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ORCUTT - Food Play is an award winning show teaching students to juggle a balanced diet.
Food play hopes to pull back the curtain and reveal the truth inside some of the foods students eat.
Soda contains the biggest sugar shocker. It contains 10 teaspoons of sugar.
Sugar that stacks up as kids drink an average of 600 sodas a year or 50 pounds of sugar.
Sweet stuff students don't need. Obesity has become the number one health epidemic in children. One in every three children is now overweight.
Food Play works! According to the Centers for Disease Control 75 percent of children report improvements in eating and exercise after watching the show.
Dozens of school districts on the Central Coast are changing the foods they offer for school lunch. In Orcutt they've added salad bars and cut chocolate milk.
Balancing student diets is tough especially with the struggle to balance school budgets. The s'Cool Food Initiative, a program of the Orfalea Foundations, paid to bring this dramatic lesson to Ralph Dunlap school.
The goal of the s'Cool Food Initiative is to empower and educate schools to make the switch back to scratch cooking.
