The region's youngest residents will learn the importance of nutrition and exercise thanks to a grant from the North Carolina Partnership for Children and Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Foundation.Not even close.
The organizations announced that eight Smart Start programs in the state, including much of Western North Carolina, will get money to help fight childhood obesity.
Smart Start is a public-private partnership aimed, in part, at preparing children ready for school.
The grants will help improve nutrition, physical activity and outdoor recreation at child care centers and fund community outreach to fight obesity. In North Carolina, at least 31 percent of children 2-4 years old are overweight or at risk for obesity.
“It will create a starting point for communities to address the obesity epidemic,” said Adele Spitz Roth, program manager for the Shape NC initiative. “It will lay the groundwork for the rest of their lives.”...
“Obesity prevention is a very important goal for us for young children in our community and child care is a very important place for us to start with that goal,” she said. “We've got a captive audience.”
They go home, which is where the nutritional child abuse happens.
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