http://www.time.com/time/question/sora_song_060504.html
"In a deal brokered by former president Bill Clinton and the American Heart Association, the nation's three largest soft-drink companies - Coca-Cola, PepsiCo and Cadbury Schweppes - have voluntarily agreed to stop selling high-calorie sodas and sugary drinks, like iced tea and lemonade, to American schools. Instead, the beverage manufacturers, which stock about 90% of all school cafeterias and vending machines, will supply younger students with only bottled water, low-fat and nonfat milk and 100% fruit juice. High schools will still get low-calorie drinks, sports drinks and diet sodas."
I think this is a good idea, but i'm not sure it will work. In high school I would drink 2-3 cans of Mountain Dew everyday. I don't agree that this is the reason kids are overweight. I was not overweight. They do not get enough excercise. Parents, not only schools, have to take responsibility to teach kids how to live a healthy lifestyle. But will this stop kids from keeping pop in their lockers? And at home, will they still have access to junk food? For change to happen, i think there has to be a 'lifestyle' change. This is a good start, but it's only a start.
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At the high school I attend we did not get soft drinks the first semester of this year but when we came back from Christmas we had soft drinks. The drink companies get most of their money from schools and schools get money from that too. the students just wouldn't get a drink rather than get something they don't want. so it will probably never last.
~Haley~
I think it is a good think. I know that this measure alone won't make a great change, but it is a beginning.
It is a good idea, considereing that the choices will e healthier is we have a healty selection.
I don't think it will work because students can always go to a fast-food restaurant or grocery store to buy a soda.
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