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Healthy Beverages
Tri-County Health Department (TCHD) supports lowering the amount of sugary beverages people drink and encourages healthy, hydrating beverages instead. We want to help communities ensure that serving healthy beverages is the standard, not the exception, in the places where we live, work, learn, and play!
Sugary drinks are the single largest source of calories and added sugar to a diet with no nutritional value. Sugary beverages are those with sugar added, such as soda, juice drink, fruit punch, lemonade, sports drinks, energy drinks, and sweetened teas/coffees.
Do you live, learn, work, play, worship, or just love to eat at restaurants in Aurora with your family!? Please take a quick survey about Healthy Kids Meals in Aurora and get entered to win a prize!
Healthy Children's Menu Campaign
Hidden Sugar Campaign
Many parents and caregivers are not aware of the hidden sugar in some of the beverages that they give to their children. The Healthy Beverage Partnership created the Hidden Sugar campaign with input from parents to educate about the harmful effects of sugar and the high sugar content in many beverages.
Through simple graphics, the Hidden Sugar campaign compares the sugar levels of drinks like juice, sports drinks, and soda to the sugar levels found in sugary foods and desserts, such as cookies, donuts, and more.
Healthy Beverage Partnership
Tri-County Health Department represents Adams, Arapahoe, and Douglas Counties on the regional Healthy Beverage Partnership. The Healthy Beverage Partnership is made up of six lead agencies: Boulder County Public Health, Broomfield Public Health and Environment, Denver Department of Public Health and Environment, Denver Public Health, Jefferson County Public Health, and Tri-County Health Department. Each agency is leading local efforts to engage residents in community-level work to improve beverages served, shift norms, and build healthier community environments together.
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Kathy Staats
Community Health PromotionPhone: 303-255-6235
- To learn more about healthy vending, concessions and meetings, view our: Healthy Beverage Partnership and Practice Toolkit (PDF)
- To learn more about the Hidden Sugar Campaign and to share materials, view our Hidden Sugar Educational Campaign Toolkit (PDF)
- Fill out this petition to support healthy kids meals in Aurora!
- Sugary Drink Consumption in Colorado
- American Heart Association Voices for Healthy Kids' Serve Kids Better webpage: