Texas House bill restricts all sugary drinks sold in public school lunchrooms

AUSTIN — Aspen Jackson, a seventh-grader at Walker Middle School in Dallas, usually avoids sugary drinks at school and consumes healthier beverages at home.

Still, she wouldn’t be able to find her favorite drinks — whole milk and sugar-free Kool-Aid — at the North Dallas school, under legislation the House...

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Texas has 13th highest rate of obesity in U.S., study says

Jason Roberson reports:
Trust for America's Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, two nonprofit health research groups, said the state's adult obesity rate is 29 percent.


Their report, "F as in Fat: How Obesity Threatens America's Future 2010," shows regional and income disparities in the obesity epidemic. It says 10 out of the 11 states with the highest rates of obesity were in the South, with Mississippi's 33.8 percent obesity rate leading the way. Colorado, at 19 percent, had the lowest obesity rate.
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U.S., Mexico first ladies strive for healthy dialogue on obesity trend

Villagran reports:

Mexico's widening waistline mirrors that of its northern neighbor. In the U.S., childhood obesity has more than tripled in the past 30 years. Nearly 20 percent of children between the ages of 6 and 11 were obese in 2008, up from 6.5 percent in 1980, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Protection. In Texas, nearly a third of high schoolers and 42 percent of fourth-graders are overweight or obese, according to the latest data from the Texas Department of State Health Services.