President Bill Clinton's Healthy Schools Program had a big victory last week.
The major beverage companies have agreed to only sell juice, water, and milk to kids in elementary and middle school, and only diet soda to high school kids. Child obesity is a serious public health problem and what our children eat and drink these days is taking years off their life. While we have some momentum let's push our kids schools to drop junk food too! Get involved and take action.
UPDATE 6/13: Doctors call for 'fat tax' on Coca-Cola and Pepsi
UPDATE 12/15/08: 10 years later, school still sugar free and proud
Comments (3)
We are our children's first and best advocates. My son's elementary school just started selling mini water bottles at lunch and he loves it! Our children only know what we feed them..intellectually,emotionally, and physically. My husband works for the Oprahs show and Dr. Oz is on periodically to help educate America about what is killing us the majority of the time...what we put in our mouths. It always starts at home for our kids-the notion of putting good things in their bodies. But we must push for schools to follow our lead.
So I say parents must be the squeaky wheels and make some noise about what is presented to our kids as healthy choices.
Schools providing anything but the best nutrition to its students is for lack of a better word...stupid.
Posted by: Meredith on May 11, 2006 20:06
The diet drinks aren't that great for you either with the aspartame etc in that. Can't Coca-Cola Corp just leave our kids completely alone?
Posted by: BW on May 28, 2006 15:50
Fluff is out too.
Posted by: BW on June 24, 2006 15:11