| Charles Tetcho School |
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Held a community campaign called, “Rethink Your Drink” to teach students, caregivers, and community members about the amount of sugar that can be found in commonly consumed beverages, as well as their impact on health.
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Community members were also challenged to make healthy beverage choices and consume more water.
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The school held a Hidden Sugar Demonstration to provide a visual representation of the amount of sugar in popular sweetened beverages using sugar cubes, sugar packets or teaspoons of sugar.
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Used stoplight images to teach kids about drinks they should drink rarely (red), occasionally (yellow), and plenty (green).
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Hosted a taste test with water infused with lemons, limes, berries, cucumbers, mint leaves, or other natural flavors.
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Taught children to read the ingredients on food labels to identify common high-calorie sweeteners such as high fructose corn syrup, fruit juice concentrates, dextrose, fructose, and sucrose.
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Discussed the importance of water to children:
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Water is an essential nutrient for life—we can’t live without it!
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Water represents about two-thirds of our body weight.
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Water is part of every living cell, and it’s a medium for all metabolic changes (digestion, absorption, and excretion), as it helps transport nutrients.
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Held a family/community think-tank activity to brainstorm creative ways to increase water consumption.
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Hosted a water drinking challenge that aims at consuming the appropriate amounts of water daily:
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Try healthy ways to flavor water: infuse with fruit, herbs, and other flavorful options.
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Bring your water bottle with you…. Everywhere! Make your water bottle an essential part of your daily life in everything you do.
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