PepsiCo. Does the Right Thing
PepsiCo. is pledging to eliminate all sales of “full sugar soft drinks” to primary and secondary schools worldwide by 2012. PURCHASE, N.Y., March 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — PepsiCo (NYSE: PEP) announced today it is voluntarily adopting a new global policy to stop sales of full-sugar soft drinks to primary and secondary schools by 2012. The industry-leading policy establishes for the first time a consistent global...
“Generation Snack”
This NYT summary of a recent study doesn’t paint a very pretty picture of kids’ snacking habits: A sweeping study of 31,337 children and adolescents released on Tuesday tracked snacking and meal trends from 1977 through 2006 using data from four national surveys. On average, children reach for cookies, chips and other treats about three times a day, consuming nearly 600 daily calories from snacks. That’s an increase of 168...
Pop-Tarts Are Better Than Brownies???
The New York City Dept. of Education apparently thinks so. According to the NYT: By the time the Panel for Educational Policy was ready to vote on bake sales during its monthly meeting on Wednesday night, it was after 11:30. By then, just one mother, Elizabeth Puccini, was waiting to speak out against the new policy, which bans most bake sales but allows students to sell premade items including Pop-Tarts and Doritos. Apparently this...
CDC: 1 in 5 US Teenagers Have Abnormal Lipid Levels
According to data recently published by the US Centers for Disease Control, slightly over 20% of youths aged 12 – 19 had at least one abnormal blood lipid value (i.e., high LDL cholesterol, low HDL cholesterol and/or high serum triglycerides). According to a Washington Post summary: One out of every five U.S. teenagers has a cholesterol level that increases the risk of heart disease, federal health officials reported Thursday,...
The Ultimate Fitness Game
Taylor LeBaron is one smart kid. Taylor LeBaron is half the teen he used to be — and that’s a very good thing for both his health and self-esteem. An always-big boy who grew into a severely obese teen, the Georgia native dealt with schoolroom taunts and his own shrinking self-image even as he continued put on the pounds. Finally, LeBaron took control of his life by turning to the thing that helped make him fat in the first place:...
US Obesity Rates Leveling Off
As the LA Times puts it: Americans may not be collectively doomed to die in their recliners after all, one hand in the chips bag, the other stretching for the remote. Obesity levels seem to be leveling off or slowing across most of the population, according to two new comprehensive studies of the nation’s heft. The assessments, from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, are a welcome respite from the seemingly endless...
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