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This website was designed as a resource for those who wish to create a healthier learning environment for our youth. Despite the lobbying efforts of big soda and junk food companies, a tremendous wave of healthier alternatives in school vending machines and cafeterias is sweeping the nation. Legislators, community activists, teachers, parents, vendors, administrators, and most importantly, students, are stepping up to plate, and creating change...a change that will affect generations to come. With soaring obesity rates for children, and a surge in early onset diabetes, eating healthy is an idea whose time has come.
Special thanks to California Senators, Martha Escutia and Tom Torlakson, California Assemblyman, Joe Nation, and LAUSD School Board Members, Canter, Korenstein and Hayes, for putting our youth ahead of politics. A deep gratitude to Dr. Harold Goldstein and Rosa Soto for providing such a wonderful model for how non-profits can simultaneously be nurturing and successful. With greatest appreciation to Lisa Jones and Lilra Brown for their dedication to children's health. Special thanks to Cari Burstein, Webmaster Extraordinaire, for helping to create such a useful site, out of the kindness of her heart. And most importantly, to Archana Prasad, President of Venice High School's Students for Public Health Advocacy, the most amazing advocate for change I have ever seen. She is truly the greatest inspiration of all.
Jacqueline Domac
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." Margaret Mead
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