As a Family and Consumer Sciences teacher, you are an important player in the national effort to confront childhood obesity. In this issue of FACS Classroom Solutions, we offer some tips to support you in your efforts to promote healthy living to your students and others.
The availability of nutrient-rich food -- that's affordable, too -- is key to addressing many of today's health issues, including growing concerns about childhood obesity. Roberta Duyff, MS, RD, CFCS, a nationally-recognized food/nutrition expert and author offers a few tips to help your students learn to make healthful food choices, even on a limited budget.
Now a part of Michelle Obama's Let's Move Campaign, the HealthierUS Schools Challenge encourages schools to serve more nutritious meals and offers monetary awards to help them achieve this goal.
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Healthy lifestyles are contagious. FACS students can be positive influences at home and at school when they demonstrate and encourage healthy habits.
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Some of Apple's many iPhone® applications can be great tools for supporting health and fitness. We've selected five that will help you and your students eat healthy and stay active.
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States that lead the way in reforms can compete for $4.35 billion in federal aid as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
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