Healthy beverages
Healthy Beverages Partnership
Garfield County Public Health and the Healthy Beverages Partnership are working together to reduce sugary drink consumption across Colorado. The goals are to reduce sugary drink marketing in public spaces and restaurants, decrease the availability of sugary drinks to children, and improve healthy options for families. Additionally, the partnership provides education about the relationship between chronic diseases and sugary drink consumption. The Healthy Beverage Partnership is funded through the Colorado Department of Health and Environment’s Cancer, Cardiovascular, and Pulmonary Disease Grant Program.
Impact of Food & Beverage Advertising on Children’s Health
On April 30, 2025 community leaders gathered to hear from experts and learn more about local efforts to improve beverage options for children and review local health data related to food and beverage consumption. Contact us to receive a recording of the seminar.
TAKE THE PLEDGE: Choose water campaign
Sugary drinks are the #1 source of added sugars in the American diet.
One of the easiest ways you can improve your health is to drink fewer sugary beverages.
Take the 2026 Garfield County Choose Water pledge and add your name to our virtual pledge list. Too much sugar of any kind can be harmful to health, but how we consume sugar matters almost as much as how much. This is because sweetened drinks are missing things like fiber, protein, and fat, which slow down digestion.
Liquid sugars enter our bloodstream quickly, spiking our glucose and insulin levels and bypassing our brain’s fullness cues. Because this happens so quickly, our livers can’t process liquid sugars as well.
When we have too much, our livers convert these excess sugars into fat, leading to things like weight gain, obesity, type 2 diabetes, cavities, and heart disease.
Resources
Healthy Beverage Partnership Members
District 16 Family Resource Center
Community Health Services
Mountain Coalition for Food and Nutrition Security
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