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Winter 2007
CENTERSCENE OPINION
School Food in Dollars and Sense
"In the past three decades, the incidence of overweight and obese children in America has increased 300 percent. These conidtions have become the fastest growing causes of disease and death in this country.

For the first time in modern history, we have a generation of children whose life expectancy may be lower than that of their parents," says Patti Miller, vice president of the nonpartisan research and advocacy organization Children Now and a leading advocate for creating a healthier media environment for children. "While many factors contribute to this public health crisis, there is no question that it is being exacerbated by junk food marketing targeted at children."

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Our current school food system is killing our kids. Tater tots, chicken nuggets fruit drowned in high-fructose corn syrup, a carrot stick and a cup of milk inexplicably meet the federal government's nutritional standards. And because that meal is 18 percent cheaper - about 50 cents - than a lunch of roast chicken, a baked potato wedge and a fresh fruit and vegetable, we justify feeding it to our children and effectively teaching them that junk food is okay if the price is right.

Such are the dollars and nonsense of todays school food system.
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CONFONTING THE CRISIS OF CHILDHOOD OBESITY
Advocates Combat Junk Food Marketing to Children
Author and Advocate Marion Nestle Sees Organizing Around Food Issues as "Democracy in Action"
Marion Nestle, Ph.D., M.P.H., is a nationally renowed food policy expert and the best-selling author of What to Eat: An Aisle-by-Aisle Guide to Savvy Food Choices and Good Eating (2006), along with two previous books, Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health (revised edition, 2007) and Safe Food:Bacteria, Biotechnology, and Bioterrorism (2003). Centerscene interviewed Nestle in advance of her upcoming appearance at the Center for Healthy Communities.
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Photos from recent events at the Center for Healthy Communities.

Students attending the Los Angeles unified School District's 6th Annual Nutrition Advisory Council Symposium. on September 25 prepared their favorite after-school snack. The councils are student-led groups that do peer nutrition education.
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