Feds Fine Utah School for Soda Machine, Declare Snickers Bars Nutritious

[John F Kennedy III]

Feds Fine Utah School for Soda Machine, Declare Snickers Bars Nutritious

Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com
May 22, 2012


A school in Utah was recently fined $15,000 by the federal government for the crime of selling soda to students during lunch. The school used the money made from the sale of soda to fund school programs.



According to federal rules, schools are only allowed to sell soda before and after lunch.

“The rule is vague and open to interpretation. For example, the way the rule reads – you can buy before lunch starts a carbonated beverage, buy school lunch, sit down in the cafeteria, eat the school lunch and not be in violation,” Davis High Principal Dee Burton told KUTV in Salt Lake City.

It is OK to sell Gatorade and “Snickers and Milkyway bars because they have nuts and they’re nutritious. You can’t sell licorice, but you can sell ice-cream,” Burton said.

Snickers and Milkyway bars are nutritious?

The feds say they are attempting to cut down on childhood obesity by fining schools thousands of dollars. But if the government is concerned about the health of children, why don’t they ban all soda sales in schools? Why haven’t they outlawed McDonald’s and other fast-food restaurants from operating within a certain distance from schools?

According to studies, the primary cause of childhood obesity is parent obesity and is linked to genetics and environment. Dietary factors play a secondary role.

A three year randomized controlled study of 1,704 3rd grade children which provided two healthy meals a day in combination with an exercise program and dietary counsellings failed to show a significant reduction in percentage body fat when compared to a control group, according to a Wikipedia write-up on childhood obesity.

Despite this, the CDC believes schools “play a particularly critical role by establishing a safe and supportive environment with policies and practices that support healthy behaviors. Schools also provide opportunities for students to learn about and practice healthy eating and physical activity behaviors.”

This should be the responsibility of parents, not public schools and the government. However, if we are to assume childhood obesity is caused by processed food, maybe the feds should be fining agribusiness and the food industry instead of attacking schools and parents.

That is not likely to happen any time soon because agribusiness and large corporations that produce and sell processed food contribute a lot of money to “our” Congress critters.

It’s easier and more profitable to take money from schools, and subsequently local communities, that pay property taxes to fund schools.

Fining schools for selling soda is another way for government to revenue enhance.


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[LibertyRevolution]

Snickers Bars have gone through a downsizing. The King size bar is dead now, and the normal size bar has been reduced to under 250calories...
They are now smaller and contain less stuff, which now makes them healthy :/

I saw an article on CNN about it.

[Lishy]

WTF!? Schools can't sell SODA!? And this is federal!?

[evilfunnystuff]

WTF!? Schools can't sell SODA!? And this is federal!?

It's only during lunch, it's not a big deal.

[Occam's Banana]

Snickers Bars have gone through a downsizing. The King size bar is dead now, and the normal size bar has been reduced to under 250calories...
They are now smaller and contain less stuff, which now makes them healthy :/

I saw an article on CNN about it.

And in other news: Pizza is now a vegetable.

[Revolution9]

Chocolate is a staple in hard rations as it has complex sugars for long lasting energy and saturated fats for maintaining a clear head and longer burning energy source.

Soda... Good for washing the chemtrails out of the throat.

Rev9

[John F Kennedy III]

Bump

[Endgame]

$#@! public schools, $#@! the feds, $#@! soda and $#@! snickers bars. Fail on all fronts.

The modern diet is full of poisons. HFCS is one of the worst.

[Indy Vidual]

Snickers bars are one of the best (tasting) junk foods. One or two per week won't hurt too much.
Yummy.

[speciallyblend]

Chocolate is a staple in hard rations as it has complex sugars for long lasting energy and saturated fats for maintaining a clear head and longer burning energy source.

Soda... Good for washing the chemtrails out of the throat.

Rev9

gulp gulp ahhhhhhhhh http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpVf_PVoI58<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpVf_PVoI58">

[Yieu]

gulp gulp ahhhhhhhhh http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpVf_PVoI58<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpVf_PVoI58">

That video is humorous.

[Chrysamere]

According to studies, the primary cause of childhood obesity is parent obesity and is linked to genetics and environment. Dietary factors play a secondary role.

A three year randomized controlled study of 1,704 3rd grade children which provided two healthy meals a day in combination with an exercise program and dietary counsellings failed to show a significant reduction in percentage body fat when compared to a control group, according to a Wikipedia write-up on childhood obesity.

Despite this, the CDC believes schools “play a particularly critical role by establishing a safe and supportive environment with policies and practices that support healthy behaviors. Schools also provide opportunities for students to learn about and practice healthy eating and physical activity behaviors.”

What a load of bull$#@!... Does anyone actually believe this? According to studies.. what studies? And quoting wikipedia? What kind of a complete moron is the writer of this article? America, the country of the fatasses, because of genes ofcourse!

I absolutely agree that the federal government should not be banning this in schools, but the writer of this article is such a complete idiot it discredits anything in his article.

[oyarde]

$#@! public schools, $#@! the feds, $#@! soda and $#@! snickers bars. Fail on all fronts.

The modern diet is full of poisons. HFCS is one of the worst.

Screw the Feds and the fine , fine to be paid by local people in Utah who pay property ta, I imagine , since that is where school funding comes from , where I reside..

[Zippyjuan]

Snickers has chocolate and nuts. Sodas have sugar. I would prefer Snickers to sodas. Snickers satisfies you.

[loveshiscountry]

Snickers bars are one of the best (tasting) junk foods. One or two per week won't hurt too much.
Yummy.

Agreed. After reading this article I wonder if Mars saw their value jump a bit.

[speciallyblend]

Snickers has chocolate and nuts. Sodas have sugar. I would prefer Snickers to sodas. Snickers satisfies you.

grabs the snickers and take a hit of a cold coke! oops i love my coke and snickers. i guess that is not what folks were looking for but it is very good yummm http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ib-Qiyklq-Q<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ib-Qiyklq-Q">

[Zippyjuan]

In some circles, a Snickers Bar is a delicacy!

[tttppp]

There are natural sodas that are healthy and taste great. They could be selling those at schools. Unfortunately, they can't get their product sold outside of health food stores. There are probably healthy stacks that taste good too that they could sell. The peanuts in Snickers in no way makes it healthy.

[Zippyjuan]

There are natural sodas that are healthy and taste great. They could be selling those at schools. Unfortunately, they can't get their product sold outside of health food stores. There are probably healthy stacks that taste good too that they could sell. The peanuts in Snickers in no way makes it healthy.

Anything can be unhealthy if you eat or drink too much of it. "Natural" sodas are still basically carbonated water and some form of sugar with added flavors.

[tttppp]

Anything can be unhealthy if you eat or drink too much of it. "Natural" sodas are still basically carbonated water and some form of sugar with added flavors.

No they are not. There are natural sodas in health food stores that are made up of carbonated water and fruit juice. No added sugar or flavors.

[Zippyjuan]

Fruit juice can have lots of sugar too. You don't have to add sugar- it is already there naturally. It will have a few more vitamins than sodas and perhaps some fiber.

http://www.hookedonjuice.com/

JUST WHAT IS THE SUGAR CONTENT OF FRUIT JUICE? We’ll use orange, apple, cherry and grape juice as examples. Even with no sugar added, fruit juice contains about the same amount of sugar as the same amount of soft drink. Because apples, oranges and grapes are naturally full of sugar. (No surprise there: Processed sugar comes from plants, usually corn or sugar cane or sugar beets.) The table below compares the sugar in 12 ounces of juice (no sugar added) with 12 ounces (one can) of Coca-Cola. If you look at the nutrition label on a can of Coke or fruit juice, the “carbohydrate” is mostly sugar. Four grams of sugar carbs equal approximately 1 teaspoon of sugar.

WHAT DOES THE CHART TELL US? It tells us that no matter which juice you choose, they all have more calories than the same amount of Coke. It tells us that juice — 100 percent juice, no sugar added — contains about the same amount of sugar (or even more — 50 percent more for grape juice) as the same volume of Coke. For this comparison we used: Classic Coke, Tropicana HomeStyle Orange Juice, Walnut Acres Organic 100 Percent Apple Juice, Eden Organic Montmorency Cherry Juice (no sweetener added) and R.W. Knudsen Unsweetened Concord Grape Juice. The numbers in the chart were calculated from the nutrition labels on the containers.

[bolil]

Perhaps they could just convert the soda machines to Adderall dispensing machines. That would save teachers a lot of trouble.

[tttppp]

Fruit juice can have lots of sugar too. You don't have to add sugar- it is already there naturally. It will have a few more vitamins than sodas and perhaps some fiber.

http://www.hookedonjuice.com/

Counting calories is a poor measure of health. Fruit juice is perfectly healthy nomatter how many calories it is, within reason. Sugar from juice is not the same as raw sugar. No rational person would ever believe Coke is better for you than fruit juice.

[John F Kennedy III]

Is the sugar in Ocean Spray and the generic fruit juice companies natural sugar? I never payed much attention to it until recently, but it seems high. They are all made from concentrate.

Searched google for Ocean Spray. I don't know if this is Ocean Spray or not but it and the generics always are 27g of sugar or higher