With the 'Smart Snacks in School' standards, schools are only allowed to sell Low Fat, Low Card, Diet, Etc. type foods and drinks. Because of this, students do not want to buy food from the school anymore. This is crippling clubs that once were supported by fund raisers they can no longer have anymore. To add on top of this, Diet Sodas have been proven to be worse for health rather than non-diet sodas. Diet Sodas have been linked High Blood Pressure, Weight Retention, Depression, Diabetes and more! Proving that forcing only diet sodas to be sold in schools is not going to help with Childhood Obesity or helping the health of youth. Also, people who drink diet soda have a 34% more likely hood of developing Metabolic Syndrome than people who drink Non-Diet Soda. http://tinyurl.com/mb5cvgp



