Food Industry Braces for New Study on Marketing to Kids; Retired military leaders want junk foods out of schools; What is Junk Food?

Food Industry Braces for New Study on Marketing to Kids
ABC News
Sam Brownback and Tom Harkin, had been tasked with developing recommendations for the nutritional quality of food marketed to kids ages 2 to 17.

Retired military leaders want junk foods out of schools
USA TODAY
The analysis says that junk food adds up to 400 billion "empty" calories in a year or the calories in almost 2 billion candy bars, which would weigh almost 90,000 tons, more than the weight of the aircraft carrier Midway (70,000 tons).
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What exactly is Junk Food?

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Restaurant foods for takeout, catering, business meetings, team lunches, conferences, and sporting events.