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Americans guzzled 13.8 billion gallons of them in 2009. \"These beverages represent the largest source of added sugar and excess calories in the American diet and have been linked to weight gain and type 2 diabetes,\" the authors write.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca title=\"http://cvp.ucsf.edu/faculty-kdomingo.php\" href=\"http://cvp.ucsf.edu/faculty-kdomingo.php\" target=\"_blank\">Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo\u003c/a>, an epidemiologist at UC San Francisco, was the senior author of the study. \"We knew that diabetes was a big problem and if you could do something to reduce risk of diabetes, that you would have a big impact. 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He's at the meeting with his mom, Gloria Arteaga, for their monthly check-in with their health coach, \u003ca href=\"http://www.lpch.org/clinicalSpecialtiesServices/ClinicalSpecialties/centerHealthyWeight/team.html\">Thea Runyan\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They meet every month to measure Gabriel's weight and height and talk about how well he's sticking to his exercise and healthy eating goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->The program is designed around a \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6417725\">traffic light system\u003c/a>. Soda and cookies are reds. Other foods are yellows or greens. Reds aren't banned, but kids do set goals for bringing down how many they eat each month. 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Kids set goals around playing or doing sports for an hour each day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Often the hardest part for parents is figuring out how to talk to their kids about weight, Zedeck says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A lot of parents call and say that their child has very high self-esteem, feels very confident, is very active, but they're overweight,\" she says. \"So they don't want to bring up their weight, because they don't want to make them feel badly about it if it's not a current concern for them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last thing a parent wants is to saddle a child with a self-image problem or eating disorder. So instead, Zedeck encourages parents to tell their child that the whole family could stand to be healthier, and the program is something they can do together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are often plenty of clues that a child actually wants help, Runyan says. For example, Gabriel asked his mom if he was fat. Other kids complain they can't keep up during soccer or basketball. But Runyan says parents, out of embarrassment or nervousness or their own issues with weight or food, can dismiss the problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think what happens when this issue comes up at home is the parent is quick to say, 'Oh, no. Nothing is wrong. Everything's fine. You are wonderful. I love you,' instead of listening and saying, 'OK, they're actually asking for help,'\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The program at Stanford has an enviable success rate. Since 1999, about 80 percent of the kids who've finished have achieved their body weight goals. Although most of the families were referred by a pediatrician, health insurers won't pay for it. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1590\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2011/12/FruitsVegetables_12212011_Flickr_Ali_Karimian.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-1590 \" title=\"Reports are that school children are ditching their healthy lunches, which include fresh produce, and sneaking in junk food. (Ali Karimian: Flickr)\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2011/12/FruitsVegetables_12212011_Flickr_Ali_Karimian-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Reports are that school children are ditching their healthy lunches, which include fresh produce, and sneaking in junk food. (Ali Karimian: Flickr)\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Reports say that school children are ditching their healthy lunches, which include fresh produce, and sneaking in junk food. (Ali Karimian: Flickr)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca title=\"http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-food-lausd-20111218,0,2593733.story\" href=\"http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-food-lausd-20111218,0,2593733.story\" target=\"_blank\">The Los Angeles Times\u003c/a> featured a lengthy piece last weekend on\u003ca title=\"http://cafe-la.lausd.net/\" href=\"http://cafe-la.lausd.net/\" target=\"_blank\"> L.A. Unified School District\u003c/a>'s apparent failure in its new much-touted school lunch program, overhauled to be more healthful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early in the school year, the \u003cem>Times\u003c/em> reports, L.A. Unified \"got rid of chocolate and strawberry milk, chicken nuggets, corn dogs, nachos and other food high in fat, sugar and sodium.\" With roughly \u003ca title=\"http://win.niddk.nih.gov/statistics/\" href=\"http://win.niddk.nih.gov/statistics/\" target=\"_blank\">30 percent of school age children now overweight or obese\u003c/a>, striking such unhealthy food from school lunches seems like a good place to start to coax kids to eat a healthier diet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the\u003cem> Times\u003c/em> claims the change has been a \"flop\" for many students. Stories of a black-market for junk food on certain campuses are reported, including kids sneaking in \"Flamin' Hot Cheetos\" and soda. And the school lunches themselves?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Many of the meals are being rejected en masse. Participation in the school lunch program has dropped by thousands of students. Principals report massive waste, with unopened milk cartons and uneaten entrees being thrown away. Students are ditching lunch, and some say they're suffering from headaches, \u003ca id=\"HEISY00003\" title=\"Abdominal Pain\" href=\"http://www.latimes.com/topic/health/symptoms/abdominal-pain-HEISY00003.topic\">stomach pains\u003c/a> and even anemia. At many campuses, an underground market for chips, candy, fast-food burgers and other taboo fare is thriving.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>And that's the way the story has been circulating--healthy school lunches are a failure. \u003cem>Mother Jones\u003c/em> excerpted the story under the headline \"\u003ca title=\"http://motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2011/12/kids-just-want-have-junk-food\" href=\"http://motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2011/12/kids-just-want-have-junk-food\" target=\"_blank\">Kids Just Want to Have Junk Food\u003c/a>.\" \u003ca title=\"http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2011/12/19/picky_eaters_are_thwarting_the_l_a_school_district_s_attempts_to_improve_school_lunches_.html\" href=\"http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2011/12/19/picky_eaters_are_thwarting_the_l_a_school_district_s_attempts_to_improve_school_lunches_.html\" target=\"_blank\">Slate\u003c/a> goes further and blames not children, but \"the snotty little brat factor,\" kids who will turn their nose up at anything new.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, wait a minute here. It's not until we're halfway through the article that we get to some actual numbers. The Times says participation at the start of the year dropped 13 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hmmm, down 13 percent, a \"flop\"? L.A. Unified Food Services Director admits the debut of the program was a \"disaster,\" and the District has since resolved some bureaucratic problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then the Times gets to the far less sexy headline: \"In the last month or so, the overall program has begun to recover; participation is down by about 5% or 6%, Barrett said.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, today, 94 percent of formerly participating children have stayed with the program. Before the District swapped out the menu, it held taste tests at its centralized kitchens and comments were overwhelmingly positive. Today, many of the new menu items such as vegetable tamales and salads are popular. The question, it seems, is real-world, on-site implementation. There's a difference between a taste test in a controlled environment and actually serving the meals day in and day out at multiple campuses. Students reported undercooked meat, soggy noodles and hard rice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonnie Christensen is the Executive Chef of the lauded \u003ca title=\"http://www.berkeleyschools.net/students-parents/food-service-menus/\" href=\"http://www.berkeleyschools.net/students-parents/food-service-menus/\" target=\"_blank\">Berkeley Unified School District lunch initiative\u003c/a>. Berkeley overhauled its menu six years ago and has received \u003ca title=\"http://www.healthyschoollunches.org/carrot/07winners.cfm\" href=\"http://www.healthyschoollunches.org/carrot/07winners.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">national awards\u003c/a> for its accomplishments. But the early days were a challenge. Each school site is different, with different staff and different equipment. Staff training is key.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The problem with food is there's always a variable. The broccoli doesn't grow the same way if there's a frost,\" Christensen told me. \"In foods, the problems translate immediately. If you didn't have enough people at work that day, you have to take shortcuts to get the work done. Processed food gives you consistency, fresh made from scratch is less consistent. The way to make it consistent is training staff and having better equipment.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca title=\"http://www.thelunchtray.com/about-2/\" href=\"http://www.thelunchtray.com/about-2/\" target=\"_blank\">Bettina Elias Siegel \u003c/a>blogs about school food reform on \"The Lunch Tray\" and \u003ca title=\"http://www.thelunchtray.com/l-a-kids-reject-healthier-school-food-my-thoughts/\" href=\"http://www.thelunchtray.com/l-a-kids-reject-healthier-school-food-my-thoughts/\" target=\"_blank\">wrote a post\u003c/a> about the \u003cem>Times\u003c/em> article. She, too, picked up on the quality control problems L.A. Unified is having and that \"over- or undercooked food is of course going to be rejected by school kids, as it would be by anyone.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>L.A. Unified has pledged to tinker with its menu. But Siegel asks a provocative question in her post: what if the five to six percent of children who have abandoned the program never come back and continue to make junk food their primary diet?\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>I know this might sound terribly callous, but I’m not sure I care. Because the hard truth is this: if we really intend to wean an entire generation of children off school food “carnival fare” (nachos, nuggets, burgers and fries) and introduce them to fresher, healthier entrees, \u003cem>we are, without question, going to lose some kids along the way\u003c/em>. In other words, it’s just not that surprising if a middle- or high schooler who’s seen nothing but \u003ca href=\"http://www.thelunchtray.com/childrens-palates-lunch-menu/\">“better-for-you junk food”\u003c/a>on his tray since kindergarten can’t make the leap to black bean burgers and salad, especially if there’s no context for healthier foods in his life outside of school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a kindergartener who’s never seen anything \u003cem>but \u003c/em>black bean burgers and salads in the cafeteria is going to be a much easier sell on healthier foods throughout his school years. And that young child is our only hope if we’re going to reverse current trends in obesity and poor lifestyle habits among our nation’s children.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\n",
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