Healthier Check-Out Aisles at the Wal-Mart in Anderson, Calif.

Grocery store check-out lines can be one of the toughest spots for kids to make healthy choices. In the fall of 2006, concerned students in Anderson, a small city in northern California’s Shasta County, decided to take a stand against junk food in check-out aisles, and their impact rippled into many grocery stores across the country. The Issue of Healthy Food Awareness: A group of middle-schoolers in Anderson saw the daily struggle they and their peers faced at the grocery and convenience stores: a lot of junk food options at the check-out aisles. They were fed up with how the placement and heavy promotion of these unhealthy products encouraged kids to eat poorly—a poor diet is one of the biggest contributors to obesity and its related health complications. Learn: Already ...