Our nation struggles with ways to reverse obesity in young children. A recent report published in BMC Medicine states that a program from Iowa State University is showing some interesting findings. The Switch™ program--‘Switch What You Do, View, and Chew’--has demonstrated that by including children’s parents and teachers, promoting children’s consumption of fruit and vegetables, and lowering screen time helps children’s nutrition improve.
The results thus far are encouraging. The experimental group who participated in the Switch™ program had differences with fruit and vegetable consumption and screen time over the control group. Dr. Gentile states, “Although modest, these results are not trivial. The effects remained significant at the six month follow-up evaluation, indicating maintenance of these differences over time. This maintenance may contribute to reduced weight risks in the future.”
Source: Science Daily, September 28, 2009
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/09/090922095806.htm
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