Overweight Preschoolers at Risk

07/24/2009

Overweight Preschoolers at Risk

Sleep faster. We need the pillows.
Yiddish Proverb

"Researchers studying more than 3,000 children 3 to 6 years old found that those with large waist circumferences and high body mass indexes (BMIs) were more likely to show early signs of cardiovascular risk," reports Preschool Matters, the newsletter of the National Institute for Early Education Research (April 2009). The report concluded...

"Sarah Messiah, a University of Miami researcher who analyzed the data from National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, said the new findings are worrisome in light of the fact that about one quarter of U.S. children aged 2 to 5 are overweight.... [T]he findings show that the battle against obesity needs to begin in early childhood."'

Great Resources on Environments at Exchange

One obvious cure for early childhood obesity is to get children more active outdoors.

Exchange has a wide variety of resources on environments that can be purchased separately or altogether at a discounted price in our Environments Tool Kit. Exchange environmental resources in the kit include...

Books:

Caring Spaces, Learning Places: Children's Environments That Work
Natural Playscapes: Creating Outdoor Play Environments for the Soul
Learning With Nature Idea Book: Creating Nurturing Outdoor Spaces for Children

Beginning Workshop Units:

Environments for Special Needs
Environments
Nature and Young Children
Outdoor Environments
Space
Science, Using the Outdoors
Learning Materials

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