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'Thanks Michelle!': Disgusted teens across the country pose alongside new healthy vending machines in their schools to protest the removal of their favorite treats
The Daily Mail / Mail Online
James Gordon
8/14/2014
Excerpt:
Students returning back to school after the summer vacation are finding out what First Lady Michelle Obama's new rules for healthy eating in schools, truly mean.
Gone are the the signs marketing high-sugar sodas to thirsty kids, so too are the fattening chips and chocolate.
Instead, those having cravings for all-things-fattening will have to make do with protein bars, vegetable snacks, bottles of mineral water and diet soda.
Mrs Obama's new rules which were approved by her husbands administration now see vending machines across the country featuring healthier options in an overall effort to fight obesity.
With many schools back in session, teens have taken to Twitter to vent their frustration at the lack of options that the new vending machines provide.
'Michelle Obama is single-handedly ruining my life by changing school lunch and the vending machines,' tweeted one student who was craving calories.
'How about Michelle Obama quit worrying about the vending machines and worry about how terrible school lunches are. Like that’s cardboard,' tweeted another angry student.
Some students seem to have taken matters into their own hands, however, and are starting to bring in their favorite sugary snacks from outside of school.
'Smuggling junk food in my purse to school because there’s only healthy food in the vending machines,' wrote one Twitter user.
The new rules phase out the advertising of sugary drinks and junk foods around campuses during the school day and ensure that other promotions in schools are in line with health standards that already apply to school foods.
That means a scoreboard at a high school football or basketball game eventually is no longer allowed to advertise Coca-Cola, for example, but it could advertise Diet Coke or Dasani water, which is also owned by Coca-Cola Co.
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- First Lady has introduced new rules that saw companies limited in what products they could advertise on signs, vending machines, cups and menu boards on school grounds
- Food industry spent nearly $150 million in 2009 on marketing in schools, 93 percent was promoting drinks
- Schools now require drink companies to promote their diet sodas or water on signs and scoreboards, rather than full-calorie options like Coca-Cola and Pepsi
- Michelle Obama's Let's Move program is now in its fourth year
The Daily Mail / Mail Online
James Gordon
8/14/2014
Excerpt:
Students returning back to school after the summer vacation are finding out what First Lady Michelle Obama's new rules for healthy eating in schools, truly mean.
Gone are the the signs marketing high-sugar sodas to thirsty kids, so too are the fattening chips and chocolate.
Instead, those having cravings for all-things-fattening will have to make do with protein bars, vegetable snacks, bottles of mineral water and diet soda.
Mrs Obama's new rules which were approved by her husbands administration now see vending machines across the country featuring healthier options in an overall effort to fight obesity.
With many schools back in session, teens have taken to Twitter to vent their frustration at the lack of options that the new vending machines provide.
'Michelle Obama is single-handedly ruining my life by changing school lunch and the vending machines,' tweeted one student who was craving calories.
'How about Michelle Obama quit worrying about the vending machines and worry about how terrible school lunches are. Like that’s cardboard,' tweeted another angry student.
Some students seem to have taken matters into their own hands, however, and are starting to bring in their favorite sugary snacks from outside of school.
'Smuggling junk food in my purse to school because there’s only healthy food in the vending machines,' wrote one Twitter user.
The new rules phase out the advertising of sugary drinks and junk foods around campuses during the school day and ensure that other promotions in schools are in line with health standards that already apply to school foods.
That means a scoreboard at a high school football or basketball game eventually is no longer allowed to advertise Coca-Cola, for example, but it could advertise Diet Coke or Dasani water, which is also owned by Coca-Cola Co.
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View the complete article, including photos and images, at:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ty-snacks.html