Water is healthy; it quenches your thirst and is good for your body, your skin and your brain. Drinking large quantities of sugary drinks is one of the causes of unhealthy weight in young people. By replacing sugary drinks with water or fruit-infused water, we can improve young people’s health. JOGG encourages children and young people to drink water through the ‘Apeldoorn Drinks Water!’ campaign.
It’s easy to take cartons of drinks or fizzy drinks to school, but these seemingly harmless drinks can result in an average sugar intake of 6 kilos per young person per year. Drinking water offers many benefits compared to sweetened drinks:
The aim of Apeldoorn DrinktWater is to encourage young people to drink more water instead of sweetened drinks. Drinking water at school helps pupils to be healthier and has many other benefits. It improves concentration during lessons and reduces waste.
Are you ready to drink more water at school? If so, sign your school up via the registration form. The JOGG coordinator would be happy to visit to discuss with you how you can incorporate water drinking into your programme. This could be done, for example, by drinking water one day a week, every day, or by linking it to a mentor lesson focusing on health. It can be done very simply, for instance by carrying out a sugar cube test.
If your school starts encouraging pupils to drink water, we’ll make it as easy as possible with letters to parents, posters and reusable water bottles. The support and resources are free of charge.
It’s now common knowledge that drinking water is good for you. But just how unhealthy sweetened drinks are can sometimes come as quite a surprise!
