Our Healthy Kids Project (HKP) here at ACCESS aims to promote healthier lifestyles for children, ages 5-10 years old, and their parents through active learning about physical activity, nutrition, environmental health and mental health. The goal of HKP is to try to help make living a healthy life fun and easy while engaging not only children but parents. This is the perfect opportunity for families to learn how daily behaviors impact personal health now and their influence on future health. It is possible to make a large impact by just a small change. Group sessions include height, weight, and blood pressure screening for children, health screenings and referrals, food preparation techniques, how to read nutrition labels, physical activity opportunities, safer household cleansers and a fieldtrip for families who attend regularly.
For more information, please contact Elizabeth Hughes, MPH Coordinator, Healthy Kids Project at
ehughes@accesscommunity.org
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In his questions at the Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee hearing on the Reauthorization of U.S. Child Nutrition Programs, Senator Dick Lugar asked Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack to elaborate on how the Departments of Health and Human Services, Education, and Agriculture plan to collaborate to improve school nutrition and lower incidences of childhood obesity. Citing recent reports that about 75% of our nations 17 to 24 year olds are ineligible for military service because of poor health and education, Senator Lugar encouraged Vilsack to continue to work with Secretaries Duncan and Sebelius to better connect federal nutrition programs with education and health programs not only to help our young people be better citizens and parents, but also to strengthen our national security. Likewise, Senator Lugar asked Secretary Vilsack to comment on how USDA and the Obama Administration propose to finance expansions to federal nutrition programs in the upcoming child nutrition and WIC reauthorization bill.
Our Healthy Kids Project (HKP) here at ACCESS aims to promote healthier lifestyles for children, ages 5-10 years old, and their parents through active learning about physical activity, nutrition, environmental health and mental health. The goal of HKP is to try to help make living a healthy life fun and easy while engaging not only children but parents. This is the perfect opportunity for families to learn how daily behaviors impact personal health now and their influence on future health. It is possible to make a large impact by just a small change. Group sessions include height, weight, and blood pressure screening for children, health screenings and referrals, food preparation techniques, how to read nutrition labels, physical activity opportunities, safer household cleansers and a fieldtrip for families who attend regularly.
Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/08/14/Marion_Nestle_What_to_Eat