The French eat a greater diversity of fresh food, but less of it. French school lunches feature items like beet salad, butter beans, grated carrot salad, cauliflower casserole, endive and even escargots. Vending machines are banned at school and beverages are limited to water. France has a soda tax on all soft drinks and advertisements for junk food carry a health warning.Read more in this editorial which recently appeared in the British newspaper, The Guardian. It reviews many policies that have been discussed at length in the United States but never enacted. What do you think? Will it take heavy government intervention to turn this epidemic around?
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