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...America's growing obesity epidemic in the place they can do the most good: the schools. Beginning now and progressing through the 2009-10 school year, the manufacturers will kick high-calorie, sugary drinks out of school vending machines and replace them with bottled water, unsweetened fruit juices, low-fat milk and sugar-free sodas--all served in smaller portions. And that's only the first move in Clinton's campaign to fight fat. His foundation is planning to turn its attention next to vending-machine snack foods and cafeteria lunches and is even in negotiations with fast-food companies...
...soda deal, in the meantime, will affect at least 35 million school-age children, and by any measure it comes none too soon. Two-thirds of U.S. adults are overweight or obese, and so are a shocking 17% of kids, with another 15% at risk. Children who start life fat often stay that way, with all the attendant health consequences. Kids as young as 10 are turning up with obesity-related Type 2 diabetes, which used to be known as the adult-onset form of the disease. The Clinton-backed plan would cut off a significant part of the sugar...
Whatever the merits of the deal, the way it came about is one more step in the always unfolding narrative of the man whose presidency was as much about his personal weaknesses as his political deftness. For all the bonhomie with which Clinton bore the fat-man jokes thrown at him, it's hard to imagine they bounced off as easily as he made it seem they did. He was widely mocked for his oversize--and overwhite--thighs in the infamous jogging shorts, and there was no end to the snarky media remarks about his ballooning girth on the campaign...
...directly with catering companies, purchasers and school nutritionists. Negotiations with fast-food restaurants--where kids spend an awful lot of social time, often without their parents--are employing another strategy, focusing less on adding healthy menu items that kids don't often eat and more on cutting back the fat and calories in pizzas, fries and other things they serve...
...boom times last? Russia has set aside a portion of its oil revenues in a so-called stabilization fund that tops $55 billion, and Moscow is running a budget surplus equal to 7% of GDP. But economists are worried that the Kremlin hasn't used the fat years to cut back on the remnants of Soviet-era bureaucracy, modernize Russian industry or improve the overall investment climate. "Russia will continue to be hooked on oil revenue for the foreseeable future," says Ivan Szegvari, a Russian-economy specialist at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in London. Retailing is booming...