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• Celebrating birthdays at school

  Published: September 16, 2007, 8:03 am

  Tags: Birthday, Birthday Cake, Birthdaycake, Birthdays, Children, Classroom, Cupcake, Elementary School, Elementaryschool, Food Ban, Foodban, Junk Food, Junkfood, Kids, Parents, Public School, Publicschool, School, School Birthday Parties, Schoolbirthdayparties, Sugar, Sweets, Teach

  Filed under: Teachers, Elementary school, Public school, Private school, 6-7 years, BirthdaysEllie's 7th birthday falls on a school day this year. In the past, she attended a small private school where bringing treats to share with the class was not only allowed, it was expected. But now that she is public school, the rules have changed and the

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• Children and eating disorders

  Published: September 17, 2007, 5:26 am

  Tags: Anorexic, Broccoli, Bulimic, Eating Disorder, Eatingdisorder, Education, Fad Dieting, Faddieting, Fashion, Fruits, Issues Food, Issueswithfood, Junk Food, Junkfood, Kenyon College, Kenyoncollege, Models, Pregnant, Private School, Privateschool, Specific Foods, Specificfoods

  Filed under: Child Development, Feeding & Nutrition, Elementary school, Middle school, High school, Eating, 8-9 years, Preschooler, Pre-teen, Teenager, Peer pressure We all knew that girl in high school, the one who never ate anything. She was pencil thin, with paper thin hair and skin. She was anorexic or bulimic, but no one ever talked

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• Students sell banned junk food from their lockers like drugs

  Published: September 21, 2007, 7:30 am

  Tags: Candy, Eating Healthy, Eatinghealthy, Junk Food, Junkfood, Potato Chips, Potatochips, School, Soda

  Filed under: Health and Safety, Middle school, High schoolLike the high school version of prohibition, students are reacting to junk food bans at their schools by establishing black market operations for trafficking the goods under the administration's radar. Soda? Chips? Chocolate bars? Just when you thought they were gone for good, it turns

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• Junk meals -- how often?

  Published: November 21, 2007, 3:01 am

  Tags: Junk Food, Junkfood, Shopping

  Filed under: Moms, Stores and shoppingMy TV conked out on me two nights ago, and though we almost never watch it, the background din is always on in the morning and the house feels ghostly silent without it. I can hear my neighbours sloshing down the street in their rain boots in the early morning light, the angry couple arguing about her spending

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• Surprising junk food

  Published: November 26, 2007, 5:02 am

  Tags: Eating Healthy, Eatinghealthy, Junk Food, Junkfood, Quizno S, Veggie Sub, Veggiesub

  Filed under: RestaurantsQuickly: you're stopped at a red light with a crotchety child (or two) You're holiday shopping, desperately wishing you'd just done it online, already. In the back seat there ares snotty noses and wailing voices and it's been three hours since anyone ate anything. I'm hungry, small voices chime, and you grip the wheel.

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• How To Lose Fat By Accident (Part 2)...

  Published: December 12, 2007, 10:17 am

  Tags: Abs, Fat, Food, Health, Junkfood, Loss, Obese, Overweight, Six Pack, Weight Loss

  For those of you who are tuning in, and wondering what was it I discovered in my last write-up, it was a book. [YAWN] But wait! Ordinarily, I would not buy it. Just another one of those stupid how-to-eat-right books. I had made up my mind that nothing worked for me as far as fat reduction is concerned, remember? (Well, maybe liposuction

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• Which country loves their junk food the most?

  Published: January 27, 2008, 1:06 pm

  Tags: Different Countries, England, Food Habits, Junk Food, Junkfood, Survey, United States, Yahoo

  Filed under: Candy, Lists, Europe, Comfort Food, Fast FoodEarlier today, my mom called me to say she had sent me a link to an article she thought was interesting and might make a good Slashfood post (she's always looking out for me, that mother of mine). When I got home, I checked my email and found a link to this article, published on January

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• Healthy kid foods - not so healthy

  Published: August 4, 2008, 11:00 am

  Tags: Health, Healthy, Healthy Food Choices, Healthy Foods, Healthyfoodchoices, Healthyfoods, Junk Food, Junkfood, Kid Food, Kidfood, Kids Snacks, Kidssnacks, Marketing To Kids, Marketingtokids, Snacks

  Filed under: Eating & nutrition, MealtimeAnyone who has ever taken a child to the grocery store knows that food marketers who target children know their stuff. Sugary cereals are on the bottom shelf, and beloved cartoon characters adorn box after box of chewy, gooey, treats. Though marketers are well-schooled on attracting children to their

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• Junk Food is good for kids (to wear)

  Published: August 13, 2008, 6:49 pm

  Tags: Back To School, Batman, Beatles, Children, Clothing, Hello Kitty, Iron Man, Joker, Junk Food, Junkfood, Kids, Smurfs, Snoopy, T Shirts, Tees, Wonder Woman, Wonderwoman

  Filed under: Casual wear, Vintage wear, Men, Designers, Tops, Kids and Babies, Styles that StickWhit Honea is a slacker, a borderline degenerate, and a daydream believer. He's also our resident expert on casual chic. If it's comfortable, and not heinous, he's all over it. He's quite charming, really.Junk Food Clothing makes t-shirts for

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• Does an obese pregnancy lead to an obese child?

  Published: August 14, 2008, 11:00 am

  Tags: Calories, Cancer, Children, Diabetes, Doctors, Fats, Fatter, Fetuses, Geneitc Predisposition, Geneitcpredisposition, Genetic, Heart Disease, Heartdisease, Junk Food, Junkfood, New York Times, Newyorktimes, Obese, Obses, Pregnant, Rats, Sugar, Surgery, Women

  Filed under: Newborns, Pregnancy & birth, Eating & nutrition, In the news, Mealtime Several studies in a recent New York Times article entitled "Honey, I Plumped the Kids" seem to be pointing in that direction. As we all know by now, human beings are getting bigger--and by bigger, I really mean fatter. In 2005 it was estimated there were

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