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Campers
at the Boys & Girls Club of Fall
River Camp Welch had a chance to learn about Fall River's first Soda-free
Summer Pledge Campaign on August 10, 2011 with a presentation by
Healthy City Fall River coordinator Dr. David Weed. Campers were asked to
guess the sugar content of typical sugary drinks and then saw the
equivalent number of sugar packs that equaled
the sugar content of each container. "When the 10, 17, 27 or 68 packs
of sugar taped together held up next to 12 ounce, 20 ounce, 1 liter and
64 ounce drink bottles, there were audible gasps from the audience,"
reported Dr. Weed. Children were then invited to
take a Soda-free Summer pledge to either reduce or eliminate sugary drinks
for the rest of the summer. Over 1,600 signed pledge
forms have been on display at Government Center from similar sessions held
in the Fall River schools in June. Click
here for photos of the initial announcement, here
for pictures at the CD-REC Kick-off to Summer and here for photos at the
21st Century summer program at the Greene Elementary School in Fall
River.. For more information on these
projects, contact Dr. Weed at
508-324-2411. (Photos
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(Top row) Dr.
Weed asks the assembled campers what they typically drink on a hot summer
day before he holds up
various size bottles of different drinks and campers hold up sugar packets
taped together containing the equivalent
amount of sugar in each bottle. (Middle row) Dr. Weed points out points out that, though some
are labeled orange, grape or cherry, none of them have any real fruit
juice in them and are artificially flavored and some are made with
caffeine. (Bottom row. left) A camper hold one of the Soda-Free Summer
Pledge forms that were passed out to the campers. (Bottom row, right) Camp
Welch staff member Jordan
Gagne |
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