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• Position: School - Teen nutrition - Brief Article

For many teens, lunch--and maybe breakfast, too--drops out of a school vending machine: a can of soda to wash down a candy bar and a bag of chips.

Now some states, worried by rising teen obesity, are striking back by placing strict limits on the sale of candy, soft drinks, and fatty snacks in schools. Nearly a dozen states are considering legislation to turn off school vending machines during class time, strip them of sweets, or impose new taxes on soft drinks to pay for teacher salaries and breakfast programs.

The push grew out of new teen statistics from the...