Via Campus Reform:

Students at the University of California San Francisco will be forced to get their sugar fixes off campus beginning July 1.

Officials at the public university recently announced that on-campus vendors will no longer sell a variety of sugary beverages. The policy will eliminate sodas, energy drinks, and artificial fruit juice while zero-calorie options such as diet coke and all-natural juices will remain available. The university will continue to allow students to bring sugary drinks onto campus if they’ve been purchased elsewhere.

According to UCSF’s Associate Vice Chancellor of Campus Life Services Clare Shinnerl, the new policy directly relates to the school’s mission as a university “dedicated to defining health worldwide.”

“We want to walk the talk, so I do think we have that added responsibility as a health sciences campus,” Shinnerl told Inside Higher Ed.

The school’s beverage ban comes to fruition three years after UCSF researchers published an essay in 2012 identifying excessive sugar consumption as a leading cause for major health issues.