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Students sell banned junk food in schools like drugs

Posted on Sep 24th 2007 10:38AM by Brian White
In something that sounds like a kickback to the 1960s, kids in schools are acting like pseudo-drug dealers by selling junk foods to other kids from lockers and places like behind playground bushes.

Is junk food contraband? From a nutritional point of view, the banning of such foods from more schools is likely to make things like candy bars and gummy bears loaded with sugar missing from any school activity.

In proper historical fashion, the more an item is banned, the more some kids will be drawn to the rebellion, so to speak. My view? So much junk food is addictive that it's almost like depriving a drug addict of his or her fix by taking this kind of 'food' away from kids who have a physical and emotional attachment to these products.

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