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Article: Taking the 'choice' out of food choices?(health foods)
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- Dairy Field
- Article date:
- October 1, 2005
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Limiting access to foods, taxing high-fat foods, establishing a minimum purchase age for certain foods or stocking some snack foods out of customers' reach are all methods being put in place to help mitigate the overweight problem in this country. Likewise, many schools and departments of education across the country are establishing nutritional standards defining "allowable" snack foods available for sale to schoolchildren.
There is much debate within the nutrition and health communities as to whether regulating healthy choices through such means is an effective--and desirable--way to improve eating habits. To what extent can we expect the consumer to make ...