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Soft Drinks and School-Age Children
This kit provides a planned approach to address the issue of soft drinks in schools. It is full of strategies and resources to help you enhance your school nutrition environment. Soft drinks include soda, fruit-flavored and part-juice drinks and sports drinks.
The Kit includes:
- Soft Drinks and School-Age Children: Trends, Effects, Solutions Paper [PDF - 6 pages]
This is an overview that explores the trends in consumption by school-age children, the health consequences and possible strategies for change.
- Soft Drinks and School-Age Children: Trends, Effects, Solutions [PowerPoint Presentation]
This presentation can be used when recruiting team members and talking with groups. Portions of the presentation could also be used with school administrators and community groups when making your case for more healthful beverage choices in schools. The presentation is too large to fit on a standard disc. When preparing your presentation, select the Notes Page View, where you will find talking points for each slide, as well as appropriate possible activities and supporting handouts that will enhance your presentation.
- Supporting Materials:
These materials are intended to provide specific details and guidance for the issues addressed in the soft drinks overview paper. They are "how-to" ideas for getting things done.The first item you will notice is Plan for Change [PDF - 1 page], with subsequent materials organized to help you achieve the six steps outlined for change:
Note: To open the PowerPoint presentation (created with PowerPoint 97), you must have PowerPoint installed on your computer. To open and print the PDF files, you must have Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on your computer. Adobe Acrobat Reader is available free on the Adobe web site.
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