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Monday, January 25, 2010

Lawmakers take aim at junk food in schools



Video Courtesy of KSL.com

 A calculate on Utah's Capitol Hill aims to bounds junk food available in the state's schools.

Sen. Pat Jones, D-Holladay, is sponsoring a measure that gives school accord councils a balloting in what is offered in vending machines. The bill, which is ease being drafted, would require schools to go through a council balloting in a public meeting to offer things same candy and soda.


\"I think we need to start looking at that kind of hindrance so that we can save long-term on some of our health and human service needs,\" Jones told KSL Newsradio.

Junk food has been a moneymaker for schools, but the Salt Lake Tribune reports in past years some like Bountiful Junior High and Riverton High School have eliminated options from vendition machines that aren't as healthy.

Numbers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show exclusive 18 proportionality of Utah region schools and broad schools in 2008 did not sell candy and high-fat snacks.



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