Healthy Youth
As a health care professional and father I am acutely aware of the challenges in this country concerning childhood obesity. While advancement in technology increase, the amount of time our children spend actively engaging in physical activity continues to decline. Pairing healthy meal choices, snacks and exercise can help ensure your children are taking part in a healthy life style that will follow them through life.
Lynchburg City and Amherst County schools already use their resources to partner with organizations promoting healthy lifestyles and focus on providing healthy nutrition standards for your children (see some of the links below). I applaud these efforts made by our local public schools and hope we can continue these behaviors and continue to find ways to improve our children’s healthy options.
Local Links:
- Visit your local YMCA Healthy Kids Program
- Each spring, the YMCA strives to build community awareness of physical inactivity and obesity among youth throughout the country. YMCA Healthy Kids Day is a free, fun-filled day of activities designated to promote healthy kids and families in spirit, mind, and body.
- Lynchburg: See What Your Kids are Eating in School
- Lynchburg City Schools provide a monthly menu on their website of what your kids are eating day-to-day. Lynchburg City Schools strive to provide healthy and appetizing lunches to your children.
- Amherst: See What Your Kids are Eating in School
- Amherst County provides nutritional information and choices on their website. See what your kids are eating day-to-day as Amherst County strives to provide healthy and appetizing lunches to your children.
- MyNutrikids.com
- Online resource for parents and schools to make payments, submit nutritional lunch suggestions and learn about the healthy choices available to your children in your public schools.
- Lynchburg Grows
- Lynchburg Grows is an urban farm that takes a hands-in-the-dirt approach to teaching others how sustainable food production promotes a healthy planet.
- Surgeon General’s 2010 Guide to a Healthy and Fit Nation
- Visit the Surgeon General’s recommendations and plans to prevent childhood obesity in our nation.
- How Healthy is Virginia?
- Visit healthyamerica.org to see where Virginia stands in the nation’s health ratings in numerous different topics.
Calculate Your Child’s BMI (Body Mass Index)
What BMI means?
Please click on an image and use the charts below to see what weight category (underweirght, normal, overweight, or obese) your girl or boy falls into.
