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Healthy Weight Week is a time to celebrate healthy lifestyles that last a lifetime and prevent eating and weight problems. Eat well, live actively, and feel good about yourself and others. It's a welcome change from the dieting and bingeing that typically begin the New Year!
Healthy Weight Week is a time to stop dieting and get on with living our lives in healthy ways, feeling good about ourselves and others...a time to say, I'm okay, you're okay. Our cultural obsession with dieting and extreme thinness is causing painful and tragic problems, especially for women and children. Four-year-olds are asking, Mommie, am I too fat? Six-year-olds have full-blown eating disorders. As many as 80 percent of 10-year-old girls are restricting food and feeling guilty when they eat, and half of teen girls are deficient in many essential nutrients, while one-fourth are seriously undernourished. Two-thirds of pregnant teenagers have deficient diets. Helping young people to eat well, live actively, and feel good about themselves and others is sound health policy and preventive of these problems. Healthy Weight Week features two sets of awards: the annual Slim Chance Awards, for the worst diet products of the year; and Healthy Weight Awards for businesses that honor size diversity. For more information, handouts and posters that can be printed off this web site for educational purposes, see below. Handouts: Several handouts available at this website. Also use handouts on healthy nutrition, physical activity, and positive body image. (Avoid handouts that focus on so-called ideal weight, self-defeating weight loss, and dieting or food restraint.) Bulletin boards: Posters on bulletin boards; handouts in health centers and public places. Print media: Write articles for newspapers, magazines, professional newsletters and health publications about Healthy Weight Week and how to make healthy choices in today is world. (News Release on this page may be used and localized.) Internet: Promote Healthy Weight Week to your Internet contacts on list servers, chat groups, and address lists. For more information see:
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| Sponsored by the Army National Guard, and the Office of the Chief, Army Reserve. Copyright 2011 |
Traditionally people begin a diet the first week in January, break that diet the second week, and by the third week are ready to live in healthier ways and feel good about themselves again. They can find this by celebrating Healthy Weight Week and healthy lifestyles for everyone. Healthy Weight Week helps people move ahead to health-promoting habits they can live with the rest of their lives. Sound habits prevent eating and weight problems instead of intensifying them.