The James Logan Courier

Last week’s announcement that most soda manufacturers will stop selling their sugary products in U.S. schools didn’t mention avoiding lawsuits as motivation for the self-imposed ban, but some of those who were threatening legal action to stop the sales are patting themselves on the back over the agreement, while lamenting that the deal doesn’t go far enough and planning to press for more restrictions.

Students at James Logan High School pass a Coke truck delivering goods as they enter campus.

By Mary Nguyen, staff writer

Birds are chirping and bells are ringing. But the bells rang differently
for a time at James Logan High school last week, and it wasn't a beautiful sound.

Hippocrates of Cos (c. 460 BC–c. 380 BC) was an ancient Greek physician. He has been called "the father of medicine", and is commonly regarded as one of the most outstanding figures in medicine of all time. According to the biographical tradition, he was a physician trained at the Dream temple of Cos, and may have been a pupil of Herodicus. Writings attributed to him (Corpus hippocraticum, or "Hippocratic writings") rejected the superstition and magic of primitive "medicine" and laid the foundations of medicine as a branch of science. Attributed sayings of Hippocrates include: "He who does not understand astrology is not a doctor, but a fool," and "There are in fact, two things: science, and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance." Little is actually known about Hippocrates' personal life, but some of his medical achievements were documented by such people as Plato and Aristotle.