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Posted 6.01.10 :: The California Center for Public Health Advocacy released the results of a statewide poll on Californians’ attitudes about taxing soda and other sugar-sweetened beverages as a way to fund obesity prevention programs. The poll found that, even in the midst of the current recession, a solid majority (56 percent) of California voters support taxing sodas and other sweetened beverages to fund childhood obesity programs. The poll also showed majority support in all major regions of the state, except the Central Valley: San Francisco Bay Area (60 percent), Los Angeles County (61 percent) and other Southern California counties including San Diego and Orange Counties (54 percent). Support was particularly strong among low-income (60 percent) and Latino (66 percent) voters. Legislation CCPHA is sponsoring (SB 1210, Florez) would establish a tax of one penny per teaspoon of added sugar or high fructose corn syrup, raising $1.5 billion for childhood obesity programs. For detailed findings and summary information, you can visit the Soda Tax Poll page on the CCPHA Website.
Posted 4.27.10 :: Santa Clara County: Supervisors ban toys with fast-food meals; read article...
Posted 5.31.10 :: MercuryNews.com: Soda Free Summer launch in Santa Clara County; read article...
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Latino Outreach for ReThink Your Drink at the Marin County Fair
Posted 7.17.10		 Alameda County 2010 Soda Free for Life
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 Posted 7.02.10
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 Posted 7.02.10
UCCE San Mateo-San Francisco’s Rethink Your Drink School Activity Addressing 4th Grade PE Standards

Posted 5.28.10		 RYD Station Set-up
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Posted 7.20.10
Re-Think Your Drink/Soda Free Summer is sizzling!

Posted 7.16.10
 Re-Think Your Drink/Soda Free Summer is hot!
Posted 6.25.10
Re-Think Your Drink/Soda Free Summer is going strong throughout the Bay Area. A few examples of local activities include:
  • Contra Costa County launched their Rethink Your Drink/Soda Free Summer campaign yesterday to lots of media attention—congratulations BANPAC members Luz Gomez and Andrea Menefee! (Members, please send more media about this event!)
  •  Mayor Newsom declared a Soda Free Summer in San Francisco June 21 SF Examiner
  • The SF Dept of Children, Youth and their Families is working with Shape Up San Francisco to include Rethink Your Drink/Soda Free Summer in SF Summer Feeding Programs, www.sanfranciscosentinel.com/?p=76761.  Congratulations on both items to BANPAC members Marianne Szeto and Christina Goette!
  • More media on the Santa Clara County Kick-off at the Children’s Discovery Museum.  Congratulations to BANPAC members Jo Seavey-Hultquist and Elizabeth Sills!
  • The California Dental Association promotes BANPAC’s Sugar Savvy Tip Sheets, curriculum and Otter materials at http://cda.org/patient_&_community_resources/patient_oral_health.  Congratulations to BANPAC members Joe Prickitt and Darlene Fujii!
  • Pediatricians at Lucille Packard Children’s Hospital clinics are encouraging their patients to have a Soda Free Summer, placing a sticker in their chart so that the patient is asked about sweetened beverage consumption at the next follow up appointment, distributing BANPAC’s Rethink Your Drink/Soda Free Summer action cards, and distributing “Drink Water!” Said the Otter in English and Spanish to young children.  Children who turn in their soda tracker at the end of the summer will receive a certificate.  Stanford Peds residents are ready to launch, along with Drs. Harris and Foreman, in July!  Congratulations to BANPAC members Candace Roney & Colleen Haesloop and Chris Wilder!
  • Shape Up San Francisco is working with SF Recreation & Parks Department to integrate the campaign into summer day camps. The camp counselors will be presenting part of the Sugar Savvy curriculum to prepare for Rethink Your Drink week, modeled after Mark Elkin’s successful program at SFUSD.  A poster contest will include prizes from Shape UP SF.  The camp parent letter includes instructions not to send soda or candy to camp with children.  The counselors will review this with the kids at the beginning of each week-long session.  Congratulations to BANPAC member Marianne Szeto!
  • Healthy Silicon Valley and the FIRST 5 Early Childhood Obesity Prevention Collaborative will be offering a Sugar Savvy Training Workshop June 29, 2010 from 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM, one of a series of FIRST 5 Santa Clara workshops tailored for those working with parents, youth and young children.  RSVP by June 24th to Joanne@first5kids.org.  Campaign action cards and Otter books will be given to participants.  Congratulations to BANPAC member Jo Seavey-Hultquist!
  • The Executive Director of Valley Medical Center Foundation, BANPAC’s fiscal agent, cut out diet soda as a result of the campaign at http://wildersideofhealth.blogspot.com/2010/06/saying-goodbye-to-my-diet-soda.html.
  • Soda Free Summer now in Boston

Posted 06.02.10
BANPAC’s Sugar Savvy Tip Sheet for Elected Officials will be distributed to local City and County policy makers at the Steps to a Healthier Santa Clara County’s Policy Forum on May 24th.

The California Dental Association has agreed to post BANPAC’s Sugar Savvy Tip Sheets for Professionals and Dental Patients on their Website!  More on that soon.…

Soda In America: Children And Families

Among many resources available at the Rudd Center:

  • A map of soft drink legislation filed in 2009 - 10 and other resources are available at the Rudd Center
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  • Trends in Television Food Advertising: Progress in Reducing Unhealthy Marketing to Young People?

  • The Rudd Center, together with The Obesity Society, has created new comprehensive guidelines for the portrayal of overweight and obese persons in the media.  Designed to assist journalists in their coverage of obesity-related topics, the guidelines help ensure that stigmatizing and pejorative portrayals of overweight and obese persons in the media are avoided.

Posted 06.02.10
BANPAC partner Santa Clara County again in the media for their local healthy food ordinance, part of Santa Clara’s Sugar Savvy/Rethink Your Drink initiative: Santa Clara County votes to ban toys that attract kids to high-caloric meals: Boston Globe, 4.28.10.

Also taking note:
Posted 06.02.10
California Center for Public Health Advocacy
California Center for Public Health Advocacy conducted a May 6, 2010 webinar on sweetened beverages and their contribution to obesity, and an overview of the four beverage bills being considered by the California Legislature.Speakers will include Gail Woodward Lopez (UC Berkeley Center on Weight and Health), Harold Goldstein (CA Center for Public Health Advocacy), Katie Woodruff (Berkeley Media Studies Group) and Kumar Chandran (CA Food Policy Advocates).
Posted 06.02.10
Revised Sugar Savvy Curriculum
Revised Sugar Savvy Curriculum is now online at www.banpac.org/resources_sugar_savvy.htm.  A Spanish revision is in the works thanks to Darlene Fujii & Alameda County Nutrition Services.
Posted 06.02.10
Santa Clara County, 4/27/10: Supervisors Ban Toys with Fast-food Meals
More at www.mercurynews.com/search/ci_14968786?IADID=Search-www.mercurynews.com-www.mercurynews.com.
Posted 06.02.10
Sugar Savvy Tip Sheets Now Available
View them at http://www.banpac.org/resources_sugar_savvy.htm#Sugar_Savvy_Tip_Sheets.
Posted 06.02.10
Sugar Savvy Workshop for Statewide Jr. Giants Commissioners
Darlene Fujii will be presenting the Sugar Savvy workshop to the statewide Jr. Giants Commissioners who represent 16,000 members at AT&T Park on Saturday, May 15!  Many thanks to master trainer Darlene Fujii for “pinch hitting” on a Saturday with short notice and also to Marianne Szeto, Tuline Baykal, and Joe Prickitt for establishing the partnership with Jr. Giants.
Posted 06.01.10
BANPAC’s 2010 Rethink Your Drink Initiative and Soda Free Summer Campaign
 BANPAC’s 2010 Rethink Your Drink initiative and Soda Free Summer Campaign got off to a great start at the April 28th BANPAC meeting at the Elihu Harris Building in Oakland.  After an inspiring introduction by BANPAC Leadership Council member Jennifer Gabet and updates by committee chairs Tuline Baykal and Sara Marin.

Lorrene Ritchie, PhD, RD, Director of Research, The Dr. Robert C. and Veronica Atkins Center for Weight and Health, U.C. Berkeley, spoke on Ten Years of Research on Sugar Sweetened Beverages and Obesity: Where we have been?… Where we are going?  Her immensely valuable presentation provided critical data for supporting our campaign!  It will be available at www.banpac.org/resource_meeting_materials.htm by Tuesday.  A rousing PA break, led by Carmen Bogan, got us moving, dancing, and smiling.  Very fun!!  Carmen demonstrated the difference between different levels of activity with three terrific models (thanks Denys, Jennifer and Lisa!).  She also explained that moderate activity is less moderate than one might think—you can talk but you don’t want to.  A panel of experts, moderated by Jackie Richardson of The Network for a Healthy California introduced BANPAC’s new Sugar Savvy Tip Sheets for engaging priority community partners, including dental professionals, elected officials, schools, youth programs, and early childhood care/education providers.  Pamela Arbuckle Allston, DDS captivated us with photos and stories of her innovative efforts to get her pediatric patients to stop drinking sweetened beverages—very creative!  Luz Gomez, former BANPAC Chair, provided useful tips for working with elected officials, she is deputy chief of staff to Supervisor Giola in Contra Costa Co.  BANPAC Leadership Council members Mark Elkin and Tuline Baykal presented useful strategies for working with schools and youth organizations and BANPAC member Elaine Taylor recounted her integration of “Drink Water!” Said the Otter into preschool nutrition education lessons.  Jackie ended the presentation with a helpful summary of how these materials can be used by USDA funded projects and programs. We were reminded that all of our funding is dependent upon evaluation data and encouraged to track train-the-trainer workshops, community presentations and workshops, exhibits and distribution of materials through a link on the BANPAC Website.  A raffle of all entries (multiple entries will be considered separately) will be held monthly. 

BANPAC Rethink Your Drink Committee member Marianne Szeto summarized the recent Field Research poll indicating support among Californian for a soda tax—see below.  After lunch, Annette Laverty and Lindsey Orbeta presented the updated Sugar Savvy train-the-trainer curriculum and we sampled delicious flavored waters prepared by Tuline Baykal.  BANPAC’s Food Security Committee met at 1:00 PM; the Youth Action Committee and New Member Orientation group met at 3:00 PM.Thank you!!! to all those listed above for your contributions to the meeting! And thanks to our enthusiastic particpants!!  A big round of applause to the BANPAC Leadership Council: Andrea Menefee, Joanne Seavey-Hultquist, Darlene Fujii, Mark Elkin, Lisa Craypo, Liz Sills, Jennifer Gabet, Shirley Watt, Tuline Baykal, and Sara Marin who developed and formatted the Tip Sheets, recruited our wonderful speakers, supported our funding efforts with Kaiser, and provided coffee and tea water for participants. 

Thank you also to the Rethink Your Drink initiative committee for contributing to the development of materials and strategies.  Many thanks to Network for a Healthy California—Bay Area and Santa Clara County Public Health Chronic Disease & Injury Prevention colleagues—including Joe Prickitt, Suellen Haggerty, Denys Williams, Tuline Baykal, Carmen Bogan, Maritza Rodriguez, and Lisa Chin—who did so much— setting up multiple displays throughout the day, making amazing flavored waters, researching updated Sugar Shockers data, providing recommendations for improving our tracking system, realizing we needed signs and figuring out how to make them without tape, finding AV equipment when there wasn’t any and making sure all the parts were there, stuffing and then re-stuffing folders, and keeping watch over the meeting to make sure everything went smoothly.  Thank you to the Alameda Co. Community Food Bank for providing coffee and tea and Sara Marin for showing up at 7:30 AM to prepare them!  If your name is inadvertently missed here—many thanks to you too.
Posted 06.01.10
BANPAC Development of an Updated Rethink Your Drink/Soda Free Summer Handout
BANPAC just completed development of an updated Rethink Your Drink/Soda Free Summer handout with action card which will be printed with a grant from Kaiser Permanente. Thanks to everyone who contributed to the development of the card: Marianne Szeto, Maritza Rodriguez, Darlene Fujii, Lisa Craypo, Shirley Watt, Gwenn White, Suellen Haggerty, Tuline Baykal, Mark Elkin, Liz Sills, and many more! Special thanks to Jo Seavey-Hultquist and FIRST 5 Santa Clara for contributing design, typesetting, and translation into Spanish and Vietnamese.  The card is currently in translation & typesetting and will be printed in early May.  Each county will receive a supply.
Posted 06.01.10
 BANPAC received a grant from Kaiser Permanente Northern California Community Benefit Program
 BANPAC received a grant from Kaiser Permanente Northern California Community Benefit Program to develop a one-page SFS/RYD handout w/ reply card. The reply card will suggest options along the spectrum of prevention and those who return the pledge card tear-off will receive ongoing emailed messages from BANPAC. The grant will also help support the BANPAC Website to include Soda Free Summer information.
Posted 06.01.10
Californians’ Attitudes about Taxing Soda and Other Sugar-sweetened Beverages Poll
The California Center for Public Health Advocacy released the results of a statewide poll on Californians’ attitudes about taxing soda and other sugar-sweetened beverages as a way to fund obesity prevention programs. The poll found that, even in the midst of the current recession, a solid majority (56 percent) of California voters support taxing sodas and other sweetened beverages to fund childhood obesity programs.  The poll also showed majority support in all major regions of the state, except the Central Valley: San Francisco Bay Area (60 percent), Los Angeles County (61 percent) and other Southern California counties including San Diego and Orange Counties (54 percent).  Support was particularly strong among low-income (60 percent) and Latino (66 percent) voters.  Legislation CCPHA is sponsoring (SB 1210, Florez) would establish a tax of one penny per teaspoon of added sugar or high fructose corn syrup, raising $1.5 billion for childhood obesity programs.  For detailed findings and summary information, you can visit the Soda Tax Poll page the CCPHA Website.
Posted 06.01.10
California Dental Association
The California Dental Association decided to conduct a Sugar Savvy training at their annual meeting in San Francisco in September, after observing Suellen Haggerty conduct the revised training at the Santa Clara County Public Health Department on March 23.
Posted 06.01.10
California Legislature: Sugar Savvy Related Bills
In April, the California legislature will considered four “sugar savvy” related bills, including:
* SB 1210 (Florez), a soda tax to fund childhood obesity prevention
* SB 1255 (Padilla), a ban of the sale of electrolyte replacement beverages in public schools
* SB 1413 (Leno), the requirement that schools provide free drinking water in school food service areas
* AB 2084 (Brownley), nutrition standards for beverages in licensed child day care facilities.
Posted 06.01.10
Last Day to Order “Drink Water!” Said the Otter in English or Spanish
Friday April 16 was the last day to order “Drink Water!” Said the Otter in English or Spanish.  Cost is $.77/each plus shipping. Jo Seavey-Hultquist of FIRST 5 Santa Clara is coordinating the reprint/revision, funded by Santa Clara County Public Health Department’s Steps to a Healthier Santa Clara County.  If your organization wants to purchase these materials (they are not Network approved) e-mail Jo TODAY at Joanne@FIRST5KIDS.ORG.
Posted 06.01.10
Last Year's Soda Free Summer Brochures
Please DO NOT use last year’s Soda Free Summer brochures, and tell your partners not to, unless you remove the reply card (address is no longer valid) and update the annual average sugar consumption (using stickers) to 100 pounds per year and ¼ pound per day. With both side panels removed, it provides an effective tracking form for use at workshops and community events.
Posted 06.01.10
Learn what Coca Cola is Saying About “beverages and tooth decay”
At http://productnutrition.thecoca-colacompany.com/articles/dental-health.
Posted 06.01.10
Lillian Castillo Contributed to Article on Youth & Fitness in the Gilroy Dispatch
BANPAC member Lillian Castillo contributed to this article on youth & fitness in the Gilroy Dispatch; www.gilroydispatch.com/news/264726-giving-fitness-a-fighting-chance.
Posted 06.01.10
 Marianne Szeto Reported Recently Touring a SFUSD Campus
BANPAC member Marianne Szeto reported recently touring a SFUSD campus.  They had several built-in locked glass displays, and she suggested to the principal that she put a rethink your drink display in one of them that can be there year round without worrying about tampering.  Send us your events & suggestions for the next e-blast!
Posted 06.01.10
Rina Shah, MD, FAAP had a letter to the editor published in the Times Herald on March 12, 2010
BANPAC member and February 23rd meeting presenter Rina Shah, MD, FAAP had a letter to the editor published in the Times Herald on March 12, 2010: Doctors can't cure childhood obesity about how small but critical improvements to school lunches could make a big difference for childhood obesity. Check out the article and send in your response as a BANPAC member at www.timesheraldonline.com/opinion/ci_14661994.

An article in the January 2010 Diablo magazine features Dr. Shah and her husband, Dr. Parikh from Kaiser Walnut Creek who both have doctor blogs at www.diablomag.com/Diablo-Magazine/January-2010/Health-Care-20/.
Posted 06.01.10
 San Jose Mercury News: Big Soda Should Pick Up Tab Role in Obesity Crisis, 3.15.10
Harold Goldstein, the executive director of the California Center for Public Health Advocacy, whose agency credited BANPAC’s Rethink Your Drink Initiative for setting the stage for current policy work to reduce sweetened drink consumption published an opinion piece in the San Jose Mercury News: Big Soda Should Pick Up Tab Role in Obesity Crisis (3/15/10 online).  BANPAC members: here’s a good opportunity to comment online about what your program is doing to counter the obesity crisis: www.mercurynews.com/search/ci_14681249?IADID=Search-www.mercurynews.com-www.mercurynews.com&nclick_check=1.
Posted 06.01.10
Santa Clara County Considering Restricting Toy Giveaways with Fast Food
BANPAC partner Santa Clara County is considering restricting toy giveaways with fast food, as part of their Sugar Savvy/Rethink Your Drink initiative.  More at http://bayarea.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/26/santa-clara-county-to-consider-restricting-toys-that-come-with-junk-food/.
Posted 06.01.10
Suellen Haggerty, Network Worksite Wellness Coordinator, Inspired Newsletter
Network Worksite Wellness Coordinator Suellen Haggerty sent us the Oakland Airport Hilton’s newsletter, featuring the wellness program Suellen inspired.  The newsletter reports that “The Hilton recently launched a new employee wellness program that focuses on consumption of healthier foods…The first topic was Rethink Your Drink in an effort to minimize soda consumption.”  Other topics including eating more fruits & vegetables and “enjoying 30 minutes of exercise daily.”
Posted 06.01.10
Sugar Savvy Summer Tip Sheets
 BANPAC Introduced Sugar Savvy Summer Tip Sheets at our April 28th BANPAC meeting.  Tips sheets will help dental offices, childcare providers/preschools, elected officials, schools, and youth programs become more “sugar savvy” and participate in BANPAC’s Rethink Your Drink/Soda Free Summer Campaign.  Thank you to Darlene Fujii, Jo Seavey-Hultquist, Mark Elkin, Andrea Menefee, and Tuline Baykal for developing the Tip Sheets, to the Rethink Your Drink Committee and Leadership Council for finalizing them, and to Andrea Menefee for the final design.
Posted 06.01.10
The Rudd Center has just Launched a New Legislative Database
The Rudd Center has just launched a new legislative database for policy makers, journalists, advocates, researchers and concerned citizens. The Legislative Updates database, which tracks federal and state bills filed during the current Congressional and state legislative sessions, provides detailed bill language and status updates. Issues include access to healthy food, school initiatives, menu labeling, sugar-sweetened beverage taxes, and more.