Government officials announced on Saturday that the schools of Mexico would be banned.
The Junk food barrier It is part of the government’s healthy living program, which cooperates between the Ministry of Public Education (Sep) and the Ministry of Health. This ban applies to public and private schools in all level education.
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The Ministry of Education of Mexico has announced a ban on social media site X, “Farewell, junk food!”
“One of the main policies of the New Mexican School Association, is a healthy life,” said Union Education Minister Mario Degado. “Accepting this policy among parents is at high level.”
Health Guidelines were released last October.
“Eating a bean taco is more good than potato chips,” Mexican President Claudia Shinebam, who argued, “he said when the guidelines were introduced in October.
Under new guidelines, schools will show any food and drink of one or more black warning logo, which will indicate too much of salt, sugar, calories or fat. The warning label system was introduced in 2020 to inform consumers about food products.
According to Sep, all schools across the country can no longer sell junk food:
- Peanut
- Donuts
- Flon
- Hamburgers
- Hot Dog
- Juice boxes, soda or carbonated drinks
- French fries
- Cake
- Pizza
- Sicarons (fried bacon debris)
- Gyeridos (pickled pork)
- Syrup
- Candy
- Cream pops and ice cream
- Milk
- Nachos with cheese
- Industrialized snacks
You can sell foods such as school co -operatives and snacks:
- Fresh fruits and vegetables
- Sweets made of seeds and/or whole grains (without fat or sugar) such as natural popcorn or Amarant bars
- Mixed nuts (such as walnuts, almonds, cranberry or eggplant).
- Herbal or fruit infusion, and natural tea.
- Pulses: such as wide beans, lentils and kidney beans.
- Foods of the appearance of animals such as panala cheese, jogok, cheese, eggs and chicken.
- Grains including corn tortillas, full wheat bread and oats.
Schools should provide more nutritious food and drink alternatives to this ban. School administrators who violate the ban may be fined 545 to 5,450 pesos (US $ 27 and 666).
A junk food infection
The government is implementing a change in dealing with one of the worst obesity and diabetes infections in the world. According to data from the National Health and Nutrition Survey, 37% of Mexican children between the ages of 5 and 11 are obese.
UNICEF is classified as an emergency of Mexico’s childhood obesity infection. The largest consumer Mexico, the largest-reformed product, including sugar drinks in Latin America, According to the agency. The company said that sugar drinks and high -processed foods are 40% of the total calories consumed in a day.
Trapped Area: Enforcement
When this action is a step in the right direction, it is difficult to implement. In the past, monitoring 255,000 schools in Mexico in Mexico, many of which are water springs and even electricity.
The government has not yet announced how he plans to implement the ban on schools.
Renata Judith de La Torre Lay, Director of the Jalisco Education Ministry (SEJ), said that school administrators would need school administrators to notify non -compliance officers.
“We want to provide this support in all our schools, and we believe that it is important to convey to the end of the economic obstacles (it is important to convey to the snack of potential violations),” De La Torray explained.
With reports from Associated PressOvarian Entry And Turquoise
