I was reading this article, "Water Jets In Schools Help Kids Lose Weight: This Is How Water Can Help Combat Obesity," (see below) and I started to feel a certain way about the truth of this study.
To give you an overview of the article. Seven years ago in New York experts installed filtered water dispensers into the New York City schools. They only put dispensers in about 40 percent of the schools during the academic years 2008-2009 through 2013-2013.
The experts are claiming from the finding that installing the water jets resulted in moderate but significant level of weight loss in children.
This is where I call bull-donkey on their findings. A new dispenser for water caused the decrease in child weight loss, because I'm looking at one thing
WATER FOUNTAINS!!!!
Water Fountains have been around since 19th century, and been in schools FOREVER!!! Why is changing the way they get water making such a big difference on the children's weight? Better question is are they really making a difference or is it something else?
Remember New York City just passed a law, where public schools were no longer allowed to sell sweetened beverages (Cokes, Pops, or Sodas depending on where you are from).
My question to these experts would be, "Did they analyze the schools who don't have water jets to see if they had a reduction in weight loss in their schools too?" "Did the private schools who are allowed to sell sweetened beverages see an increase in their students weight?"
I love water and it's great they have an cool source of water for schools, but I don't want other schools in America to go out and pay the $1000 (which isn't that much), to purchase these water jets thinking it's going to stop obesity. Making laws like no sweet beverages in schools is most likely the reduction in weight loss.
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