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Banning junk food in schools is effective / Jonathon M. Seidl -- Banning junk food in schools is not effective / John Metallo -- A ban on junk food may harm school funding / Brian M. Rosenthal -- Schools can find alternative funding to junk food / Marian Kisch -- Junk food in schools contributes to obesity and threatens US security / William Christeson et al. -- Junk food in schools does not contribute to obesity / Jennifer Van Hook and Claire E. Altman -- Banning soda machines in schools will reduce obesity / Carol Duh-Leong -- Eating healthy foods during short lunch periods is hard for students / Joanna Lin -- Healthy, organic, and cheap school lunches? Order up / Greg Toppo -- Schools depend on snack sales to keep cafeterias solvent / Mary Beth Pfeiffer -- Planting school gardens can change students' eating habits / Michele Israel -- School lunches : the new battlefront in the war against obesity / John Dorschner.