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More public schools need to get involved in adopting healthy food choices, banning soft drink vending machines, and encouraging schoolchildren to make healthier choices.

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• Lunch these days for about 2,700 grade schoolers is low-fat and low-carb - a la South Beach Diet.
• The menu switch is part of a children's health study by Miami Beach cardiologist Arthur Agatston, author of the best-selling South Beach Diet books.
• If the diet helps students maintain a healthy weight, the study may be expanded to other school districts.
• "We have to prove that we can go into a school system and without totally and expensively uprooting everything, make changes that will have a positive effect," Agatston said.
• Students have been measured, weighed and fitted with pedometers to count each step they take and encourage them to keep active.
• "We are not putting them on a diet, so to say," Agatston said.
• "We're teaching them to make better choices."
• Instead of breaded chicken products and the white bread sandwiches found at many schools, the students get grilled chicken fajitas and ham on whole wheat.
• The South Beach Diet eliminates carbohydrates during the first two weeks, but those restrictions were excluded from the school program.
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