We can't get rid of the carcinogens in the environment, but we can make sure that our kids arrive at school each day with a reusable lunch bag full of produce from the farmers' market.

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He recently received via FedEx a toy rubber sandwich wrapped in red cellophane with a note saying he wouldn't have to brown bag his lunch the following week if he'd let the sender take him to a restaurant.

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And I promise, if your husband gives the kids lunch money rather than a brown bag, they will survive.

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If you devour a burger and half a bag of potato chips during lunch, you shouldn't be shocked that you can't focus while your body battles greasy food.

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In its cafeteria recently, Ultra fund comanager John A. Sykora picked at a bowl of fresh fruit and tried to avoid an open bag of Cheetos tantalizing him from the lunch tray's far corner.

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With the remainder of his lunch hour, he eats a sandwich he has brought to work in a brown paper bag, and drinks a bottle of water.

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Fearing the bag contained drugs, he turned it over to two police officers who happened to be eating lunch there.

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