Activity Works Pilot at North Bellmore Schools May Become Model for National Program
Rep. Carolyn McCarthy visits Newbridge Road School to see children engaged in unique education-plus-exercise program.
Last spring, during a hearing on promoting healthy habits among children before the House Healthy Families and Communities Subcommittee she chairs, Rep. Carolyn McCarthy, D-New York, learned about a unique education-plus-exercise program called Activity Works being piloted in New York. Yesterday, McCarthy visited Newbridge Road School to see the Activity Works program in action. "My committee has been pushing for physical activity as part of overall childhood nutrition, anti-obesity policy-making," McCarthy said, adding that since First Lady Michele Obama has taken up the cause, it has received greater national attention. Nancy Copperman, director, Public Health Initiatives, Office of Community Health and Public Policy at North Shore-…
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