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The NC HDSP Program will continue to collaborate with the NC HWI to achieve their objectives, which focus on reducing the proportion of NC children and youth that are overweight or at-risk for becoming overweight.
These objectives were published in the NC HWI Plan Moving Our Children Toward a Healthy Weight: Finding the Will and the Way during 2002. They were also incorporated into the Physical Activity and Nutrition (PAN) Branch's successful proposal to CDC-DNPA for Basic Implementation funding for physical activity, nutrition and overweight prevention. The NC HDSP Program will continue to collaborate with HWI and PAN and their many partners in communities, schools, worksites, health care, and the Faith Community to achieve the objectives related to healthy weight.
The lifestyle issues discussed in the Prevention chapter (physical inactivity and poor nutrition) are critical in the management of overweight and obesity. Refer to these sections for additional strategies.
Support the BASIC Preventive Benefits Initiative, including components for the management of overweight. (Lead Agency NCPP)
Support the Winner’s Circle Healthy Dining Program in restaurants and schools and distribute the Winner’s Circle Healthy Eating food and beverage list.
Promote awareness of an overweight epidemic and availability of high quality existing community resources for weight control in NC.
Sample Strategies:
Public Awareness for consumers
- Support the Eat Smart, Move More North Carolina initiative
- Promote increased awareness of the obesity epidemic and the important health implications through a variety of methods, including social marketing campaigns, physician resources for patients, and public health outreach programs.
Professional support:
- Promote the Starting the Conversation tools on nutrition and physical activity for physicians to discuss healthy weight practices and physical activity with their patients. (Lead Agency NCPP)
- Develop a new Starting the Conversation tool for overweight/obesity.
- Promote the commercially available weight control programs that are approved by the NC Board of Dietetics and Nutrition.
- Encourage commercial fitness centers to require relevant staff members to be certified as Lifestyle and Weight Management Counselors (LWMC), a program through the American Council on Exercise (ACE).
- Continue to partner with the Prevention Research Center at UNC for work-site obesity prevention research and youth obesity research.
Responsible Parties and Partnering Organizations: PAN Branch, NC DPH, Prevention Research Center, UNC Chapel Hill, NCPP, Health and Wellness Trust Fund Commission.
Last Updated 01/05/09
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