Child obesity community programs

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Helping children develop good eating habits early in life helps maximize academic performance during the school years and promotes wellness throughout their lives. Healthy Food Environments. There are many different programs and policies that can contribute towards the creation of healthy community food environments.

These include providing incentives for supermarkets or farmers markets to establish their businesses in underserved areas, placing nutrition and calorie content on restaurant and fast food menus, and implementing and supporting nutrition standards for childcare, schools, hospitals, and worksites. Healthy Hospitals. Hospitals reach a large population of employees, patients and visitors and can have an impact on neighboring communities. This makes them an important setting for obesity prevention efforts.

Physical Activity Community Strategies. There are many different types of strategies to increase physical activity in the community. These strategies include point-of-decision prompts to encourage use of paths or trials, individually adapted health behavior change programs, enhanced school-based physical education, and large-scale media campaigns that deliver messages by television, radio, newspaper, and social media.

They may also include efforts to increase the places where people can be active, such as opening school facilities to public use and creating walking trails.

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When appropriate, children are referred to community-based healthy weight programs. DNPAO works with partners to create and sustain mutually beneficial strategic relationships that promote healthy eating and active living for Americans of all ages. Strategies that support healthy eating, physical activity, and breastfeeding in child care, health care, school, worksite, and community-wide settings.

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