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Obesity is on the rise. But CATCH (Coordinated Approach to Child Health) is poised to support health, wellness and obesity-prevention efforts for children, now and for the rest of their lives. Don’t forget: CATCH has been cited as the “most cost effective program to reduce child obesity.”

The 2011 National Prevention Strategy includes a comprehensive focus on increasing obesity-prevention efforts in our communities. For children, these strategies include evidence-based recommendations for healthy eating and active living.

CATCH is an ideal fit for your community’s efforts. Its primary goal is to prevent chronic disease through a coordinated approach to health. CATCH promotes moderate to vigorous physical activity, healthy eating behaviors and tobacco abstention.

Over 20 years of research and development have made CATCH a model program – replicated in over 8,500 schools and communities. State and County Health Departments across the country are using CATCH to make a lasting impact on the health of children and their families.

CATCH is an evidence-based, National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded program proven to:

• Increase Physical Activity
• Improve Student Nutrition Habits
• Reduce Sodium and Saturated Fats in School Lunches
• Sustain Student Health Behaviors at Least Three Years Post Intervention
• Decrease Obesity Rates

 

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CATCH succeeded in producing lasting changes in physical activity behaviors both in an out of school. Students were more physically active during physical education classes, and participated in moderate to vigorous physical activity for at least 50% of class time.

Click Here to Read an Abstract from The Journal of the American Medical Association

CATCH is proven to produce lasting changes in dietary behaviors, as well as reduce amounts of sodium and saturated fats in school cafeteria lunches. In addition, the CATCH Go, Slow, Whoa concept helps people recognize and make healthy food and beverage choices.

Click Here to Read an Abstract from The Journal of the American Medical Association

CATCH successfully slowed the epidemic increase of obesity risk for children exposed to it. The study “Prevention of the Epidemic Increase in Child Risk of Overweight in Low-Income Schools: The El Paso Coordinated Approach to Child Health” is the first research demonstrating that CATCH works to halt the increase of obesity amongst youth.

Click Here to Read the El Paso CATCH Study

CATCH is proven to help sustain student health-related behaviors. Students who had participated in CATCH as 5th graders were studied again as 8th graders. Without any continued CATCH intervention, the CATCH students maintained lower fat intakes and higher levels of physical activity compared to students who had not participated in CATCH.

Click Here to Read the Study: Three-Year Maintenance of Improved Diet and Physical Activity

CATCH Go for Health Classroom Curriculum includes tobacco prevention tools, including facts about chewing and smoking tobacco.

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