California Department of Public Health Encourages Californians to ‘Rethink Your Drink’
This is a press release from the California Department of Public Health:
The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) is working with local health departments and community-based organizations to promote Rethink Your Drink 2024, an ongoing public awareness campaign designed to encourage Californians to consider the risks of sugar sweetened beverages and to make healthy choices when it comes to their consumption.
Rethink Your Drink compliments CDPH’s recently announced Not So Sweet Side campaign, an overarching awareness campaign which reaches California families and communities through digital, radio, video and billboard advertising, as well as community-focused outreach efforts to reach diverse families across California.
“Research shows that sugary drinks are one of the leading contributors to chronic health conditions, such as obesity, type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and tooth decay,” said Dr. Tomás J. Aragón, CDPH Director and State Public Health Officer. “Through Rethink Your Drink, we empower families to reduce their sugar intake and choose water as a primary beverage.”
Rethink Your Drink is a year-round effort, but CDPH is increasing its efforts this September, working to bring together local health departments, health educators, community organizations, and others to raise awareness about healthier beverage choices and the health risks of consuming too much sugar.
September is also a crucial time for reaching communities and individuals as the back-to-school season begins, providing an excellent opportunity for families to focus on healthier beverage choices and build lasting habits as they transition into the new school year.
WHY THIS MATTERS: A significant proportion of added sugars in the American diet come from sugary drinks, and consuming too much sugar has been associated with an increase in chronic conditions and diseases such as obesity, type 2 diabetes, heart disease and tooth decay.
- Studies have found that regularly consuming sugar-sweetened beverages can increase the risk of both obesity and developing type 2 diabetes.
- Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States.
- Children with poor oral health and tooth decay tend to miss more school and receive lower grades than children with better oral health, while adults tend to lose more school or work hours for urgent, unplanned dental visits.
In July, CDPH launched the Not So Sweet Side campaign, an overarching education and awareness campaign designed to encourage Californians to make healthier choices when it comes to sweetened beverages. Rethink Your Drink, a long-standing awareness effort from CDPH’s CalFresh Healthy Living, compliments the larger campaign, encouraging direct action at the local level.
GET INVOLVED WITH RETHINK YOUR DRINK: Partners and families across California are encouraged to join Rethink Your Drink by accessing educational resources on the health risks of sugary drinks, available in English and Spanish.
- Rethink Your Drink Webpage
- Rethink Your Drink Beverage Breakdown Calculator
Whether hosting or attending Rethink Your Drink events in September, activities like educational booths, interactive games, and water taste tests offer fun ways to promote healthier drink choices. For event resources, visit RethinkYourDrinkDay.com. For family-friendly tips on making healthier choices, visit UncoverHealthyHabits.com or follow @CalFreshHealthyLiving on Facebook, Instagram, and Pinterest.
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In this wonderful world even the water needs re-thunk.. “Public Health” ???
My Dentist told me, 40 years ago, after my teeth were decaying between teeth, that Coca Cola has Phosphoric Acid in it, to give it a bite…
I quit soda, then and there, but now, 42 years later, I only have 18 teeth left…
Soda is a lovely thing, Beer is great, but water, is all I drink, besides Coffee, of course…
I hand-brushed my kids teeth, gave them the same lecture every night about how much dental work costs and how much pain it includes, got every step in the “California Teeth” process for both of them, including wisdom teeth out and braces in, and now, they both have perfect teeth and neither one has ever had a cavity…
When they turned 18, I told them OK, now you pay if you need dental work, because I already spent a fortune on those teeth…
Protect your teeth, or you won’t have any. Good luck if you like Soda and Beer, or meth and tobacco…
Scare your kids and brush their teeth yourself, flossing first…
Coffee is my only vice nowadays. Don’t smoke or drink, those days are long gone. I barely have any sweets and if a soda is NOT zero sugar, I won’t drink it. Water from a mountainside garden hose is still on the table, however, I still have some country in me. When you get past 40 and start to realize all those diet fads just screw you up in entirely different ways, you start to eat naturally, organically, and well…..what we should be eating anyway as that’s what our biology says to do. I know of few people past 50 that have all their teeth. Or even most of them. Part of aging but the effects of all the garbage we consume really start to hit after 40 and you either make some diet and lifestyle choices, or your own body will give you some direct and painful reminders. Stay healthy friends.
What is really good for those fossils in your mouth and the gums , is pressure washing them with a dental pic . My hygienist told me the best time is at night
Yup. I was told. I Finally got one, too…
I’d be more concerned about sugar substitute drinks that contain things like high fructose corn syrup, aspartame and the like. There are many products out there that say sugar free but instead use a sugar substitute. Always read the labels people. Funny how obesity wasn’t an issue until companies started using sweeteners besides sugar.
Interesting note…. Tic Tac’s claiming to be “sugar free”, are not really “sugar free”. They are really essentially all sugar.
Since the amount of sugar per serving (1 mint) is less than 0.5 grams, FDA labeling requirements permit the Nutrition Facts to state that there are 0 grams of sugar per serving.
Devil is in the details.
Yeah I noticed that cute little labeling thing too. It’s misleading as it legally can be left off the label, and then you have people eating 100 of them thinking zero calories or sugar, and that’s not entirely true.
After decades of the American corporate system promoting sugar crack water to its citizens, now is the time to market kombucha smoothies
I guess the Data finally come in?
Don’t forget to get your booster shot and your Bluetooth brainlink
Sure let us be like NY an ban soda in schools. Then we can ban certain books we do not like.it is time for the government too get out of are lives. If I want 32 ounces of cherry flavored coke with my double cheese burger get out of my lunch order.
You are still allowed to order a large soda with your large burger.
Nobody is stopping you.
Removing soda from schools is a very different topic.
It is also a very different from attempts to ban books.
And it is a topic that was never even mentioned in this press release.
At school? Maybe in college, but that’s not healthy when you’re in 4th grade. Not at all. What you do after class is your business. But then it was the school administrations themselves that allowed sodas and crappy food vending machines in the first place. Bring your own junk from home.
Yes they did. They were offered incentives by the junk food companies for permission to install the sodas and crap food machines. Also to provide it with school lunches. We have allowed the corporate machine to run over even our children and dress it up as “freedom”. Some try to resist but they are dismissed as”the crazy people”. Now we are all paying with our tax dollars for a public agency to rally a campaign to pull back what we’ve never should have allowed in the first place? Boy are we a bunch of suckers!
I totally agree!
Get those damn Chromebooks out of our schools!
Ha!
Yeah schools get kick backs/funding from objectively evil multinational corporations selling our kids products that are detrimental to their physical and mental health! On school grounds! The administration loves those machines!
So much better than using tax dollars!
Good for you, that’s You are right living in a free country. BUT don’t expect me to pay for your fucking medical care…
oh come on what books are you ok with being banned
“This Book is Gay” is not for children.
Curating libraries is not the same as banning books.
Hahaha! “Curating” is a form of censorship!
It kind of Is the same thing though? Especially given the context of the original post that we are responding to.
Way to take the bait..lol. What is curating to you? Is it not choosing which books are available to the public?
The U.S. allows over 10,000 food additives GRAS (generally recognized as safe). European Union, 414. It’s all about money.
This is getting old. Europeans have money. People without money never have a choice. Money is not the direct cause of every problem. But it certainly can be applied in bad causes.
Unfortunately the US has a court system where everything is open to challenge in a very expensive way. Anyone can sue the government for just about any reason. Something Progressives use quite frequently.
The result is “In the US, the FDA takes a notably more hands-off approach to testing and inspections, often allowing new food ingredients unless proven harmful. This includes ingredients, for example, GMOs, growth hormones and chemical preservatives.
In Europe, the EFSA requires additives to be proven safe before approval and has banned the use of growth hormones and several chemical additives.”
https://www.tilleydistribution.com/insights/food-regulations-in-europe-vs-the-us/
https://rdrglobalpartners.com/blog/eu-vs-us-food-regulations-understanding-the-key-differences
Cuts in funding for fda drastically reduces personnel for testing food additives. That’s a republican thing. Additives are cheep and making wholesome food costs more. We don’t matter. As Randy Newman said “It’s money that matters….” Of course we could just use Europe’s list….
It couldn’t possibly be that most of the members of the FDA used to be bored members of the companies they are now inspecting..
Extra Points for Puns!
This.
#followthemoney
This is an issue on which Kennedy is very knowledgeable. They made him out to be “crazy” in this election cycle but that media push on his “craziness” was really more about destroying any third party candidate and thereby reducing our democracy. He should have been part of the first debate-if only to open us up to a third perspective on major issues. It’s a shame to watch our democracy get lessened by the corporate media and to watch the herds of people accept and embrace the weakening of our democracy. And no I wouldn’t have voted for him but I would like us to have a more open discussion about our issues and allow us to reason with each other…
We definitely need to break out of the two-party system, and those two parties are definitely doing everything they can to keep it a two-party system, but Kennedy is definitely fucking crazy.
Two wings, same corrupt bird …
Ha ha! Maybe. Maybe he is overall “crazy”. But if you dig in you’ll find he’s actually quite educated and intelligent about a few things. Food additives being one. I was surprised by his level of competence on this issue myself.,..And I would have appreciated being able to see him as “crazy” in the debate instead if having the media define him for me….
The corporatocracy doesn’t want to let go of their puppets …
Anarchy is the only truly free system. No guarantee of safety, but life is full of unknowns.
If only our species weren’t so afraid of death – our egos are our undoing.
I was a young anarchist. Until I had to admit that the great majority are too stupid and/or irresponsible for anarchy. Any system will have fault, is not perfect. But our slide into oligarchy and corporate/military fascism as we embrace our late-stage capitalism is disturbing. It’s time for serious open debates, not censorship, not 2 puppet parties …
Agreed! And a=greed!
Maybe we could stop hospitals from giving new borns sugar water for the first thing in their mouth, And then suggesting to the parents they buy Similac baby formula..
Agreed.
#AmericanTragedy
#followthemoney
Let’s face it.Soda is definitely not a healthy choice. I personally don’t drink it ,but I don’t want the soda police telling you or me what I choose to drink .I have nothing wrong with educating children about what is healthy and what is not .If by the time your an adult and you haven’t figured that out , what can you say . Lol
I love me an occasional Mountain Dew! But yeah- potato chips too not good for you! Yum yum
Soda Pop can be used for dissolving corrosion off of car battery terminals. Imagine what it does to one’s digestive system.