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About Health Dialogues
Health Dialogues is a special series from KQED's "The California Report" that facilitates an ongoing discussion of California health care issues that are important to the underserved: children, low-income residents, minorities, and people with disabilities to name just a few.
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Thu, Sep 18, 2008 -- 8:00 PM
Health Dialogues: Back to School, Childhood Nutrition
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 September edition of Health Dialogues examines childhood nutrition in the busy home, in the cafeteria and in the lunchbox.
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Host: Scott Shafer
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.
Guests:
- Corrie Fong, Student, Balboa High School
- Dana Woldow, Co-chair of the student nutrition and physical activity committee for the San Francisco Unified School District.
- Gisell Jimenez, Student, Balboa High School
- Kristal Davila, Student, Balboa High School
- Nancy Doan, Student, Balboa High School
- Patricia Gray, Principal of Balboa High School, San Francisco.
- Sylvia Brookback, Student, Balboa High School
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.
Diabesity
An interview with Dr. Francine Kaufman, MD, author of "Diabesity:A Doctor and Her Patients on the Front Lines of the Obesity-Diabetes Epidemic."
Guests:
- Dr. Francine Kaufman, MD, director of the Center for Diabetes at Children's Hospital in Los Angeles.
School Garden Trip
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.
Food Policy Legistation
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.
Guests:
- Matt Sharp, Senior advocate at California Food Policy Advocates.
News Segment: Sports4Kids
Health Dialogues talks with Sports4Kids, a non-profit organization based in Oakland that considers organized playground activity an important part of kids' health.
Guests:
- Jill Violet, president and founder, Sports4Kids.
