Long Beach has a desperate need for more programs to address childhood obesity. Of its adolescent residences, 21 percent are considered to be overweight and 25 percent are considered to be obese. This means that over 50 percent of our children in Long Beach are not at a healthy weight. In order to combat this problem, we must start with a better school health program that directly targets the need of this Long Beach population. In our plan to implement a childhood obesity prevention program, we will provide our population with the tools to fight obesity. The educational aspect of our program will have two components: nutrition education and physical education. The program will be implemented in two Long Beach, CA middle school campuses; Hamilton
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By using readily available tools, such as MyPlate, students will be educated about particular food groups, portion sizes for snacks and meals, and what the daily recommended intake for these groups are. Kids will learn examples of what healthy foods are and what those foods are composed of nutritionally that make them healthy. Students will be shown how ChooseMyPlate.gov and simple journals can be utilized to log their food intake to gain perspective on their current habits. Students will be asked to adopt one of these methods so that they can analyze their food choices later in the week. Using the knowledge they have acquired, students will go through their log and replace unhealthy components of their meals, with healthier solutions they think that they would eat. The physical education component will address how crucial activity is to health. The program will list benefits of physical activity including its potential to prevent disease, reduce stress, and maintain a healthy weight. Students will complete the physical education portion through other interventions provided by our program. We will also address the consequences if one continues to eat unhealthy and live a sedentary lifestyle. Students will learn that sedentary lifestyles and unhealthy eating habits have a direct impact on becoming obese, what obesity is, which routines can lead to obesity, what the health problems are …show more content…
called “ReThink Your Drink” and “Think Your Drink.” The campaign raised awareness of the negative health effects of consuming sugary beverages and caused a decrease in consumption in Sonoma County residents two to eleven years old (Healthy Sonoma, 2013). Furthermore, the state of Hawaii has utilized the campaign directing it specifically to teens using graphic depictions of teen’s drinking what looks like fat, the caption “Don’t drink your fat .” The study surveyed 600 teens who had seen the poster and 56% of them claimed they drank fewer sugary beverages after seeing the campaign poster (Huffington Post, 2013). Our intervention goal is to give students necessary knowledge and awareness to make key informed decisions on what type of fluids they choose to put into their bodies. The intervention is in the primary prevention stage attempting to influence students on an intrapersonal
By using readily available tools, such as MyPlate, students will be educated about particular food groups, portion sizes for snacks and meals, and what the daily recommended intake for these groups are. Kids will learn examples of what healthy foods are and what those foods are composed of nutritionally that make them healthy. Students will be shown how ChooseMyPlate.gov and simple journals can be utilized to log their food intake to gain perspective on their current habits. Students will be asked to adopt one of these methods so that they can analyze their food choices later in the week. Using the knowledge they have acquired, students will go through their log and replace unhealthy components of their meals, with healthier solutions they think that they would eat. The physical education component will address how crucial activity is to health. The program will list benefits of physical activity including its potential to prevent disease, reduce stress, and maintain a healthy weight. Students will complete the physical education portion through other interventions provided by our program. We will also address the consequences if one continues to eat unhealthy and live a sedentary lifestyle. Students will learn that sedentary lifestyles and unhealthy eating habits have a direct impact on becoming obese, what obesity is, which routines can lead to obesity, what the health problems are …show more content…
called “ReThink Your Drink” and “Think Your Drink.” The campaign raised awareness of the negative health effects of consuming sugary beverages and caused a decrease in consumption in Sonoma County residents two to eleven years old (Healthy Sonoma, 2013). Furthermore, the state of Hawaii has utilized the campaign directing it specifically to teens using graphic depictions of teen’s drinking what looks like fat, the caption “Don’t drink your fat .” The study surveyed 600 teens who had seen the poster and 56% of them claimed they drank fewer sugary beverages after seeing the campaign poster (Huffington Post, 2013). Our intervention goal is to give students necessary knowledge and awareness to make key informed decisions on what type of fluids they choose to put into their bodies. The intervention is in the primary prevention stage attempting to influence students on an intrapersonal