Mexico bans junk food sales in schools in an attempt to reduce child obesity

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1. Would be interesting to know the percentage of US based junk food in the system and if it was a bonus to tariff retaliation.

   But regardless, wish more countries would start taking nutritional health seriously. Ole!

2. I heard they drink coke more than water in mexico

3. 0% chance a black market will arise 

4. Why isn’t RFK’s health department doing this? Oh wait, he just goes after conspiracy theories about what is actually fucking our kids up. Couldn’t be the multinational food corporations he might want to protect at all…. Cause he’s totally not getting kick backs…..

5. one thing that desperately needs to be made great again is school cafeterias.

6. Could fake a bus strike.

7. What will those kids do without their breakfast Takis?

8. Wow… People don’t realize how big this is (no pun intended)

   Back when I was in the equivalent of early Elementary school in Mexico, practically all the schools had junk food vendors (both freshly made, like corn dipped in mayonnaise and spices for example, pastries, fatty foods in general, as well as packaged food like bags of chips and other sweets) that often parked outside or sometimes were present in the school itself to sell a shit ton of unhealthy stuff.

   Delicious? Fuck yeah. Horrible? Oh SHIT YEAH…

   This would indicate a paradigm shift as when I was there, a significant volume of my peers were overweight already, and at an early age too. Sure, junk is plentiful outside, but it’s still gonna impact the access to such junky stuff readily at the premises.

   My guess is they’re just gonna pack some empanadas or other fatty shit, but hey, it’s gonna make it a bit harder perhaps.

   We’ll see, it’s not like food down there is generally healthier so when they go home nothing stops them from having other junk type food

9. The history of Mexican obesity started when the junk food companies paid women to sell in their communities like Avon ladies.

10. Last time I went I thought it was pretty cool they had those warning labels on extra salty foods like their chips ect

11. Currently in Baja, the junk food here is insane, like walls of it in small bodegas. I see kids purchase a bag of Taki’s and a soda all the time, and lots and lots of overweight Latinos. The awareness is completely lacking as to how bad that shit is. Hopefully this is a start.

12. God for them. This should be worldwide. Actually junk food should be banned in most places.

13. I’m in Mexico now. All soda cans have black shields saying high calorie and high sugar content to remind people of what they’re actually drinking. Saw it on bags of chips too

14. Jamie Oliver is gonna hear about this

15. Chile did it too a few years ago, it’s didn’t work

16. Oh Diabeeto…

17. This is an easy problem to fix – don’t let ANY us food companies into the country.

18. Oh, they didn’t do this like years ago? Maybe that was soda

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