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Water IS BEST at home and school: give your child a drink bottle they can fill with plain tap water At home, keep sugary drinks for extra special occasions only. New Zealand tap water is safe to drink straight from the tap and it's FREE. Unlike sugary drinks, water doesn't cause tooth decay, obesity, or diabetes. When we're thirsty, water is perfect. Add fruit slices to plain water to make it more appealing. For more information: www.healthnavigator.org.nz/healthy-living/w/water/

Further resources

For more information

• Education Gazette: 2016: The year of the water-only school?
• Ministry of Education website page “Promoting Healthy Lifestyles”
• www.fizz.org.nz has information, YouTube clips, links etc. about fighting sugar in soft drinks. For example Susan Dunlop, principal of Yendarra Primary School in Otara, explains how her school went sugar free, and what transpired...
• Dentist encourages all marae to be sugar-free This video is in Te Reo (except Rob’s words). The second item in the video is about Rob Beaglehole.
• Health Promotion Agency Here you can order useful free resources including posters, table talkers and stickers to promote water as the best choice at school
• Stickers
• Tap into water, Nelson-Marlborough DHB
• Toi Tangata Waiariki
• Healthy Futures' resource
• Rethink sugary drinks
• Enviroschools
• www.nutritionandactivity.govt.nz/nutrition/sugary-drink-infographics
• www.rph.org.nz/public-health-topics/schools/water-only-schools/