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Get Healthy CT, a regional wellness coalition of hospitals, health departments and other health and social service providers, offers guidance to parents and students in its monthly Health Features Newsletter available online at www.GetHealthyCT.org.
The November edition includes such topics as:
- ADA Health Lunch Checklist – What’s in your Pantry?
- Back to School: 8 Things to Do to Help your Kids Succeed ·
- 4 Tips for a Healthy and Stress-Free Lunchbox
- Be Choosy in the Dining Hall
- Youth Physical Activity: The Role of Schools
- USDA Smart Snacks in School
- Get Moving Today Activity Calendar
- Let’s Move – Organize a School Health Team
Get Healthy CT focuses on a different obesity prevention topic each month and provides resources in print and online. Printed information packets are also available in some area libraries, community centers, regional health departments, and other locations.
The organization is a community coalition that works in the greater Bridgeport, New Haven, and Greenwich regions to make the “healthy choice the easy choice.”
It also provides information about being healthy and connects people to local resources to support healthy eating and physical activity through its website GetHealthyCT.org.
More than 150 businesses, non-profit and community organizations have joined the coalition, along with individuals and families.
Obesity rates in the United States are increasing due to factors such as portion sizes, food choices, lack of convenient supermarkets in neighborhoods, consumer advertising, food costs and more sedentary lifestyles. According to the Greater Bridgeport Community Health Assessment (2013), survey respondents in Bridgeport, Easton, Fairfield, Monroe, Stratford, and Trumbull report obesity rates ranging from 16 percent to 32 percent. The Greater New Haven Community Health Index (2013) lists obesity rates in the New Haven region from 18 percent to 31 percent.
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