Research shows that healthy eating in school helps improve a kid’s health, motivation and his ability to learn and achieve. In the wake of rising rates of obesity among children, the government of UK has recently revised its school food standards to encourage healthy eating habits in school. It was after a survey conducted on […]
The formation of good eating habits and a desire to be physically active, when instilled at an early age, may have an impact on an individual’s behavior throughout childhood and adolescence. In addition to the primary influence that parents have in these developmental years, day care providers and providers of early childhood education can play […]
New parents want to give their babies the very best. When it comes to nutrition, the best first food for babies is breast milk. Breast milk is the most complete form of nutrition for infants. A mother’s milk has the ideal amount of fat, sugar, calories, protein and vitamins that is needed for a baby’s […]
WVohls activities are guided Everyday: A Statewide Plan to Improve Physical Activity and Nutrition”. The purpose of this state plan is to emphasize and endorse those intervention strategies that are evidenced based. The OHL, along with key stakeholders representing a variety of groups and organizations from around the state, developed the plan over the course […]
Communities are the places we call home, the places where global issues become personal issues. While parts of the socio-ecologic model stand within communities, by their narrower definition, it is the larger social fabric, physical infrastructure and political will in a community that has an important impact on the individual’s available choices and perceptions of […]
For the majority of students enrolled in WV colleges and universities this is their first experience of living away from home. Thus, this is perhaps the first time they have been in control of making decisions regarding their eating choices and physical activity levels. This population has also been historically a difficult population to intervene […]
Worksites are a place not only of employment, but a part of the social fabric of the community, of co-workers that are also neighbors, church members and relatives. Worksites provide an avenue of adult interaction in which individuals are exposed to their peer’s attitudes and behaviors, and also an environment in which employers have an […]
Children are influenced by parents, family, peers, and their perceptions of community and societal norms. Nowhere do these interconnecting levels of influence come together but in schools, making schools the ideal and essential organization in influencing a child’s positive behavior toward good nutrition and physical activity. Children and adolescents spend the majority of their time […]
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