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Wednesday, April 01, 2009

British County Distributes Healthy Living DVD

Somerset County (Great Britain) is making an educational DVD available to schools, parents, and health professionals who want practical information on fighting childhood obesity.
"The 15-minute film shows ways in which children, their families and schools have worked together to promote healthy weight and wellbeing. Healthy schools coordinator Clare Laker said: 'It highlights that being overweight or obese causes many problems for children.'"
The DVD cost about $6,800 to produce and was funded through the county council and the Somerset Healthy School Programme. Source: Somerset Standard

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Labels: UK, schools, parents

Posted By: Aspen Education Group