Nutrition and Physical Activity: adolescents
Courtesy of the Institute of Medicine
Check out selected communities who were selected to participate in Communities Putting Prevention to Work (CPPW), a federal stimulus-funded project that worked at the county-level to increase opportunities for healthy eating and active living through policy, systems and environmental changes. Many of these communities adopted Safe Routes to School as an overall strategy to increase physical activity and spent the duration of the project pursuing opportunities to institutionalize policies, systems and environmental changes that would support walking and bicycling to school and in daily life. Learn about the communities efforts and successes and get inspired. To learn more, visit http://www.saferoutespartnership.org/sites/default/files/pdf/CPPW-final-report-lo-res.pdf.
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National Health Education Week | October 15-19, 2012
Adolescent Health: Planting Seeds for a Healthier Generation
Nutrition and Action for healthy adolescents