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...your report on obesity in children [HEALTH, Aug. 25]: Tobacco and alcoholic beverages are unhealthy and unnecessary. Society has chosen to impose taxes on them in proportion to the problems they cause. Why not a tax on junk food? The resulting income could fund medical research, provide health insurance for children from low-income families and build gyms at elementary schools. Of course, legislators would have to resist lobbyists willing to sweeten campaign funds with some plump gifts, but maybe, for the health of America, it's time to cut the fat. DONNA KEISER Corpus Christi, Texas...
When it comes to branding, companies are drawn not only to green but to "green." Organic beauty products like Dr. Hauschka's count among their fans Brad Pitt and Julia Roberts. The organic-food craze has even penetrated the junk-food market with products like Tostitos Organic Blue Corn Tortilla Chips...
...famous in the '70s for letting dieters have their steak and eat it too. Atkins controverted conventional dietary wisdom by asserting that eating fatty foods like bacon wasn't what caused weight gain. The real culprit, he said, was carbohydrates--the sugar and starch that are especially abundant in junk food. An estimated 25 million dieters have tried to follow his edict that if deprived of carbs as a source of energy, the body will burn fat. Although doctors and dietitians dismissed the Atkins plan for years--many blamed it for everything from bad breath to kidney damage...
...Advertise on TV and through other forms of media the dangers of unhealthy foods. Promote fitness as well. Since good eating habits start at a young age, require that the curriculum in schools cover nutrition and have kids be tested on it. Market healthy foods to kids instead of junk foods. Finally, give tax benefits to companies that have gyms or that give gym memberships to employees. Ben Hoult Hyattsville...
Some dawdle in the Square, stopping to listen to the rhythmic clatter of the Funk and Junk players in the Pit. Others pause to chat with friends or to browse the Coop’s bookshelves. The influx of mob makers blends seemlessly with the traffic of tourists and eccentrics that fills the Square each...