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Just read an alarming article from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, regarding
the consumption of soft drinks and snacks in schools. Seems as though the
school administrators think this is just fine -- they get their money for a
new score board, and Pepsi Cola gets customers for life.
"Is a soft drink caving into the devil? I don't think so" says one. School
officials say it's unfair to blame them for children's health problems. If
they don't sell soft drinks at schools, the students will simply buy them
somewhere else, and somebody else gets the money.
It is attitudes like this that are so damaging. If you don't take a stand in
the schools, where do you take a stand? The problem here is that the school
nutritionists are mainstream, and do not see sugar and carbohydrate as the
enemy, and of course the teachers and school administrators probably guzzle
these drinks and are overweight themselves.
Charles
San Diego, CA.
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