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Welcome to the Minnesota Beverage Association! The Minnesota Beverage Association’s members are producers, marketers and distributors of almost every non-alcoholic beverage you can image. Over 100 years the Association has been committed to promoting the best of the beverage industry through information dissemination, recycling programs, awareness campaigns and providing timely updates on industry activities. Earth Day Products now available! Click Here to order products made from recycled PET beverage containers! Breaking News! February 15, 2009:  The Alliance for a Healthier Generation, a joint initiative of the American Heart Association and the William J. Clinton Foundation, is committed to fighting childhood obesity by facilitating change in the environments that contribute to the quality of nutrition and access to physical activity for our nation’s youth. In conjunction with its Healthy Schools Program, the Alliance met with representatives from beverage companies PepsiCo, Coca-Cola, and Cadbury Schweppes as well as representatives from the American Beverage Association to develop a set of voluntary guidelines related to the sale of beverages in our nation’s schools. The guidelines will also serve as the beverage standard for the Healthy Schools Program recognition criteria. The standards encourage the availability of nutritious and lower calorie beverages and will both reduce the calories and limit portion sizes for caloric drinks available to students in schools. There is no one solution to solve the issue of childhood obesity, but the core of the problem lies with the fact that young people consume more calories than they burn. These guidelines are just one part of an overall strategy to decrease calories consumed while increasing calories burned. Along with the Alliance’s other strategies – improving snack foods and meals available to students and increasing physical activity and physical education – these guidelines could make a significant contribution to reducing childhood obesity. Click Here for the new guidelines
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