Stop The Insanity
This appeared on an AOL website.
By ERICA WERNER
.c The Associated Press
LOS ANGELES (Aug. 26) - Hoping to combat childhood obesity, the nation’s second-largest school district is expected to ban the sale of soft drinks at its 677 campuses. The sale of soda is already prohibited at elementary schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District, and the school board is set to vote Tuesday to extend the ban to the district’s approximately 200 middle and high schools.
Honestly, I don’t care if you stop selling sodas at school. That isn’t the issue here. The issue is, are they really doing it in an effort to combat childhood obesity? Give me a break. If they are truly interested in battling obesity in America’s teens, then serve better lunches. Don’t give them a Coke, but they can go through the line and choose a good ol’ slab of pizza, with more grease than bread. Certainly that would benefit our teens more than restricting their tendencies to abuse carbonated and caffeinated products.
Surely the school system has another reason to restrict the sale of soft-drinks at schools other than the weight of the students. If they were making a load of money on the project they most likely wouldn’t care if all children tipped the scales at 300+ and couldn’t fit into their gym shorts. Have a Coke and a smile………but lay off the damn twinkies.
