Childhood Obesity (13) - Implement successful programs

The Ministry of Education should research and study programs that have been tried and became successful in other places. For example, the “TAKE 10!” program (Peregrin, 2001), launched in 2001, has been implemented by at least 16 states and 238 schools with amazing successful results. One successful example is that the city of Philadelphia, once labeled as “America’s fattest city”, after implementing the “TAKE 10!” program, has become one of the healthiest cities in the U.S.

Reference
Peregrin, T. (2001). TAKE 10! Classroom-Based Program Fights Obesity by Getting Kids Out of Their Seats. Journal of the American Dietetic Association, 101(12):1409-1411, 2001.