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Mexico bans junk food sales in schools in its latest salvo against child obesity (www.thecanadianpressnews.ca)

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[–] real_squids@sopuli.xyz 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

If base meals are free I don't see an issue with selling small snacks. At least that's how it was for me, ymmv

[–] Stern@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Mexico has a serious obesity and diabetes problem. Worse then the U.S. even, though only by a couple tenths a percent currently. Makes sense to try and rein it in.

[–] real_squids@sopuli.xyz 3 points 4 months ago

Yeah but you can still offer healthy snacks, back in my school I could buy apples, bananas, other fruits in season. Sure, I would like that stuff to be free for kids, but in the meantime might as well sell it. If it's really bad, you could set a limit of items per person.