We Can!
The UMHS is an intensive site for We Can!
With approximately 16 percent of young people ages 6 to 19 now overweight, childhood obesity, and its additional health consequences, has become a public health epidemic. It is impossible to effectively tackle this issue alone. We Can! ( Ways to Enhance Children's Activity & Nutrition) is a collaboration between the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI); the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK); the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD); and the National Cancer Institute (NCI).
Visit the We Can! Web site and discover the useful tools and wealth of information about healthy lifestyles. Need some information right now? Here’s the Parent Handbook, Families Finding the Balance (PDF), for you to review.
Is someone in your family struggling to maintain a healthy weight? We Can! can help. We Can! is a healthy weight education program that offers practical strategies, useful tips and tools, and simple ways you can model healthier eating and physical activity along with resources you can use with your family. Project Healthy Schools offers this four – part series geared specifically toward helping parents with children ages 8-13 learn healthy eating and activity habits. Your group or organization or 10 or more people can sponsor this series, and Project Healthy Schools will lead it. Contact Project Healthy Schools.