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The Washington, D.C. city council yesterday agreed to fully fund a recently approved "Healthy Schools" initiative -- providing more money for school food, as well as funding local produce in school meals and establishing grants to expand school gardens and increase physical education -- but not with a controversial "soda tax" as had been proposed.
DC rejects soda tax but funds better school food
Seeded on Thu May 27, 2010 5:49 PM EDT
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Let’s Move needs to get real with the food industry:
We have learned over the last decade and to our great chagrin that a change in administration can undo decades of good government. The more that Let's Move relies on industry good behavior and bully pulpit exhortations from the White House as it tries to avoid writing policies into law that might change the underlying structural foundation of the obesity epidemic, the more likely we are to risk falling back to old patterns once our enthusiasm flags or -- dare I say it -- a Republican returns to the White House, which could happen well before the final obesity benchmark in 2030.
Drops in the bucket, even dozens of them, just won't get the job done.
http://www.grist.org/article/Lets-Move-needs-to-get-real-with-the-food-industry/
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