"The Shape We're In: School Days
-- The Starting Line"
Childhood obesity series for Knight-Ridder Tribune, underwritten by the
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, appeared in numerous newspapers
throughout the country in spring 2003
• Outlining
the crisis and some possible solutions being tried around the country
(This link is for story that appeared in the Miami Herald in June 2003)
• School
soda contracts are being revamped
• The
"Walking School Bus" is one way to get kids more active
• Statistics
illustrate the extent of the crisis