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"Elementary schools across the country are improving the beverage landscape, showing that change is possible and it's already happening,""
- Lindsey Turner, Lead Research Author published in the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine.
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Effective, Affordable Small Business Wellness Ideas
By Terry Johnson, HEAL Director
Published in the NH Business Review
Many micro-businesses throughout the state are implementing effective wellness programs with very limited budgets by tapping into free and low-cost resources and selecting strategies that are appropriate and affordable. The Insurance Source in Keene, with seven employees, started focusing on healthy eating and active living for their employees six months ago.
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Schools falling behind in exercise
Recent reports have found that a majority of schools still don't offer students the recommended amount of physical education. Locally, there is a focus on improving nutrition and exercise in schools from health-centered organizations including Healthy Eating Active Living N.H., and Cheshire Medical Center/Dartmouth-Hitchcock Keene's Vision 2020 program. Wellness committees in area schools are also stepping up to encourage physical activity breaks during classes and participation in groups like running or snowshoe clubs.
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With new federal standards for school meals going into effect this month, and a renewed focus on the issue brought by the first lady, Michelle Obama, thousands of school chefs, food service workers and nutrition experts from around the country gathered in Denver this month at an annual conference put on by the
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 Recently revised guidelines from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force acknowledge that weight loss is not easy. They recommend that clinicians screen patients for obesity, which is defined as having a body mass index of 30 or higher. Further, they say patients who meet or exceed that level should be offered or referred to "intensive, multicomponent behavioral interventions" to help them lose weight.
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Boston Globe - A decade after an ambitious experiment dubbed Shape Up Somerville was launched to lower obesity rates in elementary school children, the campaign has been expanded and woven into the fabric of everyday life in this diverse city of 78,000, where 52 languages are spoken in the public schools and almost two-thirds of students come from families so poor that they receive free or reduced-price school lunches.
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