ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico (CNN) -- A teacher in New Mexico is trying to cool down a hot trend.
The popularity of Flamin' Hot Cheetos has fired up a health teacher at Lyndon B Johnson Middle School. That teacher is taking a stance to douse student snacking on the teen favorite.
A letter to parents urges them to keep the Cheetos at home for many reasons: poor nutritional value, students eat Cheetos instead of a good lunch, plus, they share the Cheetos, spreading germs. And the last and messiest reason, janitors have to clean up red fingerprints everywhere from the dye in the Flamin' Hot Cheetos.
LBJ parents admit they are guilty of feeding the habit.
"My daughter brings snack packs to school," said one parent. "I don't have her bringing a family size pack of Cheetos to school. Just because I know my child, and I know she would eat the whole bag in one day."
One bag has four servings, and administrators are concerned many students will eat the whole thing, chomping down 44 grams of fat and nearly 700 calories at once. That's about half the caloric intake a teenager needs in a day.
The bottom line here, the school is encouraging kids and parents to put down the Flamin' Hot Cheetos and pick up a healthier snack.
