Are thin mints on thin ice?There's nothing more beloved than Girl Scout cookies. Tastewise, it's hard to beat 'em. And it's nearly impossible to beat the revenues: $700 million to support Girt girt 1 v. girt·ed, girt·ing, girts v.tr. 1. To gird. 2. To secure with a girth. 3. To measure the girth of. v.intr. To measure in girth. Scout activities. But one New Jersey mom has called for a boycott of Girt Scout cookies. Given the astronomical growth in childhood obesity childhood obesity Public health Overweight in a child, an average BMI of ≥ 85% for age and sex; ≥ 95% for age and sex is very obese. See Body-mass index, Obesity. Cf Adult obesity. and juvenile diabetes juvenile diabetes n. Insulin-dependent diabetes. , is it really so nutty to ask if the Girt Scouts need to be in the business of setting 200 million boxes of cookies a year? Or, to put it another way, if Girl Scouts Girl Scouts, recreational and service organization founded (1912) in Savannah, Ga., by Mrs. Juliette Gordon Low (1860–1927). It was originally modeled after the Boy Scouts and Girl Guides, organizations created in Great Britain by Sir Robert Baden-Powell during were created today, as an organization devoted to helping raise healthy, empowered girls who make smart choices, would the ideal, fund-raiser be something that makes all of us even fatter? Ending Girl Scout cookies won't end obesity, says the Scout organization. Still, as one expert asks, Where do you start changing the food culture? |
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