Schools Could Help Kids Battle Weight
By Jane St. Clair
A two-year pilot study at 10 elementary schools in Philadelphia found that if a school stops serving junk food and provides nutritional education and incentives to children to eat in a healthy way, the children can cut their risk of overweight in half.
About 7% of the students in the five schools with such programs became overweight in the two-year period of the study, compared to 15% of schools without these programs.
This study was conducted through Temple University and published in the journal Pediatrics.
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This is great news - but how are schools going to be able to afford serving healthier (often more expensive) food to their students? Especially with all the recent budget cuts?
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