Active Living

Daily physical activity is not only fun, but one of the most important things you can do for your physical and mental health. Daily physical activity helps prevent and manage depression and other chronic diseases like heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes and obesity.

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Physical activity is important for everyone. This includes gardening, walking or biking to school. Daily physical activity has been shown to help children do better in school, and improve the ability of older adults to stay active and prevent falls.

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Healthy Active Living

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1. Promoting Safety (2013) Highlights strategies for reducing the risk of injury while also promoting active living through walking, bicycling and increased access to public transportation. Download (PDF) Affordable Designs for Affordable Housing (2013) Focuses on feasible, low-cost ways to implement active design in affordable housing developments.
2. Schools promote healthy, active living to offset lack of physical education during pandemic. Haggerty, a personal trainer, nutritionist and health coach, was forced to shut her business down in.
3. The goal of the Obesity Prevention Program is to prevent and control obesity and other chronic diseases through the promotion and adoption of policies to increase healthy eating and physical activity in a variety of settings. Increase breastfeeding initiation, duration, exclusivity; Increase physical activity.

Healthy habits start early in life. Encouraging and supporting very young children to enjoy active play and choose healthy foods can set a lifelong pattern of healthy active living. There are lots of ways to grow healthy but you don't have to do them all at once. The 5-2-1-0 message provides suggestions for building healthy, active lives for everyone. Staff can share this information with parents as a reminder to make healthy choices every day.

These supplemental pages look at serving sizes for the different age groups and how they are different from adult portions. There are talking points for home visitors to use with families when discussing how to develop healthy meal routines.

Growing Healthy Family Goals Worksheet

All parents know that they should teach their children to eat healthy and encourage them to exercise. However, that can be hard to do, especially when it feels like everything about your current lifestyle needs to change. Head Start and Early Head Start staff may use this worksheet with families to help them start behaviors that will improve the health and wellness of everyone at home. The 5-2-1-0 message provides suggestions for building healthy, active lives for everyone in the family.

Growing Healthy Family Postcard

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The 5-2-1-0 message provides suggestions for building healthy, active lives for everyone in the family. Staff can share this postcard with parents to put on the refrigerator as a reminder to make healthy choices every day.

Food Faces and Salsa Gardens: Fostering Healthy Habits with Young Children

Ever wonder what staff can do to promote children’s health? Learn why and how to promote healthy habits for children’s nutrition, physical activity, and safety. Also, discover ways to help families continue healthy habits at home.

Active Play: Tips for Families

Head Start health managers and family service staff can use this fact sheet to share information with families on the NCH priority, active play. It includes tips families can use to help young children develop positive active play behaviors.

Healthy Active Living: Tips for Health Managers

This fact sheet helps Head Start health managers provide important information to program staff on the NCH identified health priority, healthy active living. It includes concrete information on the importance of physical activity, a healthy diet, and quality sleep to the overall growth, development, and learning of young children.

Health Services Newsletter: Healthy Active Living (July 2014)

Health managers are in a position to support and enhance the healthy, active living initiatives Head Start programs provide to children and their families. This edition of the newsletter offers strategies to engage staff and parents.

Health Promoting Schools Healthy Active Living Means

Topic:Nutrition

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Keywords:Physical activity

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Active Living

National Centers:Health, Behavioral Health, and Safety

Last Updated: November 4, 2020