I’ve been writing about Michelle Obama’s “Let’s Move” initiative to fight childhood obesity. Rubberecycle supports these efforts and encourages parents to take their kids to the park this summer. There are parks for children of all ages — including a video game park — which I’ll write about in a future post. The idea is to help your children be more active. They’ll sleep better, be happier and more fit.
Here are some ideas to help families make healthy food choices and choose ways to encourage physical activity:
- Launch a city website with information for parents on healthy living.
- Create a healthy food promotional campaign, and offer a “healthy eating” designation to restaurants who offer healthier food and beverages and reasonably-sized portions.
- Form a community coalition tasked with identifying local barriers to healthy living.
- Promote local community organizations that provide access to healthy activities.
- Through public service announcements and community events:
- Serve as a role model in your own community by adopting a healthy lifestyle.
- Encourage parents to become healthy role models for their children.
- Encourage parents to help children get off to a good start by promoting breastfeeding.
Tags: Child Health, Childhood obesity, Health, Michelle Obama, Obesity, Physical exercise
