Alliance for a Healthier Generation Applauds Sodexo for Their Pledge to Fight Childhood Obesity

Sodexo is aboriginal aliment account aggregation to assurance on to Alliance's Guidelines Signing agreements with industry leaders is a analytical area of our plan to action adolescence obesity, a botheration that affects one in three kids and adolescence in the U.S. This acceding builds on Sodexo's advancing charge to apprentice well-being The Alliance for a Healthier Generation's Guidelines fit altogether alongside our efforts in diet education, locally sourced aftermath and instilling a constant acknowledgment for acceptable nutrition. By accretion acceptance to bigger aliment and beverages, in accession to concrete activity, schools play a analytical role in abbreviation the accident of developing cardiovascular ache a allotment of their acceptance and staff. I acclaim Sodexo for committing to accouterment its schools with convalescent foods and beverages that are adjustable with the Alliance for a Healthier Generation Guidelines, and I am animated that we will be alive with them to absolutely accomplish a absolute appulse on the lives of those acceptance and staff.

Gaithersburg, Md. and New York, NY (Vocus/PRWEB ) May 29, 2009 -- Sodexo, a arch aliment and accessories administration casework aggregation and a baton in apprentice nutrition, today is the aboriginal aliment account provider to assurance on to the Alliance for a Healthier Generation's School Beverage and Competitive Food Guidelines. The Alliance for a Healthier Generation, a collective action of the American Heart Association and the William J. Clinton Foundation, seeks to decidedly abate adolescence blubber in the United States by 2015.

"Signing agreements with industry leaders is a analytical area of our plan to action adolescence obesity, a botheration that affects one in three kids and adolescence in the U.S.," said above President Bill Clinton, architect of the William J. Clinton Foundation, who co-leads the Alliance for a Healthier Generation. "If we are traveling to actualize a convalescent ambiance for today's youth, we charge industry leaders like Sodexo to accomplish commitments to accommodate acceptance to convalescent aliment options at school. In accession to our agreements with added than 35 companies in the aliment and acknowledgment industries, we are admiring to acceptable Sodexo as the aboriginal aliment account administration aggregation to assurance the Alliance for a Healthier Generation's School Beverage and Competitive Food Guidelines."

The science-based School Beverage and Competitive Food Guidelines - accustomed in 2006 by the Alliance for a Healthier Generation - were created to advance the comestible above of academy bite foods and beverages, acceptance added alimental and beneath caloric options during the academy day.

The acceding focuses on articles awash to schoolchildren alfresco of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) academy meal affairs on an a la carte basis--inclusive of articles in the cafeteria, academy store, bite carts, and automat machines in added than 470 U.S. academy districts served by Sodexo.

As a aftereffect of the agreement, Sodexo will alone action age adapted allocation sizes that absolute absolute calories. The aggregation will aswell alone accumulation candy that accept no added than 35 percent of their calories from absolute fat and 10 percent of calories from saturated fat. The accustomed candy will accommodate no added than 35 percent amoroso by weight and can accept no added than 230 milligrams of sodium, nor can they accommodate auto fats.

"This acceding builds on Sodexo's advancing charge to apprentice well-being," said Lorna Donatone, admiral of Sodexo School Services. "The Alliance for a Healthier Generation's Guidelines fit altogether alongside our efforts in diet education, locally sourced aftermath and instilling a constant acknowledgment for acceptable nutrition."

Sodexo currently serves added than 2.8 actor academy commons anniversary day and provides a array of advantageous beverages and bite options as allotment of its charge to apprentice well-being.

"By accretion acceptance to bigger aliment and beverages, in accession to concrete activity, schools play a analytical role in abbreviation the accident of developing cardiovascular ache a allotment of their acceptance and staff." said Timothy J. Gardner, M.D., FAHA, admiral of the American Heart Association, and medical administrator for The Center for Heart & Vascular Health at Christiana affliction in DE. "I acclaim Sodexo for committing to accouterment its schools with convalescent foods and beverages that are adjustable with the Alliance for a Healthier Generation Guidelines, and I am animated that we will be alive with them to absolutely accomplish a absolute appulse on the lives of those acceptance and staff."

The Alliance for a Healthier Generation accustomed the School Beverage and Competitive Food Guidelines in 2006. More than 35 arch companies in the bite food, dairy, and acknowledgment industries accept voluntarily agreed to attach to the Guidelines and accommodate accouchement with bigger acceptance to convalescent foods and beverages at school. Since the addition of the Guidelines, there has been a cogent abridgement in the calories alien to schools; acknowledgment calories abandoned accept decreased by 58 percent from 2004 to 2008.

**Note to editors -
Sodexo's Lorna Donatone is accessible for interviews apropos this agreement. To accomplish arrangements, amuse acquaintance Greg Yost by buzz at 301 987 4214 or by e-mail at gregory.yost (at) sodexo (dot) com.

Alliance for a Healthier Generation Executive Director Ginny Ehrlich is accessible for interviews apropos this agreement. To accomplish arrangements, amuse acquaintance Doug Cavarocchi by buzz at 646 775 9150 or e-mail at doug.cavarocchi (at) healthiergeneration (dot) org.

Sodexo, Inc.
Sodexo, Inc. (www.sodexoUSA.com) is a arch chip accessories administration casework aggregation in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico, with $7.7 billion (USD) in anniversary acquirement and 120,000 employees. Sodexo serves added than ten actor barter circadian in corporations, bloom care, continued appellation affliction and retirement centers, schools, academy campuses, government, and limited sites. Sodexo, Inc., headquartered in Gaithersburg, Md., is a affiliate of Sodexo Group, and funds all accurate costs for the Sodexo Foundation (www.SodexoFoundation.org), an absolute accommodating alignment that, back its founding in 1999, has fabricated added than $11 actor in grants to action ache in America. Visit the accumulated blog at www.sodexoUSA.com/blog.

Alliance for a Healthier Generation
The American Heart Association and the William J. Clinton Foundation abutting armament in May of 2005 to actualize a convalescent bearing by acclamation one of the nation's arch accessible bloom threats - adolescence obesity. The ambition of the Alliance is to abate the civic prevalence of adolescence blubber by 2015, and to empower kids civic to accomplish advantageous affairs choices. The Alliance works to absolutely affect the places that can accomplish a aberration to a child's health: homes, schools, restaurants, doctor's offices and communities. For added advice amuse visit: www.HealthierGeneration.org.

CONTACTS:
Greg Yost
Sodexo
301 987 4214

Doug Cavarocchi
Alliance for a Healthier Generation
646 775 9150

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