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It's as important for children to know how to prevent heart disease, cancer and diabetes as it is for children to learn geography, ... These are important life skills that are not intuitively obvious.

Margo Wootan

 Cancer

Disco-era nutrition standards don't make sense in 2006.

Margo Wootan

 Disco

This is a good step toward reducing artery-clogging fat in french fries, but it doesn't make french fries a health food.

Margo Wootan

 

The money from soda contracts comes out of children's and parents' pockets. Coke, Pepsi, and other junk-food marketers enjoy being in schools because they know it is one of the only places they can target kids without parental interference.

Margo Wootan

 Food

[Communities that do step up to reverse poor nutrition trends often face considerable opposition from soda and junk food manufacturers, but while] it used to be that industry always won, that's not always the case now, ... because schools are already in the business of feeding children; it's a matter of changing what's offered, not necessarily taking on new responsibilities.

Margo Wootan

 Food

It's impressive that Kraft was able to do two 100 percent whole-grain cookies.

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This means that the policy effectively does not address high schools at all because it won't affect the status quo.

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The definition is out of date and out of sync with current nutritional concerns for children,

Margo Wootan

 Children

Schools can make money without selling junk food.

Margo Wootan

 Food

I work in this area, and I don't even know what some of those things are referring to.

Margo Wootan

 Work