"Rethink Your Drink!" LA's fight over Sugary Beverages.

I recently attended a quarterly meeting for the Los Angeles Collaborative (www.lacollaborative.org) which is a partnership of over 200 agencies fighting against obesity countywide. Our organization - Youth Activism Against Obesity/WereFedUp.com - makes up part of the Collaborative’s leadership team. At this meeting, professionals from different sectors gave their expert opinions on sugary beverage consumption and its link to obesity. The results were startling!

In moving forward with 2010, one of the focus areas for the collaborative is to educate individuals and work with all partners to promote projects that help others "Rethink their Drink". By working together and combining our efforts, we believe that we can create a ripple effect that will lead to dramatic changes all across the county.

To learn more about "Rethink Your Drink", please access the following resources and links:

LA Collaborative Links:
(1) Presentation: "Sweetened Drinks & Obesity: Helping Kids..."
(2) Presentation: "Soda's Consumption and Its link to obesity"
(3) Presentation (download only): "Rethink Your Drink Resources"
(4) "Rethink your drink Resources Handout"

WereFedUp.com blogs:
(1) Youth Created: "CA Study Links Soda Consumption to Obesity"
(2) Youth Created: "Soda Rehab! Calling all addicts!"
(3) NYC's soda campaign TV ad
(4) "How many Calories are in that soda? Let's do the math!"
(5) Youth Created: "Soda Consumption and Obesity"
(6) "Gain 25 pounds with the soda diet!"
(7) Youth Created: "For me, It was all about the sugar."
(8) Youth Created: "Life Changing Experience."
(9) Youth Created: "Why do I want to stop drinking soda?"
(10) "Is Liquid Sugar Making You Pack on the Pounds?"