Reminder- - HEAL SLO



Reminder- The next HEAL-SLO collaboration meeting is November 15th from 2:30-4:30 in the Ag Auditorium. If you need directions please map quest the address 2156 Sierra Way ,San Luis Obispo, CA 93401.

** Please take a look at our new HEAL-SLO website. If you have any questions, comments, or ideas please contact Taylor Moore..

Fairgrove Elementary in Grover Beach Swaps Lunch and Recess

Fairgrove Elementary in Grover Beach just swapped lunch and recess this school year so kids play before they eat; some of the kids say they like the new schedules, others not as much. One study found that recess before lunch would lower the amount of food wasted from 40 to 27 percent. Advocates also say students return to the classroom more focused than if they had just come from recess. Read the full story on KBSY.

Healthy Communities Month

A Healthy Community is one that is continually creating and improving physical and social environments, and expanding community resources to enable people to mutually support each other and to develop their maximum potential. Please click here to see how HEAL-SLO is promoting a Healthy Community.

TV Can Shorten Your Life?

Watching an hour of TV after the age of 25 can shorten the viewer's life by just under 22 minutes. According to the AFP news agency said scientists at the School of Population Health at the University of Queensland studied 11,000 Australian adults who were aged at least 25 in the year 2000.

The academics checked their data against an estimate from 2008 that Australians aged 25 or above watched TV for 9.8 billion hours. This was associated with the loss of 286,000 years of life, the AFP said. An extrapolation of these figures found that a single hour of TV was responsible for the loss of just under 22 minutes of life, the news agency reported. Smoking two cigarettes has approximately the same effect. Read more here

McDonald’s Alters Happy Meals

The company announced Tuesday that it had planned changes to its popular children’s meal that will more than halve the amount of French fries in the package and add fruit. The new Happy Meals will be introduced in September. In most cases, they will include apple slices, or another fruit, and parents will have the option of requesting vegetables in lieu of fries. McDonald’s said its goal was to reduce calories in the meal package by 20 percent. A Happy Meal with chicken nuggets has 530 calories and 23 grams of fat, but the reconstituted version will have 435 calories and 17 grams of fat, according to the company. Read more here

Grant Opportunity

Your school may be eligible for a Share Your Breakfast™ grant during the 2011–2012 school year, courtesy of Kellogg’s and Action for Healthy Kids. Kellogg’s is teaming up to help schools increase student participation in the School Breakfast Program through Share Your Breakfast™ grants from Kellogg’s. The grants range from $750-$1,000 and also include significant in-kind contributions from Action for Healthy Kids in the form of people, programs, and policy expertise. Grant award amounts will be based on building enrollment, project type, potential increases in participation, and a school’s ability to mobilize parents and students around school breakfast initiatives. All schools meeting stated requirements will be eligible for funding. However, priority selection will be given to schools with school populations greater than 500 students, average daily participation around 35%, and a free and reduced-meals percentage greater than 50%. Register here for an information webinar on September 21 or click here for a grant application form.

Easy Meals and Snacks

Looking for a Healthy Cookbook for Teens? This cookbook contains meal-planning tips, healthy recipes and fitness tips to encourage adolescents to make more nutritious food choices through simple food preparation for themselves and their families. Click here to download a free copy of the cookbook . The development of this cookbook was funded by the California Department of Public Health (CDPH), Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health (MCAH) Division Federal Title V Block Grant and the California Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) Program.

CAPSLO and Equilibrium Fitness

CAPSLO and Equilibrium Fitness will offer a new program designed to enhance Community Health Center’s (CHC) and CAPSLO’s Project Teen Health (PTH) program at Arroyo Grande High School and improve the quality of health and fitness among local high-school youth.   The program, “Fitness Revolution Youth Leaders” (FRYL) program will build upon CAPSLO’s existing Project Teen Health (PTH), a program that utilizes a variety of approaches to combat childhood obesity including PTH’s afterschool 6-week Boot Camp, a fitness and nutrition program aimed at empowering youth at risk for obesity to take charge of their own health and make exercise their priority.  The Fitness Revolution Youth Leaders (FRYL) program will provide an opportunity for youth to become peer-to-peer fitness leaders. 

FRYL is a high-school based personal training/instructor certification program that teaches 9-12th graders the fundamentals of health, fitness, anatomy, physiology, and the art of training through an after school workshop.  Once certified, the youth trainers will be qualified to teach or assist with the 6-Week Boot Camp, the campus wide health fair, the Healthy Start PE Classes, and the one-on-one nutritional support services at CHC’s campus clinic.  The eventual goal is to expand the FRYL program to outside local recreation centers and health clubs.  FRYL will build upon the existing Project Teen Health Program at AGHS by enhancing overall structure and education by developing future health and fitness community leaders.  The goal is to certify 10 FRYL leaders through the initial pilot program and up to 30 each subsequent year.  The program could be replicated at other local schools including SLO High School.  The projected launch of this program is scheduled for December 2011.  This is yet another creative example of how local community collaboration can lend itself to effective measures to prevent childhood obesity.  For more information please contact Julian Varela at julian@ or call 805.541.1100.

Local Training Opportunities

Champions for Change

September 29, Ventura, CA

Sharing Best Practices for a Healthier Gold Coast Region

Featured speaker Bridgette Kidd, Kid Watch Program-University of Southern California

For additional information or to register, please contact:

JoAnn Torres, MA Network for a Healthy California--

Gold Coast Region

Ventura County Public Health

Email: joann.torres@ (805) 805.677.5267

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