Many restaurants offer the same sugary beverages on kids meals with unhealthy options like high-sugar sodas, lemonades and juices. Now Maryland lawmakers are considering a bill to help ban soda's and other sugary drinks from kids menu's in all restaurants. Wanting to help parents and kids make the healthy choice the easy choice, the bill would change kids menus to offer healthier choices like water, low-fat milk or 100 percent juices at regular price. "The choice that comes with 80 percent of restaurant kids' meals is a soda or a fruit punch, and in those cases families are always welcomed to ask for a healthy drink, but it sometimes costs $2 or $3 more to get a milk," Robi Rawl, the Sugar Free Kids Maryland Executive Director said in a recent article. According to the Center ...
Join Anna Kortright, a nutritionist with Eat Smart New York (ESNY) as she explains how much sugar is in common beverages. Learn to calculate the sugar content in food at the "Rethink Your Drink" presentation at the Morrisville Public Library on Wednesday, Feb. 24th at 1 pm. Rethink Your Drink presentation helps consumers understand how much sugar is in their daily beverages, helping to encourage everyone to think about how much sugar is in your daily beverages. Attendees can play a fun game to estimate sugar levels in various beverages and learn healthier alternatives to sugary beverages. Also available are free samples of flavored water or cider. To learn more, click ...
In the past 15 years, the drowning rate of school-age children in Broward County, Fla., has plummeted thanks in part to SWIM Central, a program that provides free water safety education classes and transportation for public school children. However, drowning rates remain the No. 1 cause of death among children younger than 5. SWIM Central’s manager and primary funder, the Children’s Services Council, teamed up to develop a voucher program for parents to get their children under 5 into water safety education classes for free or very low cost.
Drowning is No.1 Killer in South Florida Cindy Arenberg Seltzer and Jay Sanford have long been advocates for water safety education for children in Broward County, Fla. (27.5% Latino). Seltzer is president and CEO of the ...
Local health and community leaders are encouraging people to drink more water through a new health campaign called, Live Sugar Freed. This new campaign is a pilot project of "A Healthy America"- a national movement to help prevent health problems by using the power of media for prevention. The goal is of the campaign is to help lower rates of obesity and diabetes in the tri-cities region in Tenn., where, according to a recent article, over one in eight adults have diabetes, and where sugary beverages are consumed more than once on a daily basis. Sugary-sweetened beverages are shown to increase the risk of developing type two diabetes and other health risks like heart disease. The Live Sugar Freed Campaign has sent the message of water as the healthier choice, throughout the ...
More countries are taking notice of the health risks associated with consumption of sugary drinks and are taxing sugary beverages, currently Chile, France, Hungary and Mexico have taxes on sugary drinks. Now more countries are taking notice, including Indonesia, India and the Philippines. Asian nations are looking towards a sugared beverage tax to help curb high rates of obesity and diabetes, reported a recent article. Indonesia originally vetoed a "luxury tax" on sugary drinks, however now an economic adviser recommended India levy a forty percent tax on sugared drinks, and soft drink companies are noticing. An estimation from Euromonitor showed the soft drink industry generates around 18 billion dollars in Asian nations, and media reports show how soft drink companies are ...
Pediatrician Dr. Alejandro Clavier is working on reversing diabetes and childhood obesity for his Latino patients at Saint Anthony Hospital in Chicago. In a recent article, Dr. Clavier says,"I tell my patients that if they can remember one thing, remember to drink water," he said. Dr. Clavier explains to his patients and their families the harm of sugary drinks and encourages them to only have water and homemade juices with no sugar available for the kids at home. Latino kids experience a higher risk for diet-related diseases like diabetes, and studies show that about 74 percent of Latino children have had a sugary drink by age two. Dr. Clavier encourages healthier foods in Latino homes, telling families to choose water and to remember that nothing is worth sacrificing their ...
To help bring awareness to the impacts that sugar can have on health risks such as diabetes, high blood pressure, and obesity, a group of organizations is challenging Lincoln County residents to cut sugar out of their daily diets. The month-long educational efforts are being led by the Lincoln County Oral Health Coalition, in coordination with various other dental and medical partnerships, hoping to ensure the community to rethink their drinks and diets and increases oral and dental health. The Health Department offers the following tips to help residents decrease sugar consumption: First up Rethink your drink. Sugary beverages such as soda, juice, flavored milk and energy drinks contain an average of 10 teaspoons of sugar per serving.
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With funds received on January 6th from the Colorado Health Foundation, kids at Akron School will have a variety of fresh vegetables to choose for lunch with their new salad bar. The new salad bar offers students cucumbers, pea salad, garbanzo beans, dressings, apples, sliced carrots, and more. Washington County Connections' Healthy Schools Advocate, Holly Thompson, helped obtain the grant for the new salad bar. Meghan Camacho, the Director of the food program for the school has worked with Sarah Kvichackof the LiveWell Colorado School Food Initiative also to help bring healthier meals to students over the last two years. LiveWell Colorado is a nonprofit that is committed to reducing obesity in Colorado by promoting healthy eating and active living. LiveWell helped the Akron ...
Want to drink more water? Win a free water bottle by using social media! The Drink Up campaign by Parntership for a Healthier America is asking twitter, facebook and instagram users to #DrinkUP and include the hashtag #MissionH20 to tell friends on social media outlest about what goals they have for the 2016 year! Make sure to use the hashtag #MissionH20 to post on facebook, Twitter or Instargram @urh2o to enter the giveaway. Winners will be announced on the social media pages from January 26th to February 26th. To learn how you can win a free water bottle, click ...
