HEALTH and WELLNESS EDUCATION
Arcado Elementary is continuously working to be “Healthy and Fit”. The goal for National and Georgia PTAs Healthy Lifestyles programming is to help school and home environments make the healthy choice the easy choice.
Nearly one in three children in America are overweight or obese. Obesity has potentially devastating consequences for youth, increasing the risk of health problems such as heart disease, diabetes, and cancer. Children who are obese also miss more school than other kids. If we don’t reverse the current childhood obesity trend, this will be the first generation to live sicker and die younger than their parents.
PTA has an important role to play in reversing this trend. Problems exist both at home and school that could benefit from a stronger family-school partnership around advocacy, mobilization and family education—PTAs specific niche.
By advocating for nutritious school meals and quality physical education, ensuring healthy options are available at home, and modeling healthy behaviors, parents can create lifelong healthy habits within their families and school communities and foster their children’s academic, social, emotional and physical growth.
Click on the links below for more information.....
PTA Healthy Lifestyles: A Parent Guide
CDC Fruits and Vegetables: More Matters
Kids Eat Right
Healthy Fruit and Vegetable Snack Ideas
Smart Shopping for Fruits and Vegetables
Indoor activities
How to help your child be more active
Arcado Elementary is continuously working to be “Healthy and Fit”. The goal for National and Georgia PTAs Healthy Lifestyles programming is to help school and home environments make the healthy choice the easy choice.
Nearly one in three children in America are overweight or obese. Obesity has potentially devastating consequences for youth, increasing the risk of health problems such as heart disease, diabetes, and cancer. Children who are obese also miss more school than other kids. If we don’t reverse the current childhood obesity trend, this will be the first generation to live sicker and die younger than their parents.
PTA has an important role to play in reversing this trend. Problems exist both at home and school that could benefit from a stronger family-school partnership around advocacy, mobilization and family education—PTAs specific niche.
By advocating for nutritious school meals and quality physical education, ensuring healthy options are available at home, and modeling healthy behaviors, parents can create lifelong healthy habits within their families and school communities and foster their children’s academic, social, emotional and physical growth.
Click on the links below for more information.....
PTA Healthy Lifestyles: A Parent Guide
CDC Fruits and Vegetables: More Matters
Kids Eat Right
Healthy Fruit and Vegetable Snack Ideas
Smart Shopping for Fruits and Vegetables
Indoor activities
How to help your child be more active
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