An action guide for institutional and environmental change related to sugar-sweetened beverages

Emergent public health efforts to promote healthy eating are increasingly directed at environmental and policy changes to curb consumption of sugar sweetened beverages (SSB), the largest source of added sugars in the American diet and a major contributor to the obesity, diabetes, and heart disease epidemics. The Childhood Obesity Prevention Coalition (COPC), in partnership with Public Health – Seattle & King County, is in the process of developing and testing sustainable workplace and organization-based policy strategies and institutional changes related to sugary drinks. This project assessed the results of COPC’s earliest efforts to develop an institutional change package to reduce soda and sugary drink consumption in organizational settings.

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• Poster

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Project Type(s): MPH Practicum, PH Concentration Poster

Author(s): Bridget Igoe

Program(s): Master of Public Health, RDN Training

Year: 2012

Adviser(s):

• Anne Lund