Clinton Foundation strikes deal with Soda Companies

[slicendice]

I just read that the Bill Clinton Foundation has struck a deal with all of the major cola companies essentially stopping all deliveries of sodas, and sweetened beverages to schools. Under the agreement, only water, low-fat milk and unsweetened beverages can be delivered to elementary and middle schools while high schools can have diet sodas delivered. A spokesman for the Clinton foundation calls this a huge victory in the fight against childhood obesity.

While I definately think childhood obesity is a problem in this country, I'm not sure the cause is the soda industry. This smells like typical Clinton logic to me. Don't blame the increase in gun crimes on decreased morals and respect, but rather blame the gun industry. Don't blame the childhood obesity on the growing sedimentary lifestyles being chosen by our children, but rather blame it on the soda industry. Blaming industry is a quick and easy out and doesn't make anyone take a good long hard look at themselves in the mirror. "It's not my fault Johnny is fat. The Twinkies made him do it!!"

What's next, lunchbox searches and Twinkie confiscations? I have a picture in my mind of a young boy clutching a Snickers bar under his arm while holding off teachers from taking it from him while he shouts "From my cold dead fingers!!"

[Aught Six]

Clinton calls it a victory against childhood obesity, but I call it a defeat for the notion of parentalresponsibility. Once again it's the state, not the parents, who decides what's best for junior.

The schools obviously don't trust parents to raise their children properly, but I'm still trying to figure out exactly what all of this nannyism regarding personal behavior has to do with education.

[kevin1]

I remember seeing a stat somwhere that there are two things that can be found at an average of every 50 yards in this country , payphones was the other one . Nice try Willie ...

When I was in high school a guy set up a soda shop/arcade in the strip mall across the street from the school . It was a popular hang out for those cutting school , and even more so for those who went after classes were over for the day . The principal actually tried to brow beat the guy into opening after school let out instead of 8:00 am on the pretext that kids were cutting class just to patronize his establishment . The guy calmly told him "Your students cutting class is your responsibility , I just run a businees . No , I won't open later since that would adversely affect my ability to make a living , so if you want the kids to stay out of here then may I respectfully suggest that you toddle your fat ass across the street 6 times per day and run them out of here yourself . If they're skipping school to be here it's because you aren't keeping their attention over there ."

While I was in school the only pop machine in the entire building was in the teacher's lounge , which we were forbidden to enter , I'll never understand why they changed that .

[Big Red Porkers]

here's the kicker - artificial sweeteners are TERRIBLE for the human body. More damage is going to be because of this IMO.

and besides, sugar drinks are NOT the cure for the problem - its only trying to treat a symptom

[kevin1]

Gulping down 20 oz of water sweetened by 80 grams of sugar doesn't do the body any favors either .
For reference there are approx. 4 grams to a teaspoon , so a 20 oz pop has 20 teaspoons of sugar in it , or about 2.8 ounces. To make it worse it's high fructose corn syrup , a much simpler sugar , so itconverts very easilyto fat . Compared to a few milligrams of aspartame , sucralose , or saccharin the non-diet pop is probably worse since excess sugar consumption is brutal to your organs and isa primary causitive factor for diabetes .

So , how many pops do you drink per day ?

[Briman]

Any correlation here?

We had a fat lazy president who received BJs in the Oval office, a few years later we have overweight lazy kids who give eachother BJs more than any other generation in history.[:'(]

[RedAllison]

lmao @ Briman, sadly he is correct!!! Hell my wife and I just found out lastyear that the private school my kids attend has a 7-8grade "BJ club". I can't imagine, when I was in those grades (early 80s) the VERY few girls who did that kind of stuff at that age were considered HOs and laughed at. Kind of like the "trench coat mafia" types. Now there is a student "club" that celebrates such activities??? [:-]And that's tame compared too the public schools, hell some of the students in govt schools are totin babies by that age...

Diabetes runs rampant on my dads side of the family so pretty much from my mid 20s on I have tried to limit my soda intake and drink unsweetened tea about 90% of the time. I have even taken a liking to various juices with meals but have you guys looked at the ingredients label on most "100% juices"? They are LOADED with sugar/corn sweetner. Drinks like Sunny Delight, CapriSun and other "bag/box drinks" are hardly any better for our kids than the Cokes/Pepsi's they are replacing. The only positive I guess is such action could curb caffeine intake for the kids.

It's just a fact that for whatever reasons Clintoon (and her husband) are really anti-softdrinks. They passed a large soda machine tax while in the govenors seat in AR. But then again they ARE Damocraps, they typically have NEVER seen a tax they didn't like!!! Perhaps their conscience got too them and this is payback for that tax?


RA

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If they REALLY want to get the pounds off little Johnny and Susie then they should NOT have ditched all the P.E. and exterior courses. Now days once a kid makes it past elementary school, they can go ALL day and never so much as see sunshine or the hardwood floor of a gymnasium!

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[kevin1]

ORIGINAL: Ifferd

This is all anÂ*empty propaganda move by the Soda companys - STATES decide what goes into schools or not - NOT the soda companys or the Clinton foundation.

This is incredible BS - don't believe it (.)

If your local school board or state BOE decides to remove or allow sodas, then fine, big F deal!
Soda in schools???? Who gives a F!!?? [>:]Â*[>:]Â*[>:]Â*[>:]Â*[>:]Â*[>:]

There is some truth to it Iff , though not much

Actually it's the individual school boards that ok or nix what is available to students , they do have fed and state guidlines to meet with regard to their nutrition program , but generally have great latitude where non-nutritive items like pop and snack items are concerned . I seriously doubt that the Clinton foundation had much to do with the drink manufaturer's decision to pull non-diet drinks from school vending machines , it had to be a marketing decision or the schools themselves demanded it . Marketing is unlikely since they stand to lose on this decision other than PR mileage , diet pop will never be as popular as non-diet to a generation raised on a sugar tit .

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