Childhood Obesity

Four Osceola County, Florida, schools use South Beach Diet for student lunches

Published in Obesity and Diabetes Week, December 6th, 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,...

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