introduced a bill last week that would ban the sale of sugary, electrolyte-replacement drinks such as Gatorade from school campuses during school hours. There are some exceptions, such as school fundraisers, and elementary school kids would never be allowed to buy such beverages on campus, whether school is in session or not.
The bill is sure to be incite opposition, as the earlier measures did, but it also has strong support.
The California Medical Association released a statement Tuesday praising the measure and noting that 1 in 3 California students are overweight or obese. Sports drinks, the association said in a written statement, were designed to “replace fluids after intense exercise.”
“Sports drinks are an inappropriate option for California students. They were designed for athletes who have been sweating for an hour or more, not for children as they walk across campus or eat their lunch,” said Harold Goldstein, executive director of the California Center for Public Health Advocacy. “(This) bill will close a loophole that has allowed the beverage industry to continue using California public schools to sell products that contribute to childhood obesity and diabetes.”
CMA president President James Hay also noted that many of these types of beverages contain high-fructose corn syrup and or other calorie-laden sweeteners but are mistakenly viewed by the public as healthy.
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Nanny states. If the school can afford better equipment thanks to having vending machines, more power to them. We need to teach our kids healthy eating habits. If my kid wants a gatorade after class he can have one, but it’d come out of his allowance. And be sure he’ll be burning those calories at swim practice.
Low fat milk, powdered milk, powdered eggs, brown rice, whole wheat pasta, cheese, beans, vegetables - canned or fresh, fresh fruit, or canned fruit with no sugar added, potatoes, salt, pepper.
If it's not on the list, you won't be able to use food stamps to get it.
Me, too. NO POP!
I love the idea, but you gotta include raw meat on the list. It’s the cheapest and most filling by far.
Can they ban sugar in the legislator’s coffee, too!???
G2 Sux. It has no taste to it because it lacks enough sugar.
As for Gatorade, I try to have that over soft drinks since I’ve had to work out a lot more. I was wondering though, does anybody really buy those cr@ppy flavors like purple rain glacier or blue ice or whatever? That stuff’s just plain nasty. Seems like whenever we go shopping the normal flavors (Fruit Punch, Orange, and Lemon Lime are almost always sold out, even at Wallyworld but they have plenty of the retarded flavors.
They shouldn’t ban Gatorade, however. After all, didn’t some “UN” or European Union report come out last month that said “there’s no proof water contributes to hydration?”/sarc
That’s not all —Assemblyman Bill Moning from Santa Cruz just proposed Calif state legislation that would ban all Food Trucks from a radius closer than 1500 feet from any school.
This morning he said on KSCO radio - “By age 50, 50% of hispanics in California come down with Type 2 Diabetes...”
I thought about it a while, but I decided to leave all meats off the list. I want to get them OFF of food stamps. If they want meat, they can do janitorial work at the schools or pick up trash in their neighborhoods.
I tend to go for those individual Kool-aid packets, the ones that you use to flavour water bottles. I find I can dilute them quite a bit and still get a reasonable taste.
It works out to be about 90 calories for every two litres (half gallon).
/sarcasm
CC
What has more carbs per unit volume, Gatorade or milk? I do not have a Gatorade bottle handy, but I’d suspect it’s the milk (and the milk certainly has the Gatorade beat for calories).
I wouldn’t suggest a diet of pure Gatorade unless there was a good reason for it (too much of it as in quarts per day can paradoxically bring on hypoglycemia and faintness) but come on. This is verging on the insane. Will V-8 and tomato juice survive the cut?
It will never happen. It would only add more nanniness to the nanny state, as well as create nightmares for retailers and their normal paying customers. Existing stamp quotas in dollars work about as well as anything to encourage frugality. USDA surveys from the Bush II era show that stamp recipients include fewer, not more junk foods in their food orders than paying customers do.
People who use food stamps are already by definition Nanny Staters. If they don’t like being unable to buy meat with their stamps, then they should get off the stamps. But yes, I am aware that changing the rules doesn’t mean changing behavior. Fraudsters will always find a way.
I think the notion of 'banning' items deemed 'harmful' belongs in the camp of those for whom the Declaration of Independence does not exist and the State decides just what freedoms you'll exercise.
Count me out.
You're absolutely right -- and it didn't require a single law. Of course, kids never had any money then, either. That was probably good, too.
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