Bay Area Nutritionists VS Sugar-Filled Sodas
Volume 3: December Comments Off
By Angelica Solis
Since sodas can cause jitteriness, nervousness, upset stomach, headaches, difficulty concentrating/sleeping and increased in blood pressure and heart rate. Sodas also have a lot of caffeine (Caffeine is a drug from many plants it is also in tea, chocolate, coffee, and many sport drinks and even pain relievers).Some ingredients in a soda can cause health issues like obesity and diabetes.
About 20 nutritionists from San Mateo and Santa Clara counties were strategizing on ways to launch a Bay Area-wide “Soda Free Summer” in 2008. This is Alameda County’s first effort to organize worldwide residents to get them to drink water, unsweetened iced tea, milk and low in sugar juice for ten weeks instead of sodas. In nearby rooms, dozens of their colleagues from Contra Costa, Alameda, San Francisco, and Marin counties were doing the same.
Their strategy sessions followed the announcement by the director of Nutrition Services for Alameda County, Diane Woloshin. She also serves on the leadership council for the collaborative. She said that 43 percent of a statistically significant sampling of 4,000 participants reported that they either reduced or abandoned soda consumption for ten weeks between June and August. Also, Woloshin on Monday was addressing an audience at a meeting of the Bay Area Nutrition and Physical Activity Collaborative, held in the state building in San Francisco. A number of Bay Area public and private organizations form the collaborative, which promotes sound nutrition and physical activity, particularly in low-income communities.
1) Information for this report was collected from San Jose Mercury News. (http://www.mercurynews.com/breakingnews/ci_7631941)
2) Information for this report was collected from Inside Bay Area. (http://www.insidebayarea.com/timesstar/localnews/ci_7630971)
3) Information for this report was collected from Kids Health (http://kidshealth.org/teen/nutrition/general/caffeine.html)
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