HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 34
(By Delegates Compton, Yeager, Susman, Mahan, Hubbard, Poling,
Spencer, Fleischauer, Douglas, Leach, Hrutkay, Webster, Marshall,
Brown, Hatfield, L. Smith, Smirl, Mathews and Warner)
[Introduced March 28, 2001; referred to the
Committee on Rules.]
Requesting the state board of education and the several county
boards of education to implement measures to insure that
school children in this state receive sufficient levels of
calcium in foods and beverages offered to them by the schools
in this state for normal growth and development.
Whereas, Calcium deficient diets are clearly associated with
many health disorders, including osteoporosis, hypertension,
preeclampsia, and colon cancer; and
Whereas, According to the centers for disease control in this
country, calcium deficient diets are an epidemic in the United
States; and
Whereas, Bones grow and incorporate calcium most rapidly during
the teenage years, and establish approximately ninety percent of
adult bone mass by age seventeen, but only thirteen percent of
teenage girls get the calcium necessary to build their bones to
peak capacity; and
Whereas, The National Institute of Child Health and Human
Development (NICHD) recognizes inadequate calcium consumption among
children and adolescents to be a growing problem and a serious
threat to their later health, growth and development; and
Whereas, Many children do not meet their needs for calcium
because calcium foods and beverages are being displaced by other
foods and beverages, like soft drinks; and
Whereas, Children of this state can receive calcium rich foods
and beverages at school without changing their dietary habits;
therefore, be it
Resolved by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That the state board of education and the several county
boards of education are urged to adopt policies and procedures that
insure that foods and beverages made available to children in the
schools in this state have sufficient levels of calcium to promote
good health and normal development; and, be it
Further Resolved, That the Clerk is hereby directed to forward
a copy of this resolution to the state board of education and to
each of the several county boards of education existing in this
state.
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