| Junk Food – you don't want it | | Posted Tuesday, February 07, 2006 5:10:18 PM by Kate Grant | If we treat our bodies as dumpsters, no wonder the food we give it is called ”junk food”.  It's a known fact that junk food is bad for you if consumed in large quantities.
For those of you who still don't believe it, I suggest you'll rent the movie “Super Size Me”, written and directed by Morgan Spurlock. In the movie, Spurlock himself lived on nothing but junk food for month. Yes, breakfast lunch and dinner.
The rules were simple, he had to eat only what's on the menu, supersize when offered, and eat every item on the menu at least once. He was trying to show how is it is for Americans to become a junk food junkies. Well, it's a fact. No one can do this without suffering major consequences. Junk food advertising is growing from day to day, commercials on TV, radio, newspapers and the net are hard to avoid.
The only kind of junk food that at least won't harm you in the long run, are junk food t-shirts, that are gaining more and more popularity. Yes, we mean all those t-shirts with junk food brands printed on them. Go figure...
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| | | Labelling cheese as junk food 'unfair' | | Posted Friday, January 05, 2007 2:57:20 PM by Blog57 Team | | New advertising rules that will officially label cheese as "junk food" were condemned yesterday by the dairy industry as unfair, misleading and counter-productive. Under regulations coming into force this month, broadcasters will be banned from advertising cheese during children's television programmes or in shows with a large proportion of child viewers, such as The Simpsons and Hollyoaks. The ban is part of a government drive to crack down on junk food adverts on television, which is designed to reduce the exposure of children to foods high in fat, salt and sugar. It follows evidence that TV commercials have an indirect impact on children's eating behaviour and are contributing to the obesity epidemic. .... | |
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| | | Govt may ban junk food, colas in schools | | Posted Sunday, December 17, 2006 12:58:32 PM by Blog57 Team | | NEW DELHI: If union health minister Dr Anbumani Ramadoss has his way then very soon colas and junk food may be out of school canteens across the country. Terming they are a big risk for childrens health, Ramadoss has decided to launch an attack on what may be called the staple diet of most children nowadays. Colas and junk food are bad for childrens health. Hence, we want to ban the sale of such products within the school premises, he said. The health ministry is in talk with the union Human Resource Development ministry on how to go about implementing the ban in government schools, if not private. In the meanwhile, a massive campaign to make children aware of demerits of these products will be launched. However, knowing that banning such products would not be an easily feasible idea, the health ministry has called for a meeting of state health ministers and representatives next week, to discuss the matter.... | |
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| | | How junk food has made lost generation of schoolchildren | | Posted Monday, November 13, 2006 3:18:52 AM by Blog57 Team | | The difficulty of persuading schoolchildren to give up junk food was starkly laid out yesterday in evidence to MSPs by industry representatives who spoke of a "lost generation" of youngsters. Len Braid, of the Automatic Vending Association, told Holyrood's Communities Committee that Scottish schools now had an additional machine containing healthier options alongside every machine selling traditional sweets and crisps. "The take-up on healthy option machines is five times less than that for standard machines," he told a session on the Schools (Health Promotion and Nutrition) Bill, which is attempting to bring about a sea-change in youngsters' eating habits. Of the looming ban on all sales of unhealthy snacks and even artificially sweetened soft drinks, he said: "We do not want to simply move the problem to the corner shop or local supermarket." Karen Whitefield, the Labour convener of the committee, spoke of visiting a school in Airdrie in her own constituency and speaking to children who were leaving at lunchtime to buy chips because these were no longer on the daily school menu.... | |
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| | | WA hospital bans junk food | | Posted Friday, November 10, 2006 3:06:29 AM by Blog57 Team | | Princess Margaret Hospital in Perth has become the first public hospital in Western Australia to ban junk food. The hospital has been selling more than 60,000 buckets of chips and almost 70,000 soft drinks each year. It has now removed those items from its cafeteria and vending machines. Some cakes, muffins, ice-cream and cookies are still available. The Health Minister, Jim McGinty, says the unhealthiest food has been removed from the menu. Mr McGinty says all other public hospitals across the state will introduce healthier menus by the end of next year. "Junk food might be cheap and easy, but it's also deadly," he said. "It's important that we start at the children's hospital, because obesity is affecting our children at an unprecedented rate.... | |
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| | | Teens on the go junk healthy food habits | | Posted Monday, November 06, 2006 7:04:00 PM by Blog57 Team | | A walk through the food court of any mall confirms the worst reports about teens' eating habits: Kids share overflowing cartons of French fries, bite into cheeseburgers and dripping slices of pizza, and quench their thirst with jumbo cups of soda. Stop and talk to teenagers, though, and many say that they eat junk mainly when they're out of their parents' eyesight, especially when they're hanging out with friends. They have learned what it means to eat healthfully, they say, even though they often don't choose to do so. Take 17-year-old Porscha Hall, a high school senior in Washington, who says she usually skips breakfast and has chips, cookies, candy and soda - bought from school vending machines - for lunch. She often goes to a carryout restaurant after school for French fries, fried rice and egg rolls.... | |
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| | | Junk food recipes look like my work | | Posted Sunday, November 05, 2006 12:53:12 PM by Blog57 Team | | One of the (two) longtime readers of this column, my dad, recently mentioned to me that my sister had never made an appearance in one of my columns. I've written more than 600 columns, and she annoys me on a fairly regular basis, so I found it a little hard to believe I had never chosen to embarrass her in print. But no sooner were the words out of my dad's mouth than my sister found a way to make the column. But in a good way. I never realized how much my sister loved me until I opened her birthday present to me this year. .... | |
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| | | Latvia bans junk food sales in schools | | Posted Friday, November 03, 2006 3:16:53 PM by Blog57 Team | | RIGA, Latvia (AP) ? A comprehensive ban on the sale of junk food in Latvia's state schools went into force Wednesday as part of the country's drive to improve children's diets. European health experts have said Latvia is the first EU country to introduce a sweeping ban on junk food sales in public schools. School shops and cafeterias in the country of 2.3 million will no longer be able to sell soft drinks, candy bars, potato chips and chewing gum. Items containing artificial flavorings and colorings will also be banned from sale in primary and secondary schools. Officials said school children would still be able to bring junk food into schools, but the Health Ministry is hoping teachers will encourage pupils not to do this. As part of the program, the ministry will also promote healthy foods such as milk, juice and fruits.... | |
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| | | New rules on TV junk food ads 'too weak' | | Posted Tuesday, October 31, 2006 11:07:46 AM by Blog57 Team | | Health campaigners claim new rules to be published restricting the advertising of junk food to children on television will be too weak to halt the soaring levels of obesity. Ofcom, the broadcasting regulator, is finalising a series of recommendations, which it will present to the government, on how to limit the number of adverts seen by children for products that contain unhealthy high levels of fat, salt and sugar. But campaign groups such as the National Heart Forum, National Children's Bureau and food lobby group Sustain hit out yesterday at Ofcom's expected decision to reject widespread calls for all junk food commercials to be banned before the 9pm children's viewing 'watershed'. 'We are expecting a set of proposals that don't go far enough to tackle the crisis that we have in children's diet and reduce diet-related ill-health, such as obesity,' said Richard Watts of Sustain.... | |
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| | | Time has come for tax on junk food | | Posted Saturday, October 28, 2006 7:00:16 AM by Blog57 Team | | Ladies and gentlemen, stock up on your Twinkies. A tax on junk food could be coming to a province near you. Earlier this month, the British Columbia government said it is considering adding a new weapon to its sin tax arsenal -- the "junk food tax" -- in an attempt to curb the obesity epidemic that is spiralling out of control. Gordon Hogg, the B.C. minister responsible for healthy living, said "there's an allure to (a junk food tax) ... If we are going to have a positive impact on public behaviour, and benefits to the people of this province, then (a tax) is something we clearly have to look at." And B.C. isn't alone. In late September, the Medical Society of Prince Edward Island passed a resolution calling on the P.E.I. government to implement a "junk food tax." P.E.I.'s health minister says he's open to the concept.... | |
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| | | Junk food ban stings efforts to raise cash | | Posted Wednesday, October 25, 2006 2:57:22 AM by Blog57 Team | | State law has thrown California schools a curveball. This year, nutrition regulations have been tightened to ban many of students' favorite foods on campuses during school hours -- including candy, soda and most types of chips. The law was passed with the intention of fighting obesity. But the new rules have also hurt the wallets of many student groups and clubs.They counted on the sales of these kinds of foods for most of their money. ``The student store is one of our biggest fundraisers on campus,'' said Anna Giang, the Associated Student Body president at Willow Glen High in San Jose. The school's ASB used to earn a couple of thousand dollars a month from the sale of food at the store -- foods that are now banned. Unable to sell soda and other junk food, the student store suffered at beginning of this year.... | |
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