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Topic: Childhood Obesity News - DuPage's Only Provider of Head Start Takes Aim at Childhood … - MarketWatch

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Lifelink is the exclusive provider of Head Start and Early Head Start in DuPage County, serving 484 children and 525 parents — at least 95 percent of whom live below the poverty level. America’s poor families are especially hard hit because of a convergence of factors — lack of neighborhood grocery stores carrying fresh fruits and vegetables, rising cost of nutritious foods, fewer safe parks and play spaces for exercise, and the ease and lower cost of fast foods for family’s daily menu options. Color Me Healthy(TM)/Salud Primero introduces a healthy nutrition and exercise curriculum to the children alongside a coordinated Health First program for parents, which is a more in-depth curriculum than is already being provided through Head Start parent trainings and Healthy Family curriculums. Color Me Healthy(TM)/Salud Primero curriculum highlights/goals — 100 percent of Lifelink Head Start and Healthy Families staff will be trained in the curriculum — 100 percent of children, ages 3-5, will participate in nutrition and exercise curriculum — 90 percent of Head Start teachers will spend at least one hour per week dedicated solely to nutrition topics and exercise sessions — 100 percent of children will be introduced to healthy fruits and vegetable tastings — 100 percent of children will indicate they understand the correlation between movement, nutrition and health by the end of the program’s inaugural year. Read Childhood Obesity

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