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More Sports, Less Junk Food

New law restrict the sale of junk food in schools.

 In Chile there is a new project that consist in a law that prohibits marketing of junk food in primary school, secondary school and high school.

 Also the law restrict their advertisements, especially to children. This is not the only thing that Chile wants, the other one is, to increase two to four hours of physical education in schools.

 This is very good in the sense of reducing overweight, because they want to stop selling junk food in schools and also complement that with doing sports.

 The only thing that is remaining now is to sent the project to the parliament, but the idea is concrete and it would be good if results, because Chile need good sportsmen to represent the country and also to reduce the level of overweight and obesity, so the better thing is, to start with children teaching them to have good habits.

 An extra information that I want to add is that, the “Centro de Investigación Euromonitor” established that in Chile are consumed $ 25 thousand pesos a year on junk food per person. Of this total, only 27% goes on burgers. But this is a moderate figure comparing it with other countries like the United States of America, because they consume 300.000 thousand pesos per person annually in junk food.

Diego Morales Hartmann.