Wednesday, November 14, 2007

Vending against obesity

Young people should be encouraged to eat healthy food at school. However, the best way to ameliorate their diets is not through legal actions but through local initiatives supported by state law. The first step to achieve that goal is a proposal to get sugared drinks and other unhealthy foods out of vending machines.

The proposal will soon be discussed by the state House of Representatives, just as a lawsuit is being prepared to be filed in Massachusetts that would claim damages against soft drink producers for not putting warning tags on their products. In advance of the lawsuit, e-mails to 50-100 school committee members in Massachusetts were sent by Washington lawyer John Banzhaf ‘’to warn of your inevitable involvement in these law suits as a named p View the rest of this article


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