Elise Norton stands next to a poster explaining her Interdisciplinary Health Education Project at U-M's Spring Research Symposium. Norton interacted virtually with students who completed a five week Project Healthy Schools virtual storybook module called: "Making a Change."
Grand Blanc West Middle School celebrated National Nutrition Month with a poster contest highlighting the Project Healthy Schools goals. Check out the first place poster!
In March, Chartwells Food Service and PHS partnered to bring healthy beverage demos to Ann Arbor middle schools. Students sampled two kinds of infused waters -- orange and cucumber mint -- and learned how much sugar is in popular soft drinks. Read this article from the AAPS News.
On March 5, 3012, UMHS's Kim Eagle, M.D. and Susan Woolford, M.D. spoke at the Ann Arbor Public Library about the childhood obesity epidemic and community and clinical programs that are trying to reverse this dangerous trend. Watch the video.
Project Healthy Schools (PHS) provides a school-based
program to reduce childhood obesity and its long-term health risks. Focusing primarily on sixth grade students, PHS aims to
stem the tide of this epidemic by:
Healthy youth who continue to practice healthy lifestyles will grow into healthy adults with fewer risk factors for cardiovascular disease, diabetes and other chronic illness. Project Healthy Schools is one of the few school-based programs that have demonstrated significant improvements in both health behavior and cardiovascular risk factors, such as reductions in:
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