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Schools play a large role in preventing childhood obesity by providing a safe and supporting environment with policies and practices that support healthy behaviors. [48] At home, parents can help prevent their children from becoming overweight by changing the way the family eats and exercises together.
A 2007 American Journal of Clinical Nutrition article, "APPLE project: 2-y findings of a community-based obesity prevention program in primary school-age children", stated, "A relatively simple approach, providing activity coordinators and basic nutrition education in schools, significantly reduces the rate of excessive weight gain in children."
Chefs Move to Schools was founded in May 2010 as part of First Lady Michelle Obama's Let's Move campaign. [31] The Chefs Move to Schools program is a nationwide effort to teach culinary skills to school children and to get them to try new, healthful food options. [31]
The study found evidence suggesting that the nutritional quality standards —which leads to more nutritional food— contributed to less childhood obesity. [43] This meant that in the case of this study, the positive correlation between the school lunches and obesity was no longer apparent following the Healthy, Hunger-free Kids Act of 2010. [43]
School lunch nutrition is of particular importance currently due to the emerging childhood obesity epidemic. Using the definition of obesity as having a BMI-for-age of greater than the 85th percentile, approximately 31.7% of American children qualify as being overweight , whereas 16.9% of US children aged 2 through 19 years meet criteria for ...
The Childhood Obesity Task Force is a United States government task force charged with reducing childhood obesity in the United States. It was founded on February 9, 2010, by the Obama administration through a presidential memorandum, announcing the establishment of a Task Force on Childhood Obesity.
Obesity affects 20% of U.S. children nationwide; 73% of U.S. adults are overweight or obese, she said, citing additional statistics. ... It would prohibit food from being served to public school ...
The healthy BMI range varies with the age and sex of the child. Obesity in children and adolescents is defined as a BMI greater than the 95th percentile. [276] The reference data that these percentiles are based on is from 1963 to 1994 and thus has not been affected by the recent increases in rates of obesity. [277]