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 […]
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 […]
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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