Originally Posted by oceanbreeze

Again, the schools being babysitters, WTF are the parents??? I pack my kids lunches and neither have the options at school. My 12 year old won't even drink soda even if it's the only option.


"It's a really dramatic effect from a public health point of view. That's the good news," said Gary Foster, director of the Center for Obesity Research and Education at Temple University. He is also the lead author of the Philadelphia schools study being published Monday in the April issue of Pediatrics.

The bad news: There were still plenty of new overweight kids in the five schools — over 7 percent of them became overweight compared to the 15 percent in the schools that didn't make changes."








Philly school effort cuts weight gain - Yahoo! News