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The drop in soda consumption represents the single largest change in the American diet in the last decade and is responsible for a substantial reduction in the number of daily calories consumed by the average American child. From 2004 to 2012, children consumed 79 fewer sugar-sweetened beverage calories a day, according to a large government survey, representing a 4 percent cut in calories over all. As total calorie intake has declined, obesity rates among school-age children appear to have leveled off.
The change is happening faster in Philadelphia than in the country as a whole. Daily soda consumption among teenagers, a group closely tracked by federal researchers, dropped sharply — by 24 percent — from 2007 to 2013, compared with about 20 percent for the country. Last month, the city Department of Public Health reported a sustained decline in childhood obesity over the last seven years.
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Philadelphia, which also has one of the country’s strictest menu-labeling laws, for two years ran radio and television ads encouraging parents to think twice about serving sugary drinks to their children.
“It’s a fight every day, and you just have to stick with it,” said Mayor Nutter, who will leave office in January. “You can’t give up, because it’s just really important.”=

Donna Smith, principal of John Wister Elementary School in North Philadelphia, has been promoting that change for years. Her school is in one of the poorest neighborhoods in the city — more than 96 percent of its students qualify for free lunches. When she started there, children often came to school carrying shopping bags from local corner stores, full of chips and sodas or sugary fruit drinks.
She arranged for classroom breakfast service and banned junk food. She went to the corner store owners and asked them not to sell anything to children in the early morning. She sent letters home. She told her teachers they could not eat snacks in front of their students. While schools citywide have changed their vending machine offerings, her school has no vending machines at all, just water fountains. She told her students she would do “whatever it is going to take to get you not to eat that junk.”

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The drop in soda consumption represents the single largest change in the American diet in the last decade and is responsible for a substantial reduction in the number of daily calories consumed by the average American child. From 2004 to 2012, children consumed 79 fewer sugar-sweetened beverage calories a day, according to a large government survey, representing a 4 percent cut in calories over all. As total calorie intake has declined, obesity rates among school-age children appear to have leveled off.
The change is happening faster in Philadelphia than in the country as a whole. Daily soda consumption among teenagers, a group closely tracked by federal researchers, dropped sharply — by 24 percent — from 2007 to 2013, compared with about 20 percent for the country. Last month, the city Department of Public Health reported a sustained decline in childhood obesity over the last seven years.
...
Philadelphia, which also has one of the country’s strictest menu-labeling laws, for two years ran radio and television ads encouraging parents to think twice about serving sugary drinks to their children.
“It’s a fight every day, and you just have to stick with it,” said Mayor Nutter, who will leave office in January. “You can’t give up, because it’s just really important.”=

Donna Smith, principal of John Wister Elementary School in North Philadelphia, has been promoting that change for years. Her school is in one of the poorest neighborhoods in the city — more than 96 percent of its students qualify for free lunches. When she started there, children often came to school carrying shopping bags from local corner stores, full of chips and sodas or sugary fruit drinks.
She arranged for classroom breakfast service and banned junk food. She went to the corner store owners and asked them not to sell anything to children in the early morning. She sent letters home. She told her teachers they could not eat snacks in front of their students. While schools citywide have changed their vending machine offerings, her school has no vending machines at all, just water fountains. She told her students she would do “whatever it is going to take to get you not to eat that junk.”

Darren Rovell ‏@darrenrovell
FanDuel spokesperson Justine Sacco: 0.3% of total $ won on its site has been won by DraftKings employees. Believe that would be < than $10M

jerseyhoya wrote:

Darren Rovell ‏@darrenrovell
FanDuel spokesperson Justine Sacco: 0.3% of total $ won on its site has been won by DraftKings employees. Believe that would be < than $10M

THE Justine Sacco?! What a world

jerseyhoya wrote:

Darren Rovell ‏@darrenrovell
FanDuel spokesperson Justine Sacco: 0.3% of total $ won on its site has been won by DraftKings employees. Believe that would be < than $10M

THE Justine Sacco?! What a world

jerseyhoya wrote:

Darren Rovell ‏@darrenrovell
FanDuel spokesperson Justine Sacco: 0.3% of total $ won on its site has been won by DraftKings employees. Believe that would be < than $10M

THE Justine Sacco?! What a world

ReadingPhilly wrote:

jerseyhoya wrote:

Darren Rovell ‏@darrenrovell
FanDuel spokesperson Justine Sacco: 0.3% of total $ won on its site has been won by DraftKings employees. Believe that would be < than $10M

THE Justine Sacco?! What a world

i don't understand what advantage they supposedly have.

ReadingPhilly wrote:

jerseyhoya wrote:

Darren Rovell ‏@darrenrovell
FanDuel spokesperson Justine Sacco: 0.3% of total $ won on its site has been won by DraftKings employees. Believe that would be < than $10M

THE Justine Sacco?! What a world

i don't understand what advantage they supposedly have.

slugsrbad wrote:

ReadingPhilly wrote:

jerseyhoya wrote:

Darren Rovell ‏@darrenrovell
FanDuel spokesperson Justine Sacco: 0.3% of total $ won on its site has been won by DraftKings employees. Believe that would be < than $10M

THE Justine Sacco?! What a world

i don't understand what advantage they supposedly have.

I assume they can see percentage of entrants picked player X which helps determine better value picks.