Of Course It Works!

Five Philadelphia elementary schools replaced sodas, candy, and snack with wise food choices, juice, and good nutrition education. The result? Sit down, because you're going to be shocked:

After two years, besides fewer new overweight children, the overall number of overweight students at the five schools dropped about 10 percent to 15 percent. At the no-change schools, the number of overweight children rose a quarter to 20 percent.

I hope this evidence carries over to a more nation-wide effort for educating children on nutrition. Seems pretty simple, really:

“We found when you give children healthy choices, they pick them,” said Grace McGinley, school nurse at Francis Hopkinson School, one of the test schools.

Let's hope the next administration is way smarter than a fifth grader and get serious about childhood obesity.