August 30/Boston/CBS -- New research suggests Boston's controversial ban on sugar-sweetened beverages has succeeded in limiting kids' consumption of soft drinks and sports beverages -- which some have identified as major contributors to the nation's epidemic of childhood obesity.
A study published in the CDC journal Preventing Chronic Disease shows that high-school students in the city averaged 1.38 servings of sugar-sweetened beverage per day in 2006. That was down from 1.71 servings a day in 2004, when the ban -- which blocks schools from selling the beverages on campus -- went into effect.