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New Dietary Guidelines
Every 5 years since 1980, a new edition of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans has been published. Its goal is to make recommendations about the components of a healthy and nutritionally adequate diet to help promote health and prevent chronic disease for current and...
What is the alliance’s Healthy Schools Program?
We work with schools, companies, community organizations, healthcare professionals, and families to transform the conditions and systems that lead to healthier kids. Each child’s environment is our focus. The places children spend their time are the places that...
Here’s Why Cutting Sugar Intake Is Sweet For Your Child’s Health
Sugar is bad news, as one new study from University of California San Francisco and Touro University California researchers showed. But what actually happens to a child’s body when there’s high sugar intake and when the sweet stuff is removed from diet? According to...
National Park Service News Release
Release Date: October 1, 2015 Contact: Deirdre Hewitt, 404-507-5691, deirdre hewitt@nps.gov National Park Service to Assist Local Recreation and Conservation Projects Catawba Regional Blueways Plan: This project will ultimately develop a Regional Blueways Plan through...
Is Your Snack a Smart Snack?
Take the guesswork out of nutrition guidelines with the new Alliance Product Calculator for Smart Snacks! Simply enter the product information, answer a few questions, and determine whether your beverage, snack, side or entrée item meets the new USDA Smart Snacks in...
On the Air Interview
Closeup: 09/29/15 Dr. David Keeley Dr. David Keeley with Eat Smart Move More York County joins Patti Mercer on Closeup Fort Mill Tega Cay. A local physician, Dr. Dave Keely, was interviewed today about Eat Smart Move More York County on WRHI. In the interview, Tega...
Fewer food treats in the classroom
Letter to the Editor The beginning of the school year is the best time for parents to request that food treats be kept to a minimum in elementary school. I like to share my opinion with my children’s teachers, principals and PTA/PTO by writing a respectful letter...
Adult Obesity in the United States
Updated September 21, 2015: According to the most recent data, rates of obesity now exceed 35 percent in three states (Arkansas, West Virginia and Mississippi), 22 states have rates above 30 percent, 45 states are above 25 percent, and every state is above 20 percent....
Food at School Parties
Step it Up
Step it Up at the 2015 National Walking Summit US Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy released today the Call to Action on Walking & Walkable Communities in Washington, DC. This Call to Action calls on Americans to Step it Up in their efforts to grow the walking...
Smart Snacks
The USDA took a major step forward in releasing the Smart Snacks in School nutrition standards for all foods and beverages sold to students during the school day in vending machines, school stores, snack carts and a la carte lines, as well as through fundraising....