Kristine Madsen

Since 2014, when a one-cent-per-ounce tax on all sugar-sweetened beverages was implemented in Berkeley, the tax was shown to discourage sugary drink purchases and increase sales of other beverages such as water. UC Berkeley’s pouring rights contract with PepsiCo outlines the beverage selection provided on campus.

UC Berkeley McNair scholars and directors struggled to find what went wrong after a denied federal grant application dissolved campus’s 30-year-old research scholarship that prepared underrepresented undergraduates for higher education. 

A study conducted by researchers in the UC Berkeley School of Public Health has found that sending body mass index, or BMI, reports taken at school to parents is ineffective in improving student weight status.

In the last three years, at least 10 different boba, or bubble tea, shops have opened near the UC Berkeley campus — yet the exponential rise of these popular, sweetened teas has elicited a slew of controversy from students and community members.

Campus researchers revealed a 21 percent decline in sugar-sweetened beverage consumption in Berkeley’s low-income neighborhoods following the nation’s first-ever soda tax in a study released Tuesday.

In a new effort to tackle childhood obesity, the Safeway Foundation recently awarded the campus School of Public Health a grant to promote research aimed at bridging health care facilities and the community.