Preventing Childhood Obesity - Making Healthy Choices Program

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" Making Healthy Choices Everyday "

Rollie Robin is an obesity awareness and prevention program designed to encourage physical activities and healthy food choices.

Dietary changes and enhanced physical activities result from rewarding children who record better food and exercise choices.

Eating behaviors are modified by recording nutritional choices in a daily journal, which encourages and motivates the children to eat more fruits and vegetables and other foods on the food pyramid.

Peer leaders present the program workng with Health Departments, School Health professionals, D.A.R.E. police programs, hospitals and local community organizations.

Geared to
preschoolers
to
3rd Graders

Family healthy choices are encouraged by rewarding family activities and nutritional changes. Many diseases and health problems are caused by poor eating habits and lack of physical activities, such as diabetes, heart congestion, kidney failure and others.