Why This Is Your Life!?
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- Young people desperately need
it! Arm adolescents NOW with the tools they
need to counter the alarming rates of obesity (and its harmful health consequences), eating disorders,
sedentary lifestyles, and tobacco use so that they can build healthy
habits to last a healthy lifetime!
- It Works! It’s an evidence-based
program with proven results (by the CDC!) showing dramatic improvements
in student knowledge, attitudes, and behavior regarding nutrition,
physical activity, and health!
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- Meet
national and state standards! A corresponding complete set of
follow-up materials helps teachers easily integrate health and nutrition
into core subject areas and meets the “National Health Education Standards for
Achieving Health Literacy.”
- Make your job easier…and a lot
more fun! This Is Your Life! (TIYL) magically transforms even the most disengaged
kids into students with inquiring minds, asking for more health education!
- Save
Time! Use our turn-key package of supplementary curriculum
materials—dynamic and reproducible activity sheets, lesson plans,
assessments, backgrounders, and handout packets for everyone involved—students, teachers, parents, health and foodservice staff,
and even the press!
- Evaluation,
Evaluation, Evaluation! Use our professionally designed, validated
student health assessment and evaluation instrument to help meet your
grant and programmatic needs.
- It’s
Fun! Students and teachers love TIYL’s rib-tickling humor
and thought-provoking drama! They’re laughing so hard, they
don’t realize how much they are learning!
- There’s
Funding! Contact us to find out how easy it is to bring a TIYL
program to your school or setting. [See funding ideas]
Alarming Statistics on Children's Health
- Obesity has become the nation’s number one health epidemic, affecting one out of every five children; this rate has tripled in the last 20 years!
- Type 2 diabetes, once considered a disease of adults, has doubled among children and tripled among teens in the last decade.
- On the other extreme, eating disorders are at an all time high. By fourth grade, two thirds of the nation’s girls have reportedly gone on a diet because they think they are “fat”.
- Less than 1% of today’s children are meeting their nutritional requirements; the average child gets over 50% of their calories from fat and sugar!
- Less than half of the nation’s youth reportedly engage in regular physical activity.
- The average child sees over 40,000 TV commercials with over 80% of food ads promoting junk foods!
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