Healty Food- Making its Way into Our Schools

We have been starting to notice it all over our cafeteria. Fat free ice cream. Vegetable pizza. 100-calorie Oreo cookies. Some of the food tastes good, but some we think is just going way too far. In an article I read on CNN, it talked about how healthier food and drinks are slowly taking over our school lunches. They have begun this process after the fact that 12 million kids between the ages of 2 and 19 are overweight. If they can change the way Americans eat in the school systems, maybe they can change the way Americans eat all the time. During this past January, Bravo! Brands Inc. started selling a 150-calorie, 8-ounce bottle of flavored milk in about 8,000 schools across the country. Some flavors of this new health-efficient drink are Starburst, or Milkyway. They are also going to start selling low-fat smoothies and yogurt in school cafeterias. In order to be able to sell in schools, company spokesman Charles Nicolas said, "Pepsi is reformulating its popular Doritos, Cheetos and Quaker products for the 2007-2008 school year..." This is proving that many main companies want to play a role in making America a healthier country. I think that all food industries should work their way into making their products- and the world- healthier for the new generations.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/diet.fitness/04/13/schools.healthy.foods.reut/index.html