Sentences with phrase «student obesity rates»

She added that observing a reduction in student obesity rates has helped food service staff to see how their work can positively affect others.

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Cooking for Change will bring together high school students from the food management program at Lima Senior High School and the culinary arts program at Apollo Career Center to design and develop a healthy eating initiative that will reduce obesity rates in Lima and Allen County.

The program was created to reduce rates of obesity and diabetes, but the school system hasn't yet collected any information showing students are healthier.

Officials describe the dinner initiative as having three goals: hedging against childhood hunger, reducing alarming rates of obesity and drawing more students to after - school programs, where extra academic help is available.

Tailor communications to each target audience to focus on what is of greatest interest while connecting the messaging with common themes (greater success of students with healthier meal programs, reduced obesity rates, and improved food service area as a community asset).

Education about healthy behaviors and the involvement of parents are crucial to making a lasting impact on obesity rates because students do not eat just at school, said Dr. Stephen Daniels, pediatrician - in - chief at The Children's Hospital in Denver.

Sleep deprivation is associated with lower diet quality indices and higher rate of general and central obesity among young female students in Iran.

Similarly, a report titled Tech Tonic: Towards a New Literacy of Technology, put out by the Alliance for Childhood last September, asserts that there's inadequate evidence to support claims that video games improve student performance, while overreliance on technology is contributing to rising childhood - obesity rates.

Linking Healthful Eating to Sustainable Living Educating young people about how their eating habits affect not just their own health, but other people's too, as well as the health of the environment, can help improve student food choices and cut obesity rates, according to the Center for Ecoliteracy.

Educating young people about how their eating habits affect not just their own health, but other people's too, as well as the health of the environment, can help improve student food choices and cut obesity rates, according to the Center for Ecoliteracy.

Students who graduate college have, on average, significantly better health outcomes with lower rates of obesity and heavy drinking.