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Thursday, September 02, 2010

You can play a role in providing access to healthy, affordable food for youth. Let's Read. Let's Move. encourages adults to get involved and make a commitment to help youth combat obesity and make healthy food choices. You can:

Conduct summer feeding program outreach
Create a community garden
Glean a local farm and donate the fresh produce

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Did you know?

Nearly 19 million children depend on free and reduced-price school meals for nine months out of the year; only 2.3 million children participate in the Summer Food Service Program
1 in 5 children in the US are overweight

A 2009 study of 5th grade students showed positive association between overall diet quality (fruit and vegetable consumption) and academic performance. Healthy eating also improves a child’s immune system, boosts energy levels and reduces stress.

Get involved. To get started, check out the toolkits. Join thousands of people across the county in service to provide access to healthy affordable food and create a healthier generation of kids by nourishing young bodies.

Young HEROES Promote Healthy Living

Healthy Foods

Youth Service America and UnitedHealth Group are tackling childhood obesity from a new direction: by asking children and youth across America to take action and address this critical issue. The UnitedHealth HEROES Service-Learning Grants, launched two years ago to support youth-led programs, have supported the initiatives of more than 360 schools and community organizations. Asking young people to have a meaningful impact on communities by implementing innovative ideas is an important part of service-learning, a teaching and learning strategy that makes connections between community service and curriculum.

Posted on 8/26/2010 1:42:38 PM

You Are What You Eat

Healthy Foods

Childhood obesity is a growing, yet often overlooked issue within Hispanic households. Families, including my own, often dismiss childhood obesity with terms like “gordito” or “llenito,” to overlook the fact that a child might be overweight.

Posted on 8/23/2010 3:38:29 PM

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