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values, total calories, saturated and total fat percentages, sodium | content, sugar content and total carbohydrate content; |
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| | 5. Directs school boards, after September 2007 to prohibit | advertising of foods and beverages other than "healthy foods and | beverages" on school grounds; |
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| | 6. Directs the Department of Education, by January 2006, in | collaboration with the Maine Dairy and Nutrition Council, to | implement a pilot program to install dairy vending machines | selling flavored and unflavored milk with 1% or less fat in | schools; |
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| | 7. Prohibits schools from using food and beverages as a reward | or incentive for learning or behavior in a school setting; |
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| | 8. Requires that, after December 2005, at the termination of | an existing contractual agreement for teachers in a school | administrative unit, the new contractual agreement must provide | at least 20-minute lunch periods for students and teachers; |
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| | 9. Directs the Department of Education and the Department of | Agriculture, Food and Rural Resources to collaborate to implement | the National Farm to School Program to provide local fruits and | vegetables in schools; |
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| | 10. Requires confidential assessments of the height and | weight of all Maine schoolchildren in kindergarten and grades 1, | 3, 5, 7 and 9 and compilation and reporting of this data. Each | school also is required to provide the parents of schoolchildren | who participate in this assessment with a confidential report on | their child's weight, height and body-mass index, as well as | accompanying information; |
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| | 11. Directs schools to require elementary and middle school | students to participate in 150 minutes of physical activity per | week outside of recess and high school students to participate in | 220 minutes of physical activity per week and establishes a | physical education consultant position within the Department of | Education; and |
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| | 12. Directs the Department of Health and Human Services, | Bureau of Health and the Attorney General to determine by January | 31, 2006 whether advertising of foods and beverages other than | "healthy foods and beverages," as defined by rule, directed at | children 12 years of age or younger legally can be and should be | restricted on Maine television stations. Additionally, the | Bureau of Health is directed to make a report of its findings to | the Legislature. |
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