Southern Mexico state bans junk food sales to children
(World News USA)

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Legislators in southern Mexico have approved a ban on selling high-calorie snack food to children, seeking to combat one of the world`s highest rates of childhood obesity. A first of its kind in Mexico, the measure approved Wednesday by the Oaxaca state legislature would fine shopkeepers for selling or giving away high-calorie snack food like sodas, pastries or chips to anyone under 18, unless an accompanying parent or guardian authorized it. The bill, which has to be signed by the Oaxaca governor to become law, also would ban...