Citizens' Campaign for Commercial-Free Schools

JunkFood Campaign

News Items:

• Los Angeles Schools dump soda sales!
  • "L.A. schools to stop soda sales; District takes cue from Oakland ban"
  • "LAUSD: Last sip for soda"

• Statement by Sen. Jeanne Kohl-Welles to the Seattle School Board, Sept. 18, 2002, concerning the Coca-Cola contract

Information related to junkfood:

• "Overweight and Obesity in King County", Public Health-Seattle & King County

• "Call to Action To Prevent and Decrease Overweight and Obesity", Surgeon General report
  Schools section of above report

• "Foods Sold in Competition with USDA School Meal Programs", USDA report to Congress

• "Fact Sheet: Nutrition, Physical Activity and Achievement", Action For Healthy Kids

• "World Health Education', address by Gary Ruskin to the World Health Organization.

• "Intake of Soft Drinks, Fruit-Flavored Beverages, and Fruits and Vegetables by Children in Grades 4 Through 6", Cullen, et. al., American Journal of Public Health, Sept. 2002

• "Childhood obesity:public-health crisis, common sense cure", Ebbeling et. al., The Lancet, Vol 360, August 10, 2002 (available here for free, but requires registration.)

• Sample of a school menu, from Seattle Public Schools