Listed below are BRIGHT IDEAS about Healthy Eating.
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A diverse coalition of community groups, health advocates, students, teachers, and parents lobbied the Los Angeles Unified school board to eliminate the sale of soda and unhealthy snack items. Using a very organized approach, advocates achieved policy change in the nation's second largest school district.
Students worked with school officials at Parlier High School to reduce the number of sodas sold in vending machines and replace them with water and natural fruit juices and to add a low-fat, milk-based strawberry smoothie to the snack bar menu.
This nutrition and physical activity project exposed students to increased opportunities for physical activity through a pedometer challenge. Students also were provided with healthy fruit and vegetable snacks.
A San Jose parent who was fed up with the junk food sold at her daughter's middle school successfully replaces all soda, candy and other foods of minimal nutritional value with healthier snacks in school vending machines, the cafeteria and school store.
A Columbia School District collaborative developed draft policy that would increase healthy food options and improve the P.E. program. After promoting the policy to the community, the school board unanimously adopted it.
