Junk Food: Nothing To Snickers About!

Lame skits abound in this guide to the perils of junk food which is aimed at high school teens. Basically, an elderly woman who encounters teenagers in her travels reads them the riot act on sugar and fatty foods. In the opening segment, she takes a high schooler's bag of potato chips away, and stomps them into the sidewalk--which gives you an idea of how mature the material offered here is. When Junk Food is not playing out bad skits, it offers a reasonable overview of the importance of reading labels, a guide to the various names for sugar, an explanation of cholesterol, and a word of warning about the dangers of crash dieting. Some middle and high schools might be interested in this as a discussion starter about nutrition, but this is way too juvenile to appeal to anyone but a captive (i.e. school) audience. Not a necessary purchase. (See COMMON CHILDHOOD ILLNESSES for availability.)