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OBJECTIVES:We conducted a midpoint review of The California Endowment's Healthy Eating, Active Communities (HEAC) program, which works in 6 low-income California communities to prevent childhood obesity by changing children's environments. The HEAC program conducts interventions in 5 key childhood environments: schools, after-school programs, neighborhoods, health care, and marketing and advertising. METHODS:We measured changes in foods and beverages sold at schools and in neighborhoods in HEAC sites; changes in school and after-school physical activity programming and equipment; individual-level changes in children's attitudes and behaviors related to food and physical activity; and HEAC-related awareness and engagement on the part of community members, stakeholders, and policymakers. RESULTS:Children's environments changed to promote healthier lifestyles across a wide range of domains in all 5 key childhood environments for all 6 HEAC communities. Children in HEAC communities are also engaging in more healthy behaviors than they were before the program's implementation. CONCLUSIONS:HEAC sites successfully changed children's food and physical activity environments, making a healthy lifestyle a more viable option for low-income children and their families.
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Am J Public Healthjournal_title
American journal of public healthauthors
Samuels SE,Craypo L,Boyle M,Crawford PB,Yancey A,Flores Gdoi
10.2105/AJPH.2010.192781subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2010-11-01 00:00:00pages
2114-23issue
11eissn
0090-0036issn
1541-0048pii
AJPH.2010.192781journal_volume
100pub_type
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