Nutrition grants for schools in Western Pennsylvania

[Guest guest]

Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield Offers Challenge for

Healthier Schools Grant Program in Western

Pennsylvania

 

Deadline: June 1, 2003

 

As part of its ongoing work to address the problem of

overweight and inactive children, Highmark Blue Cross

Blue Shield is offering $125,000 in grants through its

Challenge for Healthier Schools. The challenge to

schools

is to submit an innovative program idea dealing with

increased physical activity and/or nutrition

education.

The most promising plans will win a cash grant to be

used

to implement the program at the beginning of either

the

2003-04 or 2004-05 school year.

 

The initiative is designed to encourage collaborative

efforts among teachers, students, and parents to

create

innovative approaches to student wellness. To that

end,

Highmark will award nine cash grants totaling

$125,000:

four $10,000 cash awards for elementary schools; three

$15,000 cash awards for middle schools; and two

$20,000

cash awards for high schools.

 

To be eligible for a grant, the school must be located

within on of the twenty-nine counties of Western Penn-

sylvania and become a Caring Team School through the

Western Pennsylvania Caring Foundation

( http://www.wpacaringfoundation.com/ ). The Caring

Team

program involves students in raising funds to provide

healthcare coverage for children and families in their

own school district and communities.

 

Visit the Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield Web site to

download program guidelines and forms.

 

RFP Link:

http://www.highmark.com/hmk/comm/healthyschools.jsp

 

For additional RFPs in Health, visit:

http://www.fdncenter.org/pnd/rfp/cat_health.jhtml

 

--

Fenris Wolf

 

RSPCA-Animadversion

 

http://www.webtribe.net/a/animadversion/animadversion.htm

[Guest guest]

I must say I am very dubious about the " nutrition " being

preached in the grants mentioned in the first post on this thread.

I saw no mention on the website link in the original post indicating

just what they consider to be a healthy diet. I am concerned that

it is just another ploy to get schools to preach the food pyramid &

other long-term toxic diets based on the mistaken notion that one

should eat lots of grains.

 

Note the tone of befuddlement in the clip below written by

supposed experts whose dietary advice is having a negative impact on

obesity, yet they keep preaching the same bad advice.

 

Alobar

 

 

 

Why Are so Many Toddlers Obese?

 

More than 60 percent of Americans are overweight or obese. Many U.S.

toddlers are also obese and are even showing signs of diabetes and

other diseases associated with obesity, according to researchers.

 

Moreover, when obese children were sent to specialists they still did

not achieve healthier weights.

 

Researchers examined the medical records of 385 children, most of

whom were already obese, defined as being in the 85th percentile for

weight. The children were seen by endocrinologists, or hormone

specialists, between 1984 and 2002.

 

Although the parents were educated on proper diet and exercise for

their children as well as advised to meet with a dietician, after two

years the children weighed, on average, even more than before.

 

According to researchers, it is clear that referral to pediatric

endocrinologists and dieticians is not effective in treating

childhood obesity. Instead, they suggest a weight-loss program that

includes the children, parents and the school system.

 

The children in the study, some as young as 4 years old, also had

high insulin levels, which can lead to type 2 diabetes, and 13

percent of 147 children tested had abnormal liver function tests,

according to researchers. Such tests indicate a common condition with

obesity known as fatty liver, which can lead to cirrhosis.

 

People who are obese or overweight have an increased risk of

diabetes, heart disease and certain cancers.

 

Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting in Seattle May 4, 2003

 

http://www.mercola.com/2003/may/21/obese_toddlers.htm

 

 

 

 

 

 

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" Fenris Wolf " <Fenris

 

Saturday, May 17, 2003 8:34 AM

Nutrition grants for schools in Western

Pennsylvania

 

 

> Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield Offers Challenge for

> Healthier Schools Grant Program in Western

> Pennsylvania

>

> Deadline: June 1, 2003

>

> As part of its ongoing work to address the problem of

> overweight and inactive children, Highmark Blue Cross

> Blue Shield is offering $125,000 in grants through its

> Challenge for Healthier Schools. The challenge to

> schools

> is to submit an innovative program idea dealing with

> increased physical activity and/or nutrition

> education.

> The most promising plans will win a cash grant to be

> used

> to implement the program at the beginning of either

> the

> 2003-04 or 2004-05 school year.

>

> The initiative is designed to encourage collaborative

> efforts among teachers, students, and parents to

> create

> innovative approaches to student wellness. To that

> end,

> Highmark will award nine cash grants totaling

> $125,000:

> four $10,000 cash awards for elementary schools; three

> $15,000 cash awards for middle schools; and two

> $20,000

> cash awards for high schools.

>

> To be eligible for a grant, the school must be located

> within on of the twenty-nine counties of Western Penn-

> sylvania and become a Caring Team School through the

> Western Pennsylvania Caring Foundation

> ( http://www.wpacaringfoundation.com/ ). The Caring

> Team

> program involves students in raising funds to provide

> healthcare coverage for children and families in their

> own school district and communities.

>

> Visit the Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield Web site to

> download program guidelines and forms.

>

> RFP Link:

> http://www.highmark.com/hmk/comm/healthyschools.jsp

>

> For additional RFPs in Health, visit:

> http://www.fdncenter.org/pnd/rfp/cat_health.jhtml

>

> --

> Fenris Wolf

>

> RSPCA-Animadversion

>

> http://www.webtribe.net/a/animadversion/animadversion.htm

>

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