The Current State of Obesity Solutions in the United States Workshop Summary (2014) / Chapter Skim
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(Lee) • Designating physical education as a core subject in schools and making better use of grassroots innovation and champions could help bend the obesity curve.
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. Based on this evidence, a multitude of guidelines and recommendations have been developed in which the following strategies are common: • establishing an environment that promotes healthy eating and physical activity; • incorporating healthy eating, physical activity, and body image topics across the school curriculum; • adding more time for physical activity both during the school day and throughout the school week; • improving the nutritional quality of school foods; and • providing training for teachers and other school staff on the imple mentation of such evidence-based health-promoting strategies.
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, through its Team Nutrition, has used the HealthierUS School Challenge5 to recognize schools that are making important evidence-based changes. In addition, nonprofit organizations and other national groups have developed programs such as Action for Healthy Kids, Alliance for a Healthier Generation, and ChildObesity180, which collectively have reached thousands of schools to change nutrition and physical activity policies, systems, and environments.
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There has been minimal implementation and evaluation of interventions that reach large numbers of K-12 schools and entire school districts. A Potential Breakthrough Action As a breakthrough action, Lee cited the need for federal, state, and local physical education and physical activity policies and practices that could dramatically change the landscape of physical activity in schools.
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"Without this type of relationship, it will be very difficult to achieve and sustain this level of a breakthrough action," she suggested. PROMOTING PHYSICAL ACTIVITY The United States is dedicated to increasing educational attainment and closing achievement gaps, yet policy makers often disregard emerging research showing that simple strategies such as physical activity breaks during the school day can improve academic focus and behavior in the classroom, observed Economos.
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"The most rewarding visual I have ever seen is an entire school of 5- to 12-year-olds on the blacktop outside exercising simultaneously with the entire school staff," said Economos. "That can be done at every school across America." Implementing such innovative physical activity programs at the local level requires identifying and supporting local school-based champions, noted Economos, including teachers, physical activity educators, administrators, parents, nurses, and cafeteria workers.
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Ensuring that everything sold to students is healthy and leveraging community, state, and federal resources to maximize the quality of students' educational experience could ensure that they receive both the nutrition and the nutrition education they need to have a healthy eating lifestyle for the rest of their lives.
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