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Childhood Obesity News - Recommendations to prevent childhood obesity - Laconia Citizen

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The recommendations include legislative and policy strategies to make healthy eating and physical activity choices more available to children in school, after-school programs and daycare settings. By October 2010, the New Hampshire Board of Education should create statewide rules regarding the sale and distribution of all food and beverages sold in schools that are not part of the United States Department of Agriculture’s school meals program. The New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services should develop guidelines and an accountability procedure to ensure that all children in the direct care of the state receive a body mass index percentile-for-age assessment, at least one hour of daily physical activity and that meals served to them meet federal dietary guidelines. A law that requires all insurance carriers in New Hampshire (both Medicaid and private insurers) to provide a minimum of four registered dietitian visits, if clinically recommended, for all children with a BMI percentile-for-age equal or greater than 85 percent. Read Childhood Obesity

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