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Childhood Obesity
Four Osceola County, Florida, schools use South Beach Diet for student lunches
December 7th, 2004
Four Osceola County, Florida, elementary schools created lunch menus based on the low-carbohydrate, lowfat South Beach Diet in an attempt to help about 2,700 students eat healthier. The switch is part of a children's health study by Miami Beach cardiologist Arthur Agatston, author of the best-selling South Beach Diet books. If the diet helps students maintain a healthy weight, the study may be expanded to other school districts. "We have to prove that we can go into a school system and without totally and expensively uprooting everything, make changes that will have a positive effect," Agatston said. Students have been measured,...
Source: Cardiovascular Business Week (2004-12-07)
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