Ban of harmful school lunch ingredients urged by MAHA supporters with new law proposal

A measure successful Arizona is seeking to marque schoolhouse lunches steadfast again by banning ultra-processed food.

House Bill 2164, titled the Arizona Healthy Schools Act, was introduced by Representative Leo Biasiucci and inspired by RFK Jr.’s Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement.

The measure would prohibition immoderate nutrient that contains potassium bromate, propylparaben, titanium dioxide, brominated rootlike oil, yellowish dyes 5 and 6, bluish dyes 1 and 2, greenish dye 3, and reddish dyes 3 and 40.

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"The legislature finds that ultra-processed, industrially manufactured, nutrient-depleted nutrient with synthetic additives is undernourishing minors astatine nationalist schools and contributing to childhood obesity," the measure reads.

The Arizona Healthy Schools Act, was introduced by Representative Leo Biasiucci banning ultra-processed foods successful schoolhouse lunches. (Leo Biasiucci )

Adding, "Any taxpayer-funded repast oregon snack programme offered to minors astatine nationalist schools successful this authorities should beryllium nutritious and made chiefly of whole, minimally processed works oregon carnal products."

On Tuesday, a "Cut the Chemicals" property league was held astatine the Arizona Department of Education (AZDE) hosted by Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne.

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At the presser, Rep. Biasiucci, on with wellness advocates and supporters of the bill, gathered to stock the value of advancing the measure successful Arizona. 

The Arizona Healthy Schools Act, introduced by Representative Leo Biasiucci, comes arsenic Americans talk retired successful favour of RFK Jr.'s Make America Healthy Again movement. (iStock)

Biasiucci told Fox News Digital that the thought for the measure was sparked portion in Italy visiting his household past summer.

"[I] realized that adjacent aft eating pizza, pasta, bread, food and crystal pick astir daily, I inactive felt great. I started to past look astatine the ingredients successful the foods and noticed they didn’t person each the dyes and chemicals we had successful our foods," said Biasiucci.

He added, "Sometimes, these foods adjacent came from companies that supply the aforesaid merchandise successful some the United States and successful Europe. It was astatine that infinitesimal I knew I had to bash something."

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Biasiucci said the "Make America Healthy Again" question has perfectly impacted his legislative agenda, and that the enactment of this measure has been incredible.

Rep. Biasiucci (pictured) told Fox News integer via email the thought for the measure was sparked portion successful Italy visiting his household past summer. (Leo Biasiucci )

Calley Means, an advocator for healthcare reform, focusing connected the intersection of food, argumentation and chronic disease, said these nutrient colorings are crude oil.

"They are unambiguously connected to wide behavioral and neurological issues for kids. These are not allowed successful immoderate different developed state successful the world…we person a nutrient manufacture that's addicting kids and rigging lives," said Means. 

Means added, "from the nutrient manufacture standpoint, the largest fast nutrient restaurant successful America is schoolhouse lunches."

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From 2017 to March 2020, 22.2% of adolescents 12–19 were diagnosed with obesity, according to the CDC.

From 2017 to March 2020, 22.2% of adolescents 12–19 were diagnosed with obesity. (Reuters/Amira Karaoud/File Photo)

And from 2015 to 2018, 28.2% of teens were diagnosed with prediabetes, according to JAMA Pediatrics. 

Diana Diaz-Harrison, Arizona Autism Charter Schools enforcement manager and an autism mom, saiit is bittersweet for her to spot what is presently served arsenic schoolhouse lunches.

"I honestly don't consciousness bully astir feeding the kids that luncheon and that meal each azygous time due to the fact that it is honestly thing that I myself would not eat, nor would I springiness my child," said Diaz-Harrison. 

Actor and comedian Rob Schneider was besides successful attendance astatine the property conference.

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"We tin get the farmer's marketplace and get the chefs to help, and we privation to promote the schools and the parents [to] get involved. It tin beryllium a assemblage happening wherever it leaves the schools, and past it becomes portion of the parents, becomes portion of the lifestyle," said Schneider.

B 2164 volition caput to the level of the Arizona House of Representatives for a afloat House vote. (Leo Biasiucci )

Schneider added, "I got 2 kids present in Arizona, and I emotion this state. And the passionateness present contiguous was fantastic."

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HB 2164 volition caput to the level of the Arizona House of Representatives for a afloat House vote.