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WAVE Sport Nutrition Curriculum
The WAVE Sport Nutrition Curriculum uses youth's interest in sports to teach them about healthy eating and hydration to fuel a healthy, active body for life. This knowledge helps athletes manage body weight and avoid unwanted weight gain in adulthood. Although the curriculum was pilot-tested with...
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GROW Healthy Kids and Communities – Reporting Back After 5 Years in Communities
In the Summer 2014 issue of Oregon Small Farm News, our colleagues in the College of Public Health and Human Sciences Extension reported on GROW Healthy Kids and Communities (GROW), an innovative,...
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Exercise Tutorials
View and participate in Better Bones and Balance exercises from your own home!
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The WAVE~Ripples for Change: Obesity Prevention in Active Youth
OSU project directors Siew Sun Wong, an assistant professor of nutrition and a specialist with the Extension Service, and Melinda Manore, a professor of nutrition, were awarded $4.7 million to start the program, called “The WAVE Ripples for Change: Obesity Prevention for Active Youth in Afterschool Programs Using Virtual and Real-World Experiential Learning.”
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School Physical Activity and Nutrition Environment Tool (SPAN-ET)
The School Physical Activity and Nutrition Environment Tool (SPAN-ET) was developed to assess school resources and readiness to improve nutrition and physical activity environments, suggest appropriate improvement strategies, and score impacts resulting from environmentally-based treatments. The assessment tool includes 27 Area of Interest items in physical activity and nutrition, and considers the physical, situational, and policy environment within each component.
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HEAL MAPPS™
HEAL MAPPS™ is an award winning Extension Family & Community Health community engagement program. HEAL MAPPS™ helps communities document people’s experience related to supports and barriers for healthy eating and physical activity. We will provide your community with a MAPPS™ report to help facilitate and guide your community’s efforts for creating an environment that supports eating healthy and being physically active.
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Physical activity lacking for food-insecure Oregon rural children
Oct 9, 2017
Findings lead researchers to coin term "physical activity insecurity".
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OSU Extension toolkit has rural students stepping up their physical activity
Aug 10, 2017
Unique school-based approach to childhood obesity prevention