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Friday 22 Jan 2016 - 16:24 Makkah mean time-12-4-1437
New York, (IINA) - Making water available in school cafeterias may have played a role in bringing down students' Body Mass Index (BMI), researchers found when reviewing the effects of a test program in New York, UPI reported.
Researchers at New York University Langone Medical Center said that the decreases in BMI were small but statistically significant, as it shows the potential for reducing obesity by making water more easily available.
The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and Department of Education installed electronically-powered jugs with a push lever, called water jets, in school lunch lines in 40 percent of schools in the city from 2008 to 2013.
According to researchers, schools that had a water jet for at least three months saw a reduction in BMI of 0.025 for boys and 0.022 for girls compared to schools that did not get the dispensers. Schools with water jets also had a 0.9 percent drop in risk of boys being overweight and 0.6 percent decrease for girls.
A previous study by NYU researchers showed that water consumption tripled in the first three months schools installed dispensers.
"This study demonstrates that doing something as simple as providing free and readily available water to students may have positive impacts on their overall health, particularly weight management", said Dr. Brian Elbel, an associate professor at NYU Langone Medical Center. "Our findings suggest that this relatively low-cost intervention is, in fact, working".
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