As Other Schools Consider Following LA School District's Soda Ban Lead, Recent Report Offers Guidance.News Editors/Health & Education Writers LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 28, 2002 Last night's unanimous vote to oust oust tr.v. oust·ed, oust·ing, ousts 1. To eject from a position or place; force out: "the American Revolution, which ousted the English" Virginia S. Eifert. soda from the nation's second largest school district (Los Angeles Unified School District The Los Angeles Unified School District (the "LAUSD") is the largest (in terms of number of students) public school system in California and the second-largest in the United States. Only the New York City Department of Education has a larger student population. ) opens a new chapter in how schools around America think about protecting their students' health. As school officials reconsider the foods they sell on campus, a recently published guide, the National Consensus Panel on School Nutrition: Recommendations for Competitive Food Standards in California Schools," could be a key tool to help them fight America's epidemic of childhood obesity childhood obesity Public health Overweight in a child, an average BMI of ≥ 85% for age and sex; ≥ 95% for age and sex is very obese. See Body-mass index, Obesity. Cf Adult obesity. . "This is a watershed decision for the health of our children," Dr. Harold Goldstein, executive director of the California Center for Public Health Advocacy The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. (CCPHA), said of the Los Angeles School The Los Angeles School of Urbanism is an academic movement emerged during the mid-1980s, loosely based at the University of Southern California and UCLA, that poses a challenge to the dominant Chicago School of Urbanism. Board's decision to ban soda sales in all of its 677 schools. "Throughout the country, forward-thinking school boards and administrators are testing the waters and looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. guidance as they tackle similar campus nutrition issues." Goldstein points to the 23-page food standards report published by the CCPHA earlier this year to help schools address this issue. Developed by a panel of top school and nutrition experts from around the nation and funded by The California Endowment, the report addresses the issues and challenges schools face in making good nutrition decisions. More importantly, it provides concrete recommendations developed by a panel of experts to help schools successfully navigate through this process. "The panel did a remarkable job of offering very real, very concrete and very clear recommendations," Goldstein says. "These aren't pie-in-the-sky ideas. The report details solutions that are doable and realistic." Copies of the report are available on line by visiting the California Center for Public Health Advocacy Web site: www.publichealthadvocacy.org. The direct link is: http://www.publichealthadvocacy.org/school_food_standards/school_food_standards.html Note: the above url may not link properly, due to its length. For best results, copy and paste To copy files from one location to another or to copy text and images from one document to another. All modern operating systems and applications have a copy and paste capability that is typically selected from an Edit menu. See cut and paste and Win Copy between windows. directly into your browser. |
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