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Healthy
City Fall River offered people the chance to sign up for the Soda-free
Summer Pledge Campaign at the CD-REC
Kick-off to Summer on June 23, 2012 at Ruggles Park. The Pledge
challenges children and adults
to reduce or eliminate soda and other sugar-sweetened beverages from their
diet for at least the summer months. Similar campaigns have been launched
in California and Boston
in previous years. "We're finding more and more people who are savvy
about the health and dental problems associated with increased sugar
consumption,"
stated Healthy City Fall River coordinator David S. Weed, Psy.D.
"Reducing added sugar has become a major focus of efforts to reduce
overweight and obesity as well as pediatric dental disease", he added.
Pledge
forms and informational
flyers printed by Saint
Anne's Hospital, have been distributed through the Fall River middle schools during the last week of school, and
parents of younger children will be
asked to sign pledges at a variety of events this summer. Click
here for a |
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(Top row) School Wellness Coordinator Marcia Picard talks with Ebony, Alexis and Elizabeth Thomas and their mother, Chris and friend Brenda Desmarais at the Soda-free Summer Pledge table. (Middle row, left and right) Younger children enjoy meeting Mr. Tooth who emphasizes the importance of reducing sugar-sweetened beverages as a way of reducing tooth decay. (Middle row, center) Ms. Picard, Betty Nunes of the HealthFirst Adult and Pediatric Dental Care Program, and Healthy City Fall River coordinator David Weed pose for a photos with Mr. Tooth. (Bottom row) Ms. Picard talks with parent Alyssa Martel and children Naziaya Taillon, Jamyia Watkins about the alternatives to sodas and other sugar-sweetened beverages which can contain as much as 53 teaspoons of sugar in one two-liter bottle, |
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