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Omaha Benson High School
sophomore Matae Green, 15,
grabs a soft drink
on his way
to school. Howell's BP, a gas
station at 52nd Street and the
Northwest Radial, is where many
Benson students buy nondiet pop. |
The goal: slow childhood obesity by changing what's available to
students during the school day. A 20-ounce bottle of Mountain Dew — a
favorite at many high schools — has more than 18 teaspoons of sugar
and/or corn syrup and no nutritional value.
But diet pop isn't selling well in many Omaha-area schools.
At Ralston High, for example, the number of beverage cases needed to
fill the vending machines during the 2007-08 year — when the Rams first
made the switch — dropped by 48 percent compared with the year before.
The machines have Coke Zero, diet sodas, water, flavored waters and
juice.
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