CapeGazette
Tuesday, Mar 25, 2008
Nemours Health and Prevention Services announced its 2008-10 advocacy agenda for regulatory and legislative changes that will encourage healthy behaviors in the places where children live, work and play.
The changes align with Nemours’ health promotion and disease-prevention activities and the Campaign to Make Delaware’s Kids the Healthiest in the Nation, the goal of which is to reverse the state’s trend of childhood obesity.
At the base of the advocacy agenda is Nemours 5-2-1 Almost None healthy lifestyle, which promotes eating five or more servings of fruits and vegetables daily, spending no more than two hours daily in front of a screen, getting at least one hour of physical activity and drinking almost no sugary beverages such as sodas and sports/energy drinks.