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Summer is here.
Do you know what your child is drinking at summer camp?
The American Camp Association (ACA), the country’s leading camp resource and accreditation group, requires camps to take many steps to ensure the safety and well-being of young people. They also offer suggestions on how camps can help kids be active and eat healthy foods.
But ACA does NOT require camps to have a healthy beverage policy to gain accreditation.
That means, for the more than 2,400 ACA-accredited camps nationwide, none are required to refrain from serving campers sugary sodas, juices, or flavored milk.
Research shows Latino kids already consume more sugary drinks on average than their peers (see video below), so they have more to lose when camps recruit Latino families and then provide unhealthy sugary drinks during this critical out-of-school season.
Join our petition to tell the ACA they should take our children’s health seriously and add a “no sugary drinks” rule to their camp accreditation standards.
We don’t want kids guzzling sugar this summer; we want them to be healthy and happy!
Follow the campaign on Twitter at #NoCampSugaryDrinks.
The campaign is directed by Salud America!, a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation national program to reduce Latino childhood obesity, with direction from the Institute for Health Promotion Research at the UT Health Science Center at San Antonio.
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Maternal & Child HealthBy The Numbers
20.7
percent
of Latino kids have obesity (compared to 11.7% of white kids)
