CONTEST: Salud Heroes vs. Sugar

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4 Salud Heroes video playLatino kids get too much sugar, but not enough fruits and vegetables.

WATCH and VOTE for new Salud America! Salud Heroes who help fight sugar and push fruits/veggies by Feb. 29, 2016, and be entered in a random drawing to win a FREE T-shirt and jump rope!

Sugar Bites. County leaders built a toothy bilingual campaign to urge parents to choose water over sugary drinks for kids in Contra Costa, Calif.

Is Your Drink Sugar-Packed? Bexar County Judge Nelson Wolff and health advocates want folks to reevaluate their sugar intake in the San Antonio area.

Poets Fight the Fizz. Gabriel Cortez and other young minority poets joined with a health coalition to voice a counter-advertising campaign against sugary drinks in California.

Rx for Produce. A clinic teamed up with a farmers market to provide patients with fresh produce prescriptions to improve health in Forest Grove, Ore.

Growing Nutrition (and Biz). Students are learning farming, nutrition, culture and business skills at an innovative school garden at Bowie High School in El Paso, Texas.

Teaching Kids at the Market. Oregon farmers markets launched a club to teach kids who come to the markets about farming, fresh food, and healthy eating.

The #SaludHeroes with the most votes from Feb. 11-29, 2016, will get email and social media shout-outs from Salud America! by March 4, 2016.

Go here to vote, enter the random drawing, and see contest rules.

Salud America! is a Latino childhood obesity network funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) and led by Dr. Amelie G. Ramirez of the Institute for Health Promotion Research at the UT Health Science Center at San Antonio. Salud America! runs a periodic video voting contest.

By The Numbers By The Numbers

20.7

percent

of Latino kids have obesity (compared to 11.7% of white kids)

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