Children and obesity

“Until recently the halls of North High in Minneapolis were lined with vending machines where students could buy soda pop and other sugary drinks, as they can in most other high schools in the nation. But with rates of childhood obesity skyrocketing, the Minneapolis school district worried about pushing pop. The district needed a way to keep its lucrative vending contract with Coca-Cola while steering kids toward more healthful beverages.”

They replaced all but one of the machines with water and/or juice and began allowing water bottles in the classroom and tripled their sales.

Story about children and obesity here in US News and World Report.

Whether schools should be making money off students will be another story, I suppose.