By: David Gutierrez
he Mexican government is moving forward with plans to ban all junk foods from public school by the start of the coming school year, officials have announced.
“The kids are going to complain, of course,” said education minister Alonso Lujambio. “We are going to start a profound cultural change.”
In January, President Felipe Calderon launched a major anti-obesity campaign, and government officials have regularly referred to Mexican children as the world’s fattest. While the merits of this specific claim are open to dispute, it is well confirmed that obesity rates in Mexico are rapidly approaching those of its northern neighbor, and that 4.5 million children between the ages of five and 11 — 26 percent — are already overweight or obese.
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