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Article: Contra Costa, Calif., School District Bans Soda, Junk Food.
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- August 30, 2003
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By Kara Shire, Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Aug. 30--RICHMOND, Calif.--Banning soda in schools is so passe. At many West Contra Costa campuses, they've banned Hostess.
That's right. No more Twinkies. No more Ding Dongs. No more Snow Balls.
And that's not all.
In an effort to curb rising obesity in children and get ahead of expected government mandates on the healthfulness of school lunches, the West Contra Costa school district has rid many of its middle school cafeterias of candy, soda and those ubi...uitous slices of greasy Red Baron pizza.
Gone are the bags of Ruffles, ...