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This is the trailer of the Post, the movie dealing with the Pentagon Papers. The begining of the trailer shows a conversation between the publisher and the executive editor of the Washington Post talking about some highly classified documents about the Vietnam war.
Obviously, the US government lied about the Vietnam War and hid the truth about the US involvement in the war. The Federal Court barred the New York Tines from publishing further classified information for national security reasons. The Washigton Post with Mr. Bradlee and Mrs.Graham kept on publishing and exposing the classified documents which would be devastating information.

Even if it's considered as a breach of the state secret nevertheless Ms.Graham and the editor had to make though choices to publish them in spite of the risk of having issues with the Court and of going to prison and for Mrs. Graham losing the company and her fortune. The stakes were indeed very high.

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The film is inspired from real events, "The Post" takes place in 1971 and it’s about the case of the "Pentagon Papers" : one of the first scoops in the history of American journalism in the 1970s. The main characters are Washington Post journalists.Tom Hanks who plays the role of Ben Bradlee, the executive editor of the Washington Post and Meryl Streep who plays Katharine Graham the publisher, will disclose information about highly classified documents : the United States voluntarily brought about the Vietnam War. The government lied about it. This leak will cause a scandal. The New York Times started publishing those classified documents first and a Federal Court forbade the newspaper from publishing. So the Washigton Post another newspaper published and fought back. Who would the winner be? Let’s see the movie....

By Shadine.

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The post is a historial political thriller film produced and directed by spielberg.
The movie happens in the early 1970s. It speak about the thrue story of The Washington post who published the Pentagon Papers. The Pentagon Papers were classified documents of the United States Government about the Vietnam War.
Meryl Streep played katharine Graham, the first female publisher of an American newspaper, and Tom Hanks played Ben bradlee, the executive editor of the Washington post.
The studio is 20th century Fox.

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In the movie of Steven Spielberg, The Post. The newspaper, The Washington Post revealed highly classified documents. He discovers a lie of the united state on the Vietnam War. The Supreme Court barred to publish. Therefore in the movie, the publisher Meryl Streep and a chief editor Tom Hanks have make tough choices because they was putting at stake the life and the newspaper. The Pentagon Paper have been a full history and a devastating news.

Ivana

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“The Post” tells the story of the classified documents from the pentagon who are expose in the newspaper, choosing to focus on two key players who are katherine Graham, the Washington Post pulisher and Ben Bradlee the chef editor, in the unfolding battle between the free press and a White House that struggled to keep the secrets of how the American government handled the Vietnam War under wraps.
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The Post is an American historic movie directed by Steven Spielberg, released in 2017. It is inspired by real facts. Thousands of confidential pages which reveal the political and military implication of the United States in the Vietnam War from 1945 till 1967 were printed and released to the public In 197. Those documents are passed on in the editorial staff of the New York Times then in that of the Washington Post. While the editor-in-chief of the Post wishes to publish this information, the publisher of the newspaper Katharine Grahams hesitates. Her political friendships are numerous, the economic  consequences are grave and legal proceedings have been taken. A race against the clock takes place between various speakers with different intentions, defending a free press or preferring to protect the interests of President Nixon.

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Steven Spielberg directed Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks in The Post. It’s a thrilling drama about the unlikely partnership between The Washington Post's Katharine Graham , the first female publisher of a major American newspaper, and editor Ben Bradlee, as they race to catch up with The New York Times to expose a massive cover-up of government secrets that spanned three decades and four U.S. Presidents. The two must overcome their differences as they risk their careers  and their very freedom to help bring long-buried truths to light.
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Homework Assignment for Monday, April 9th.

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Homework Assignment for Monday, April 9th.

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Watch the video and answer the quizz. Here is the link to the Edpuzzle lesson created for you! It's so much fun! :-)
Enjoy!
Besides, watch one of the short videos posted on the Padlet, take notes (key words) and get ready to talk about the video. You will speak from notes! You can do it :-)

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What Were the Pentagon Papers? | History

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Edpuzzle assignment. Make video delivery an interactive experience. Students watch the lesson while answering the quizzes. The teacher gets the powerful hassle-free analytics.

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Remembering Ben Bradlee, the former Washington Post Executive Editor

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Remembering Ben Bradlee, the former Washington Post Executive Editor

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Remembering Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee

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Washington Post editor, Ben Bradlee, who was best known for leading the paper during its breaking of the Watergate scandal, died Tuesday at 93 in his home in Washington. By publishing the most controversial reports of the 1970s, Bradlee ushered the Post's transition from a struggling local paper to a nationally revered publication.

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Comparing the Post to Katharine Graham's Memoir.

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Comparing the Post to Katharine Graham's Memoir.

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Comparing 'The Post' to Katharine Graham's memoir

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Steven Spielberg's "The Post" and Katharine Graham's memoir, "Personal History," both depict the paper's decision to publish the Pentagon Papers in 1971. Here's how the two accounts match up, and how they diverge. Read more: http://wapo.st/2BRJfSJ.

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Katharine Graham on publishing the Pentagon Papers

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Katharine Graham on publishing the Pentagon Papers

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Katharine Graham on Publishing the Pentagon Papers

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Katharine Graham, former publisher of the Washington Post, talks about her decision to publish the Pentagon Papers. Graham was a featured panelist at The Connecticut Forum, "A Conversation about Leadership" with General Norman Schwarzkopf and moderator Chris Wallace on Thursday, May 29, 1997.

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How the Washington Post stood up to the power of the presidency.

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How the Washington Post stood up to the power of the presidency.

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How 'The Post' stood up to the power of the presidency

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In the film "The Post," editor Ben Bradlee and publisher Katharine Graham must obtain the Pentagon Papers and then decide whether to defy a court order by publishing the classified history of the Vietnam War. A story about a consequential moment in American history, press freedom and national security, it's also about Graham finding her way in a male-dominated world.

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Look For It On Digital April 3 Look For It On Blu-ray and DVD April 17 Steven Spielberg directs Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks in The Post, a thrilling drama about the unlikely partnership between The Washington Post's Katharine Graham (Streep), the first female publisher of a major American newspaper, and editor Ben Bradlee (Hanks), as they race to catch up with The New York Times to expose a massive cover-up of government secrets that spanned three decades and four U.S.

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The Impact of the Pentagon Papers, then and Now.

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The Impact of the Pentagon Papers, then and Now.

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40 Years After Leak, Weighing the Impact of the Pentagon Papers

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Read transcript: http://to.pbs.org/lmEyKy In 1971, parts of a secret Pentagon report began to surface in The New York Times calling the Vietnam War's validity into question. Forty years later, the Pentagon Papers were declassified and released in full Monday. Jeffrey Brown discusses the leak's significance with historian Michael Beschloss and journalist Sanford Ungar.

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A satirical clip: objectivity vs subjectivity

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A satirical clip: objectivity vs subjectivity

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Satirical clip on the fundamentally subjective nature of journalism and the mainstream media's refusal to accept this reality and adapt to it.

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We're all dripping with opinion. Question: Can journalists be objective? Cynthia McFadden: I rarely try to tell anyone what to think, though I think it's just ludicrous for journalists to say, "I don't have an opinion." We all have opinions. We're all dripping with opinion.

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The EJN Director describes the five values which are the foundation of ethical journalism.

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What is journalism? and who is a journalist?

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What is journalism? and who is a journalist?

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Ethics 101: What is Journalism And Who Is A Journalist?

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Uploaded by Ethical Journalism Network on 2015-02-18.

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Behind the scenes of Spielberg's movie The Post

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Behind the scenes of Spielberg's movie The Post

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Making of/B-Roll of The Post Subscribe and click the notification bell HERE: http://goo.gl/SrrTlT Subscribe to Filmisnow Movie Trailers: http://goo.gl/8WxGeD Plot: A cover-up that spanned four U.S. Presidents pushed the country's first female newspaper publisher and a hard-driving editor to join an unprecedented battle between journalist and government.

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The Pentagon Papers: A Primer for Top Secret at New York Theatre Workshop

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Do you know what the Pentagon Papers are? In 1971, Daniel Ellsberg leaked top secret US Defense Department documents to the New York Times and The Washington Post, exposing the government's role in deliberately escalating the Vietnam War. Quickly, a federal court blocked The New York Times from publishing the top-secret history of US involvement in Vietnam.

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The Vietnam War: The First Televised War

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The Vietnam War: The First Televised War

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Please consider supporting our videos on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/simplehistory The Vietnam war is often referred to as the "first television war." Media coverage showed the American public the reality of a foreign war, detached from the government's optimistic depiction, uncensored on their televisions at home. Please do not reupload our content!

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Tom Hanks on how the Pentagon Papers remain relevant today.

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Tom Hanks on how the Pentagon Papers remain relevant today.

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Tom Hanks on how the Pentagon Papers remain relevant today

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The 1971 landmark Supreme Court Decision New York Times V. United States, ruling in favor of free speech and freedom of the press.

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The 1971 landmark Supreme Court Decision New York Times V. United States, ruling in favor of free speech and freedom of the press.

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The 1964 Supreme Court Decision New York Times V. Sullivan.

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The 1964 Supreme Court Decision New York Times V. Sullivan.

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The Post is a movie directed by Steven Spielberg and it's out in december 2017. It's a movie with famous actors like Tom Hanks (he is the chief editor of the Washington Post in the movie, Ben Bradlee) or Meryl Steep (she is Kay Graham in the movie, the publisher of the Washington Post). This movie shows us a historical event when the Washington Post exposed classified documents about the Vietnam War in their newspaper. The Washington Post was not allowed to publish these documents and the government decided to sue them.
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Set in 1971, this is a non-fiction movie which depicts the way that journalists stand up to clarify the truth hidden behind scenes by the government. They are betting their lives and  fighting with the government for freedom of expression. At the beginning of the incident, the New York Times scooped the existence of "Pentagon Papers", which is a classified documents by the Ministry of Defense records of the progress, analysis of the Vietnam War. There are as many as 7000 pentagon papers. This states that the government lies to the people about the Vietnam War.

And, besides the New York Times, there is another newspaper company. That is the Washington post, the New York time's rival . Here,Catherine Graham who is the first female newspaper publisher in the United States, Ben Bradley who is a chief editor and other editors are working.

In fact,the US government appealed new york times. And the article will be suspended by The Supreme Court . The Washington Post also tries to publish the article. However, if the Washington Post made an article about Vietnam, everyone involved in the case will go to prison. The New York Times and the Washington post are fighting and cooperating each other.  Do they take freedom of expression or lose to government pressure? It is a movie of battle where the government and the newspaper company bet their lives.

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Vocabulary handout.
Here is the vocabulary seen in class on Tuesday, March 27th.

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The story takes place in the 1970s

She is the first woman director of the publication of a major American newspaper, the Washington Post, Katharine Graham goes with the help of Ben Bradlee (chief editor) to reveal a state scandal to catch up their delay with New York Times. These revelations concern the maneuvers of several US presidents, over thirty years, to hide top secret business including the Vietnam war ... At the risk of their career and their freedom, Katharine Graham and Ben Bradlee will have to overcome all the hurdles, in order to reveal secrets long hidden ...

Balthazar

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Dear students, I have just created an online classroom for you :-) Here are the instructions and the code to join the classroom.

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Dear students, I have just created an online classroom for you :-) Here are the instructions and the code to join the classroom.

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capture ecran instructions and code Edpuzzle 1S2.tiff

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Breaking News! Movie The Post                             Meetup: 10:45 am    Location: Cinéma Mac-Mahon,within a very short walking distance from the Etoile Plaza.                          4 euros.                  Remember to print the parents' authorization document I emailed you and hand it to me. Remember to confirm your presence! I expect you all to be there! This pedagogical outing has taken time to organize and the movie is a wonderful illustration of an important period in US history and the battle of the press for free speech. The info you will garner will be so much helpful for the final project ! See you then !

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Breaking News! Movie The Post                             Meetup: 10:45 am    Location: Cinéma Mac-Mahon,within a very short walking distance from the Etoile Plaza.                          4 euros.                  Remember to print the parents' authorization document I emailed you and hand it to me. Remember to confirm your presence! I expect you all to be there! This pedagogical outing has taken time to organize and the movie is a wonderful illustration of an important period in US history and the battle of the press for free speech. The info you will garner will be so much helpful for the final project ! See you then !

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The Fourth Amendment to the US. Constitution

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The Fourth Amendment to the US. Constitution

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National Constitution Center - The 4th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution

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The 4th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution

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The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

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The First Amendment to the US Constitution

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The First Amendment to the US Constitution

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National Constitution Center - The 1st Amendment of the U.S. Constitution

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The 1st Amendment of the U.S. Constitution

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Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

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Here is the ABC News Video we worked on today, Tuesday, March 13th.

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Here is the Fox News Video Clip studied in class on Tuesday, March 13th

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Here is the Fox News Video Clip studied in class on Tuesday, March 13th

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World Press Freedom Day

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World Press Freedom Day. The main event, jointly organized by UNESCO and the Government of the Republic of Ghana, will take place in Accra, Ghana on 2 - 3 May.

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Champions league quarter finals ! (by Shadine, Syrine, Balthazar)

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Champions league quarter finals ! (by Shadine, Syrine, Balthazar)

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https://www.fourfourtwo.com/features/champions-league-quarter-finals-liverpool-draw-manchester-cityhttps://www.fourfourtwo.com/features/champions-league-quarter-finals-liverpool-draw-manchester-city

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The First Amendment to the American Constitution: Freedom of Speech, Freedom of the Press...

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BBC News

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Visit BBC News for up-to-the-minute news, breaking news, video, audio and feature stories. BBC News provides trusted World and UK news as well as local and regional perspectives. Also entertainment, business, science, technology and health news.

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Breaking News, Latest News and Current News from FOXNews.com. Breaking news and video. Latest Current News: U.S., World, Entertainment, Health, Business, Technology, Politics, Sports.

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Web article about tax on junk food  (Shadine) 

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Article By Pauline Pellissier in Grazia

24 janvier 2018

The web article it’s about tax on products, which exceed the "caloric density" of 275 calories per 100 grams.

In fact, in two countries: Hungary and Mexico , they are tax on junk food.

According to the World Health Organization , the consumption of junk food has decreased because consumers choose cheaper products (= healthy products). And better 40% of the manufacturers have changed their recipes to avoid taxes and then they make products less and less sugar and more healthy.

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Taxer les produits les plus gras et sucrés, certains pays l'ont fait. Et l'expérience semble concluante. Explications.

C'est quoi ? La junk food taxe, c'est l'idée d'appliquer une plus forte taxe étatique pour rendre la malbouffe plus chère et donc moins attractive pour le consommateur. Ces taxes peuvent être payées soit pas le consommateur, soit par l'industrie agroalimentaire... qui en répercutera ensuite le prix en rayon. En France, si cette taxe n'existe pas, tous les produits ne sont pas taxés de la même manière : les cigarettes ont vu leurs taxes progresser ces dernières années (elles représentent désormais 80 % du prix !), quand d'autres produits jugés comme indispensables bénéficient eux d'une TVA réduite : les médicaments, les protections hygiéniques, les repas dans les cantines scolaires...

C'est où ? Deux pays ont expérimenté une taxe sur la junk food : la Hongrie et le Mexique, nous raconte Vox.com. En 2011, Budapest a instauré une taxe de 4 % sur les aliments et les boissons contenant une forte teneur en sel et en sucre : soda, bonbons, biscuits apéritifs, confitures, condiments... le tout accompagné d'une campagne explicative. Puis, en 2013, c'est Mexico qui a voté une taxe de 8 % sur les snacks, les sucreries, le beurre de cacahuète et les produits "non essentiels" à base de céréales, qui dépassent la "densité calorique" de 275 calories pour 100 grammes.

Est-ce que ça marche ? D'après l'Organisation Mondiale de la Santé (OMS), la consommation de junk food a baissé en Hongrie, car les consommateurs choisissent d'opter pour des produits moins chers et souvent plus sains (dans 7 à 16 % des cas), ou parce qu'ils décident de consommer moins (en quantité) de produits non-sains (pour 5 à 16 % des clients). Mieux encore : 40 % des industriels auraient fait évoluer leurs recettes pour éviter les taxes. Même constat au Mexique, où la consommation de junk food a baissé de 7 % depuis l'instauration de la mesure.

Est-ce que les États-Unis pourraient suivre ? C'est ce qu'espèrent en tout cas des chercheurs américains qui viennent de publier un article en faveur d'un tel dispositif dans la revue scientifique American Journal of Public Health. Mais il apparaît comme compliqué de voir Donald Trump les suivre. Contrairement à Michelle Obama qui faisait - avec Let's move - de la sédentarité et de la malbouffe son combat, le milliardaire républicain ne semble pas très sensible à la question. Son administration n'a jamais considéré pas l'obésité comme une priorité.

Et en France ? En septembre 2016, la direction du Trésor (qui conseille le ministère de l'Économie et des Finances), suggérait dans un rapport d'instaurer une taxe sur les produits alimentaires favorisant le surpoids. Au-delà de la question de santé publique, il s'agissait de compenser aussi le coût du surpoids pour la société, estimé à 20 milliards d'euros en France. Une idée qui n'a pas enthousiasmé le gouvernement Hollande : Michel Sapin (alors ministre de l'Économie) invoquait un souci de cohérence : alors que le gouvernement tentait "de baisser les impôts, de supprimer les taxes", "en créer par ailleurs" enverrait un mauvais signal.

Quels sont les arguments des anti ? En dehors des libéraux qui s'opposent à toute régulation du marché et qui défendent la liberté de choix du consommateur (l'état ne doit pas jouer le rôle de "nounou"), d'autres experts pensent que de telles taxes seront inutiles tant que la junk food sera plus facile à consommer que les fruits et les légumes qui nécessitent souvent d'être cuisinés. Peu importe le prix, "les Américains aiment le fait que les choses soient pratiques", explique à Vox.com Marc Bellemare, économiste à l'Université du Minnesota. La solution ? Démontrer aux sceptiques qu'on peut les cuisiner rapidement et facilement.

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A lire aussi : Obésité : 15 % des Français concernés... et ça empire Rien ne va plus : près de 40 % des Américains souffrent d'obésité La moitié des Français de plus de 30 ans est en surpoids

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Taxe sur la malbouffe : on vous explique pourquoi c'est efficace

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Taxer les produits les plus gras et sucrés, certains pays l'ont fait. Et l'expérience semble concluante. Explications. C'est quoi ? La junk food taxe, c'est l'idée d'appliquer une plus forte taxe étatique pour rendre la malbouffe plus chère et donc moins attractive pour le consommateur.

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Here is a New York Times press article on a father's struggle to fight diabetes in India. A very interesting, easy to ready and helpful article!
Use the reading strategies to understand the main ideas. Give it a try, it's easy!
The former American president Theodore Roosevelt said:"Believe you can and you are half way there."

Enjoy!

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NEW DELHI - Rahul Verma's son was born gravely ill with digestive problems, but over years of visits to the boy's endocrinologist, Mr. Verma saw the doctor grow increasingly alarmed about a different problem, one threatening healthy children. Junk food, the doctor warned, was especially dangerous to Indians, who are far more prone to diabetes than people from other parts of the world.

One day in the doctor's waiting room, Mr. Verma noticed a girl who had gotten fat by compulsively eating potato chips. He decided he had to do something.

"On one side you have children like my son, who are born with problems," said Mr. Verma, "and on the other side you have children who are healthy and everything is fine and you are damaging them giving them unhealthy food."

Mr. Verma, who had no legal training, sat late into the nights with his wife, Tullika, drafting a petition in their tiny apartment, which was bedecked with fairy lights and pictures of the god Ganesh, who is believed to overcome all obstacles. He filed the public interest lawsuit in the Delhi High Court in 2010, seeking a ban on the sale of junk food and soft drinks in and around schools across India.

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The case has propelled sweeping, court-ordered regulations of the food industry to the doorstep of the Indian government, where they have languished. They have outsize importance in India, population 1.3 billion, because its people are far more likely to develop diabetes - which can lead to heart disease, kidney failure, blindness and amputations - as they gain weight than people from other regions, according to health experts.

Since 1990, the percent of children and adults in India who are overweight or obese has almost tripled to 18.8 percent from 6.4 percent, according to data from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington.

The International Diabetes Federation projects that the number of Indians with diabetes will soar to 123 million by 2040 as diets rich in carbohydrates and fat spread to less affluent rural areas.

"We are sitting on a volcano," said Dr. Anoop Misra, chairman of a diabetes hospital at Fortis Healthcare, one of India's biggest private hospital chains.

In the years since the court ordered the government to develop guidelines to regulate junk food, the case has encountered ferocious opposition from the All India Food Processors Association, which counts Coca-Cola India, PepsiCo India and Nestlé India as members, as well as hundreds of other companies.

Subodh Jindal, the president of the association, said in an interview that junk food was unfairly blamed for diabetes and obesity. It was overeating, not the food itself, that has caused the problem, he said, asking, "Do you eat two pizzas a day or two pizzas a week?"

The government this year took a significant step that public health experts believe will help combat the rise of obesity in the world's second most populous country. It partially implemented a tax on sugar sweetened beverages, instituting a 40 percent tax on such drinks that are carbonated, though not on juices made with added sugars that many children drink.

But so far, the regulations to ban sales near schools sought by the court in Mr. Verma's case have led to naught.

"At such a slow pace, we will all be sick and diseased by the time any changes come in," said Shweta Khandelwal, a nutritionist at the Public Health Foundation of India.

Jagat Prakash Nadda, India's minister of health and family welfare, did not respond to repeated requests for comment, but Pawan Agarwal, chief executive of the Food Safety Standards Authority of India, the body in the ministry responsible for such regulations, insisted that the government's efforts have been sincere.

"This may appear to be typical of India. When you have an issue, you set up so many committees and confuse the whole issue," he said. But he insisted: "People are concerned. They want to do something about it. Therefore everyone is setting up committees."

As the case has played out on Twitter and in newspapers, students carrying "Junk Food Rest in Peace" posters have rallied, seeking to make obesity an issue in a country where feeding the hungry has been a national obsession. Some schools have voluntarily stopped serving junk food.

The court battle has unfolded in a grand, wood-paneled courtroom here in the nation's capital. Mr. Verma, 42, quit his job as a corporate marketing executive after his son's birth in 2006 and set up a foundation in 2007 to help families like his with sick children. An emotional man, he sometimes wept in frustration with the government's foot dragging. At one point, doubting his decision to venture into India's overburdened legal system, the lanky, round-faced Mr. Verma, who wears big square glasses, begged the judge to let him withdraw the petition.

"Nothing is happening. I've wasted my time," he said, tears sliding down his face, as he bemoaned getting sidetracked from his foundation's mission of helping poor, sick children at the giant public hospital where his son had been treated. "I could have helped hundreds of kids."

But Chief Justice Dipak Misra refused to let Mr. Verma take back his lawsuit. Instead, spotting a senior advocate, Neeraj Kishan Kaul, at the back of the crowded courtroom, the judge ordered him to act as the pro bono lawyer for Mr. Verma's case.

As Mr. Kaul, 54, approached the bench, he recalled, he joked to the judge, "You've got the wrong guy. I like junk food."

An Increased Risk

Researchers around the world began noticing that Indian immigrants were more prone to diabetes in the 1970s.

"But nobody knew why," said Dr. Viswanathan Mohan, a physician and researcher who owns several dozen diabetes centers in India.

Scientists searched for genes that predisposed Indians to diabetes, but didn't find them. Instead, a growing body of research suggests that Indians' body type - one that is smaller but with more abdominal fat - may be responsible.

Being born to a malnourished woman - a common phenomenon in India - may also increase the odds of developing diabetes. Clues to this pattern emerged from other parts of the world. Researchers studied the health of babies born during the Dutch famine in 1944-45. They found that the babies had a higher likelihood of impaired glucose tolerance as adults, which led to higher rates of diabetes.

Dr. Chittaranjan Yajnik, a diabetes specialist, and Barry Popkin, a professor of nutrition at the University of North Carolina, are among the researchers exploring a theory that Indians evolved what Dr. Yajnik has called "a thin-fat" body type over millenniums as a way to survive famines when monsoons failed.

Dr. Yajnik, who is from Pune, a city in western India, noticed during his medical training in Britain in the 1980s that he had higher levels of fat and hormones related to diabetes than European doctors even though he appeared thinner.

That set Dr. Yajnik, now head of diabetes at KEM Hospital Research Center in Pune, on a quest to understand if this was generally true for Indians - and if so, why.

In the 1990s, he began following the pregnancies of hundreds of women in villages outside Pune and tested their offspring as they grew up.

Compared with infants in Britain, Indian newborns were about 1.5 pounds lighter but had more abdominal fat and higher levels of certain hormones in their cord blood, he found, suggesting a predisposition to diabetes.

Dr. Yajnik said he believes Indians' susceptibility to diabetes may have emerged as their diets changed with rising affluence - and that their bodies, attuned to scarcity, couldn't handle an overload of food.

As of last year, some 199 million adults in India were overweight or obese according to the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation. Since 1990, the percentage of India's adult population with diabetes has surged to 7.7 percent - some 63 million people - from 5.5 percent.

Although cases of obesity and being overweight are far less prevalent in India (24 percent last year) than in Canada (about 60 percent), for example, adults there are just as likely to develop diabetes as in Canada, a New York Times analysis of data from the institute found.

Many of the countries where diabetes is more common relative to obesity are in South Asia, the Times analysis found.

In the years since Mr. Verma filed his suit, consumption of junk food has risen sharply across India. Sales of packaged foods have increased 138 percent; fast food 83 percent; and carbonated drinks 58 percent, according to Euromonitor International, the market research firm.

Coca-Cola Company's chief executive, James Quincey, in an interview with Indian news media earlier this year, said that he expected the Indian market to eventually become the company's third largest in sales, up from sixth.

Coca-Cola and PepsiCo have announced plans to invest billions of dollars in the Indian market. They have also said they plan to increase their offerings of drinks with less sugar and more fruit.

Sanjay Khajuria, a Nestlé India spokesman, said the food processors association, which opposed Mr. Verma's case, had "taken into account inputs received by the association from its members," and declined further comment on the case. He also noted that the company has joined other companies in India to restrict advertising directed at children under 12 to products with a certain level of nutrients.

A Coca-Cola spokesman referred questions on the lawsuit to the food association. PepsiCo India's vice president of sales, Harsh K. Rai, also declined to comment on the lawsuit. He said the company has stopped advertising to children 12 and under.

An Unexpected Calling

Becoming a crusader against junk food was far from Mr. Verma's mind as he and his wife battled to save their son, Uday, who was born with parts of his digestive system missing.

The boy endured nine surgeries, but emerged thriving. His parents decided they wanted to help families facing similar challenges and formed the Uday Foundation. Mr. Verma ran it, while his wife supported the family on her $1,000-a-month salary as an administrator in the government education system.

After seeing the obese girl in the doctor's waiting room, Mr. Verma couldn't shake his concern about junk food. He also had a worry closer to home: his daughter, Lavanya, sometimes bought burgers at school instead of eating the rice and lentils her mother sent from home.

First the couple approached state officials about banning junk food in New Delhi schools - to no avail.

Then in 2010 he filed the lawsuit, basing his case on the constitutional authority of courts to intervene to protect citizens' right to life.

In 2011, the presiding judge asked the national government "to take concrete and effective steps to ensure that the sale and supply of junk food in and around schools is banned."

The food industry hired some of the country's most politically-connected lawyers to fight the case, including Mukul Rohatgi, the former additional solicitor general; Abhishek Manu Singhvi, who has been a member of Parliament and spokesman for the Congress Party, which has ruled India for most of its post-independence history; and Kapil Sibal, the three-time president of the Supreme Court Bar Association who had served as a senior minister in the Congress-led government.

The hearings dragged on. Finally, in 2014, the working group of an expert committee picked by the food authority recommended that sales of potato chips, sugar sweetened beverages, ready-to-eat noodles and chocolates be banned within 500 yards of schools.

The food association strenuously objected. D. V. Malhan, its executive secretary, said in an interview that there are so many schools that the proposed sales ban would have hurt the industry badly.

In early 2015, the food authority in the health ministry finally recommended regulations to the court, including some limitations on the sale of junk food around schools. The judge ordered the recommendations carried out within three months. Instead, the food authority appointed yet another committee.

Last year, at a meeting in New Delhi, that committee proposed taxing junk food, prohibiting advertising of it during children's television shows and requiring consumer labeling of processed food.

Mr. Malhan, of the food association, denounced the report for not soliciting industry input earlier. Shouting, he said the guidelines were unacceptable.

It has been nearly two years since that contentious meeting.

Mr. Agarwal, chief executive of the food authority, insisted his agency is finally ready to start adopting new rules early next year for labeling healthy food with a green light and those high in fat, sugar and salt with a red light.

But he said taxing junk food and banning it around schools were long term goals.

"There is no point in confronting industry on these issues," he said.

Many More Patients

As the government debates junk food policy, doctors here say that over the past 20 years they have seen their offices packed with increasingly younger diabetic patients.

Last month, Sapna Dhingra, 49, called Dr. Rommel Tickoo, a New Delhi internist, complaining of leg pain. He sent her for a blood test and texted her the next day: "Come over. You've got diabetes." She reeled in shock. Her mother is also diabetic, but got the disease in her 60s.

Now diabetes is stalking her husband and daughter, who are what Dr. Yajnik would call "thin-fat."

Her husband, Hardesh, 54, learned a few months ago that his high blood sugar put him on the borderline of being diabetic. He immediately started taking daily walks, but Delhi's dangerous air pollution prompted Dr. Tickoo to advise him to stop.

A blood test revealed that the couple's daughter, Ria, 22, also had elevated blood sugar. She is not overweight, either, although she gained a few pounds recently after a knee injury interrupted her exercise routine.

Dr. Tickoo advised Ria to immediately change her diet but she said it was hard to resist temptation. When she is not studying at the Pearl Academy of Fashion, where she is in her final year, she hangs out in malls crammed with fast food restaurants serving pizza, burgers, fried chicken and oily Indian entrees.

She has switched from milkshakes to smoothies made with fresh fruit, but confesses her motive is not her health. The question for her and her friends: "Are we going to fit in our leggings or not?"

The Future of the Fight

At lunchtime one recent day, people on crutches and with tubes hanging out of their noses gathered in a crowd outside the hospital where Mr. Verma's son was treated. A white van pulled up and they jostled to the front of the line for heaping bowls of khichdi, an Indian favorite of rice, lentils and vegetables.

Mr. Verma's foundation - which now has more than 700,000 Twitter followers - serves these meals three days a week to about 1,000 patients.

At his office, he reveled in his David versus Goliath battle to regulate junk food. He was emphatic that someone needs to continue the fight; he is just not sure that someone is him. He is convinced the unending legal battle gave him high blood pressure.

His former partner on the case, the pro bono lawyer Mr. Kaul, said India needs more than Mr. Verma to make change happen.

Public interest lawsuits have helped citizens press for government action and win significant victories on air pollution, for example.

But that happened after outrage about filthy air had mounted. Mr. Kaul said the government will only move on junk food once public pressure builds.

"You need a movement to fight the inertia of the system," he said, sipping a can of Coke.

Audrey Carlsen contributed reporting from New York, and Matt Richtel from San Francisco.

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- You should eat more vegetables.
- You should favor home-made food.
- You should practise sport- You should not eat at a fastfood restaurant.
- You should not buy processed food.

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·         You should eat homemade food.
·         You should drink 1.5 liters of water a day.
·         I advise you to practice a sports activity.
·         I advise you not to buy your fruits and vegetables in a supermarket but at a coop.
·         You shouldn’t drink soft drinks and you should practice sports, because it’s a good way to fight against stress, and improve the quality of sleep. It also reduces the cardiovascular risk, diabetes as well as the risks of cancer.

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You should eat good things for your body. For instance, a lot of vegetables, fruits, eggs, fish....
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H E A L T H Y   D I E T

There are many solutions to have a healthy diet.
Do you know them ? It's not complicated !
You have to be careful to your health and to avoid diseases. I give you some advice :

You should drink water rather than other soft drinks. It helps you to cut back on your sugar consumption .

I advise you to eat balanced food with vegetables, fruits ...

You can practice physical activites to keep fit and burn calories.

You should consume homemade food rather than processed food, it’s better for our health. There are less preservatives.

If you FOLLOW MY ADVICE , I’m sure you will see RESULTS ! !

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I advise you to exercise a lot.

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A balanced diet is an essential part of your healthy life. Nowadays, adopting good eating habits is not easy. Very often, we put our desires before our balanced food.
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I highly recommend that you eat fruits outside meals, they help digestion (it was the little tip of the day! ;-)

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You should eat a variety of food with moderation
You should not eat too much sweets and salt.
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Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution, US trailer.

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Is junk food affordability behind addiction?

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Is junk food affordability behind addiction?

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I highly recommend that you eat healthy food and sometimes eat fatty food like at McDonald's or KFC. You should not always eat lean and fatty food purchased
at the supermarket, because almost all the products are stuffed with preservatives.
In conclusion, you should eat healthy food that you find at the farm and eat better.
Sometimes you can eat whatever you want.
you must always keep an eye on your health.     Gabriel Lion

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Kick unhealthy eating habits and work out!

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Kick unhealthy eating habits and work out!

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Are marketing strategies and deceptive advertising behind junk food addiction?!

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Facts on junk food addiction

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Press Article: Advantages and Disadvantages of Healthy Food Versus Junk Food, Livestrong.com, Clay McNight, October 3rd, 2017

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Press Article: Advantages and Disadvantages of Healthy Food Versus Junk Food, Livestrong.com, Clay McNight, October 3rd, 2017

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Junk Food