Poll: Are Sugary Drinks a Problem in Howard County?
The issue was on display during a demonstration Tuesday.
Do you think children in Howard County drink too many sugary beverages? A new advocacy campaign is raising that very question. “Howard County Unsweetened,” an initiative sponsored by the Horizon Foundation, aims to expand healthy drink choices in the area, said foundation CEO Nicolette Highsmith Vernick in a press release. The campaign kicked off Tuesday when Burleigh Manor Middle School students in Ellicott City oversaw the dumping of 9.6 tons of “sugar” – actually white sand -- at the school. The 9.6 tons represented the amount of sugar the students of the school would consume if each had one 12-ounce soda per day in a year, according to a release. Representatives from the Maryland, Delaware, DC Beverage Association criticized Tuesday's …
Shawn
9:22 pm on Thursday, December 13, 2012
I concur Sanchez, Liberty is taken for granted in the USA. The majority can recite facts about their favorite NFL football team yet very few realize that the USA has been loosing it's Liberties ever so slowly, one at a time with greater frequency. The people of the USA believe the government has their best interest in mind and blindly accept the "small" losses of liberty for "the greater good". … more ›