Eat Well and Keep Moving

Eat Well & Keep Moving is an interdisciplinary, elementary school
program designed to promote healthful eating and physical activity
in schools, home, and communities.

How does Eat Well & Keep Moving work?

The program offers a supportive school environment to promote
nutrition and physical activity that includes classroom lessons,
promotion campaigns on nutrition and physical activity, enhancement
in physical education, approaches linked to food service, staff wellness,
and parent involvement. Classroom lessons are integrated into core
subject areas (math, language arts, social studies and science) using
the skills of classroom teachers.

Eat Well & Keep Moving uses existing school resources, requires no
extra staff, builds on existing health curriculum, and costs little to
implement.

School administrators can pick and choose from the comprehensive
protocol to enhance their existing programs in nutrition and physical
activity.

How effective is Eat Well & Keep Moving?

In a field trial in Baltimore, Eat Well & Keep Moving was found to:

• Decrease the percent of total calories from fat and saturated
  fat consumed by student
• Increase fruit and vegetable consumption
• Reduce TV viewing time
• Increase students’ knowledge of nutrition and healthy
  activities
  

Eat Well & Keep Moving was successfully implemented in public
schools, and was well liked by principals, teachers, food service
staff, parents, and students.

Eat Well & Keep Moving received the United States Department
of Agriculture Promising Practice Award in 1997 and the Dannon
Award for Excellence in Community Nutrition for 2000.

These materials have been measured for readability by National Cancer
Institute (NCI) and Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). Eat Well & Keep Moving is a tested intervention.

Principal Investigator: Lilian Cheung, ScD, RD and Steven Gortmaker, PhD
Funder: Department of Education - PEP Grant; Walton Foundation