Health Dialogues: Childhood Nutrition Featured in NPR Series
It's time for kids to go back to school, but what are they eating? The foods children consume now can adversely affect their future health, particularly their risk of developing obesity, diabetes, and heart disease. The 2008 September edition of Health Dialogues examines childhood nutrition in the busy home, in the cafeteria and in the lunchbox. Click on the underlind links below to access the audio files online. 
Balboa High School, San Francisco
Health Dialogues takes a trip to San Francisco's Balboa High School, where students and administrators are taking healthy eating habits seriously.
Junk Food and Soda Bans in L.A. Public Schools
Reporter Sarah Varney takes a look at the Los Angeles Unified School District, the first in the nation to ban soda sales on campus, and the challenges other school districts will likely face when following suit.
An interview with Dr. Francine Kaufman, MD, author of "Diabesity:A Doctor and Her Patients on the Front Lines of the Obesity-Diabetes Epidemic."
The State Department of Education estimates that half of California's public schools have school gardens that teach kids about the value of fresh produce. Reporter Rori Gallagher visits one of those gardens at Redwood City's John Gill Elementary School.
Public policy is an obvious way to try and affect our kids' eating habits. But does it work? Health Dialogues speaks with a food policy advocate to find out.
Health Dialogues talks with Sports4Kids, a non-profit organization based in Oakland that considers organized playground activity an important part of kids' health.
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