Focus: Healthy People 2010 - Nutrition and Overweight

• Objective 19.7: Increase the proportion of adolescents who consume at least five servings of fruits and vegetables per day by 5% from baseline.
• Objective 19.10: Reduce the proportion of children and adolescents who are overweight or obese by 5% from baseline. Overweight or obese is defined as equal to or above the gender and age-specific 95th percentile of BMI from the revised NCHS/CDC growth charts.
• Objective 19.11: At a minimum, maintain current standards for Nutrition Education in schools (Grades K-12).

Team WrapUpPowerPoint
Case Study - Adolescent Obesity (pdf)

The October 2003 SE AHEC Team focused on promotion of healthy nutritional behavior and appropriate exercise activity throughout the pre-adolescent and adolescent populations.

Targeting as large a group as possible and using the CARDIAC Program as a vehicle for information collection and distribution, the team developed a brochure to explain BMI, the risks of increased BMI and cholesterol, and nutrition and exercise guidelines.

This community project reached more than 500 youth within Fayette County and more than 8,500 youth within West Virginia.