Success StoryEating Healthier and Physical Activity
Eating Healthier and Physical Activity
Author: Rhonda Reynolds
Planning Unit: Elliott County CES
Major Program: Making Healthy Lifestyle Choices (general)
Outcome: Long-Term Outcome
~~The Centers for Disease Control says Elliott County has a forty percent obesity rate. Some ideas the Partnership for a Healthy Elliott County Coalition had to help fight this was to install outdoor gyms at two of Elliott County elementary schools using funds from a grant through the Centers for Disease Control. The gyms have enough stations so that an entire class and their teacher can use it at the same time. The Expanded Foods and Nutrition Education Program Assistant went to classes in the schools and for the first half of the class period presented programs on healthier eating and food safety and then the students went outside to use the gyms. The principal stated every classroom is using the outdoor gyms every day.
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