HEALTHY PRACTICES:

NUTRITION, PHYSICAL
ACTIVITY, AND COMMUNITY
AND FAMILY PARTICIPATION
University of Colorado System

1 SCHOOL NUTRITION
Good nutrition is associated with better learning
outcomes, overall health, and helps ensure that
students are able to reach their potential.

2 HABITS
A path to good nutrition starts young. Kids who
develop healthy eating habits will take those with
them as they age. Healthy young eaters make
healthy adult eaters and it's easier to make a good
habit than it is to wreck a bad habit

3 PHYSICAL EDUCATION
Physical education classes, as they're offered in
schools, are designed to promote physical fitness,
confidence, social skills, teamwork and problem
solving. While students are learning movement
mastery or perfecting a skill.

4 BENEFITS
Increased participation in physical activity
is directly related to increasing overall health
benefits. Healthy students are better learners
and healthy active kids become healthy active
adults, with a reduced risk of Type 2 diabetes and
cardiovascular disease

5 MOVEMENT
When kids start moving at an early age, they
naturally develop movement skills. We refer to this
as physical literacy. These are skills such as
running, hopping, jumping, skipping. With the
increase of sedentary behavior, we see kids
struggling to develop these skills.

6 ATTENDANCE
The results of chronic absence early on in a school
career are first seen in students falling behind in
school. Once a student falls behind, it becomes
increasingly harder for them to catch
up. Individual chronic absences can also affect the
whole classroom as teachers try to help students
catch up.

CHOO HONG RUI RAYSON