Roosevelt High School student Johana Soto said she never paid that much attention to what she ate, even though she often had potato chips and Gatorade.
But this year, Soto said she has become much more aware of her bad habits and is trying to change them.
She credits Erikka Moreno, 22, who is teaching her, her classmates and her teachers lessons about healthy eating and exercise.
Moreno is the school’s first Health Corps coordinator, part of a nationwide program designed to reduce obesity in schools and communities.
The host of the popular “Dr. Oz Show,” Mehmet Oz, created the program in New York in 2003. On Thursday, he announced its expansion to several more campuses in California during a visit to the Los Angeles office of the California Endowment.
Health Corps takes recent college graduates and assigns them to public high schools for two years to teach classes, hold health fairs and serve as mentors. There are now coordinators in 15 California schools, including four with funds by the private statewide health foundation.
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