Video Soda Sucks! - -from Health Happens Here in Neighborhoods

Soda Sucks! - -from Health Happens Here in Neighborhoods

Title : Soda Sucks! - -from Health Happens Here in Neighborhoods
Duration : 00:33
Channel : HealthHappensHere
Label : Soda Sucks, Junk Drinks, teen obesity, diabetes, misleading advertisement, healthy choices, water, health happens, protect children

Soda Sucks! - -from Health Happens Here in Neighborhoods

We stumbled upon this video by William Haynes from our Richmond Building Healthy Community site. He made it for a Soda Sucks contest (http://www.whysodasucks.com/) that challenges youth to create art that describes.....well, how soda sucks. Check it out and pass it on. At the California Endowment, we think soda sucks too. In fact, we don't even think "soda" is the best term to describe these drinks. Sport drinks, energy drinks, gigantic cans of sweetened tea.......they're all junk. So we call them "junk drinks." Like most young people, Will is bombarded by ads from junk drink companies. He and other young people are opting to dunk the junk. They're standing up for themselves and their health. They want to make their own decisions about what they drink. And not be dictated to by corporations' billion dollar marketing budgets. That's a good thing since junk drinks are a leading cause of the obesity epidemic. It's time for all California communities to make Health Happen Here and dunk the junk! Do you think junk drinks are hurting kids? Would you like to see healthier drink choices in your neighborhood? Tell us at http://www.facebook.com/HealthHappensHere At the California Endowment, we team up with partners on a long "to do" list to make health happen throughout California. Here's a few things we want to do about junk drinks: Raise awareness of the unique harm of junk drinks to our children's health Encourage Californians to kick the junk drink habit and drink healthy water instead Make fresh water available to all Californians Protect children and young people from misleading advertising claims. Elevate the voices of young people in the discussion about how to make healthy drink choices Find out more about what's happening by going here: http://www.healthhappenshere.org....and dunk the junk!

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