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Are junk food laws working to curb kids' obesity?
Posted: 08.13.2012 at 7:30 AM
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In this 2006 photo, a student purchases a brown sugar Pop-Tart from a vending machine in the hallway outside the school cafeteria, in Wichita, Kan.  / AP photo
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The first study of its kind suggests that strict laws restricting junk food sales in schools may actually be working.

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