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While most U.S. colleges have healthy-eating initiatives in place, one Texan university is taking their programme a step further by banning pork from the cafeteria.
The Paul Quinn College ? a historically black college - has instituted the ban arguing that eating the meat can lead to high blood pressure, heart problems and obesity.
The school?s president, Michael Sorrel, told The Dallas Observer that his students are especially susceptible to these sorts of health problems.
'The reality is that our student population comes from demographic that struggles with the type of health concerns that you see in underresourced community,' he said.
Creating a pork-free cafeteria is the latest move to ?improve the lives and health of our students?, according to a statement from the college.
xhttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2186671/Texan-college-bans-pork-cafeteria-obesity-cancer-concerns.html
The Paul Quinn College ? a historically black college - has instituted the ban arguing that eating the meat can lead to high blood pressure, heart problems and obesity.
The school?s president, Michael Sorrel, told The Dallas Observer that his students are especially susceptible to these sorts of health problems.
'The reality is that our student population comes from demographic that struggles with the type of health concerns that you see in underresourced community,' he said.
Creating a pork-free cafeteria is the latest move to ?improve the lives and health of our students?, according to a statement from the college.
xhttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2186671/Texan-college-bans-pork-cafeteria-obesity-cancer-concerns.html
