|
What is Schools for Healthy
Lifestyles?
Mission:
To promote and maintain healthy lifestyle choices in Oklahoma through
preventive, community-based school health education programs for students,
their families and faculty
Schools for Healthy
Lifestyles priority areas:
- Promotion of physical
activity and fitness
- Nutrition education
- Tobacco use prevention
- Injury prevention
Health Statistics:
- Obesity affects 1 in 5
children in the US
- Almost 75% of young
people do not eat recommended number of servings of fruit/vegetables each
day
- Each day, 3000 children
start smoking – 1 every 30 seconds
- Unintentional injuries
are the number one killer of ages 4 and under
Students who engage in positive health behaviors have:
- Higher graduation rates
- Better grades
- Increased performance
on standardized tests
- Improved attendance
- Lower dropout rates
- Fewer behavioral
problems
- More participation in
school activities
- Higher aspirations for
post secondary education
A healthy lifestyle not only impacts our quality of life now, but
every day of our future as well. Many of
today’s leading health problems including heart disease, cancer, stroke,
diabetes and injuries are due to poor lifestyle choices and are largely
preventable.
|
|
|
