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Monday, April 07, 2008
Keep the sodas and candy away
By VictorM:There really is no surprise with the results of the experiment shown below in terms of the consequences of this diet program:
The question is: will our political leaders have the wisdom and the will to push for such changes across the nation? Doubtful, of course, as the soda and candy companies will be out lobbying in force, but the benefits we'd get as a nation would be enormous, particularly when it comes to health care.Five Philadelphia elementary schools replaced sodas with fruit juice. They scaled back snacks and banished candy. They handed out raffle tickets for wise food choices. They spent hours teaching kids, their parents and teachers about good nutrition...
The number of kids who got fat during the two-year experiment was half the number of kids who got fat in schools that didn't make those efforts...
The bad news: There were still plenty of new overweight kids in the five schools _ over 7 percent of them became overweight compared to the 15 percent in the schools that didn't make changes.
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