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Post: Not Out to Lunch

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Not Out to Lunch

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Christopher Kimball, the founder of America’s Test Kitchen, recently started a new project: Parents Against Junk Food, a non-profit organization trying to stop the sale of junk food in America's schools.

In a new article, "An Inconvenient Lunch," he proposes that our country's current obesity crisis is not due simply to the $15 billion junk food companies spend each year to target kids -- or to school's who sell these products. Who is the enemy then? According to Kimball: "It is ourselves."

Click here to read the whole article, including Kimball's five-point plan for fighting back.

To become a member of Parents Against Junk Food, click here.

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