Making the Healthy Choice the Easy Choice

South Carolina Facts

One-half of all African American children in rural areas of South Carolina are overweight or obese.
  • SCHA Working to Create a Culture of Worksite Health

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    SCHA Working to Create a Culture of Worksite Health

    Working Well initiative in all SC hospitals to assess, implement and maintain evidence-based policies designed around tobacco, nutrition, and physical activity to create an worksite environment supportive of healthy behaviors. Today 42 hospitals, affecting 65,000 employees, have completed the WorkHealthy America assessment and are working to make the healthy choice the easy choice for their employees.

  • School Gardens Grow Student Success

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    School Gardens Grow Student Success

    The Okatie garden produces a variety of vegetable throughout the year including: green beans, tomatoes, squash, zucchini, broccoli, greens, and potatoes. The school has special events to highlight what they are growing such as broccoli day, collards and corn bread day, eat a peach day, and a taste of the garden event.

  • Complete Streets in Anderson, SC

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    Complete Streets in Anderson, SC

    Both the City and County of Anderson passed Complete Streets Resolutions that call for city and county staff to "plan for, design, construct, and operate all new transportation improvement projects to provide appropriate accommodation for pedestrians, bicyclists, transit riders, and persons of all abilities."

  • Zest Quest – Healthy Eating from the Inside Out

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    Zest Quest – Healthy Eating from the Inside Out

    Making the connection at an early age to the importance of a healthy lifestyle may prevent future health problems. The challenge for Zest Quest has been in increasing the skill level of children when they are not in school.

  • The MUSC StairWELL Project: Employees Climbing to Higher Health Habits

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    The MUSC StairWELL Project: Employees Climbing to Higher Health Habits

    Using a model from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Health 1st, MUSC's Employee Wellness Program conceived the StairWELL Project to encourage employees to use stairs instead of elevators.

  • Broccoli At WIC Class!

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    Broccoli At WIC Class!

    With a $4000 grant from the Eat Smart, Move More Coalition, Region 6 created a program that focused on good nutrition, childhood obesity, and increasing activity in everyday lives.

  • Walking groups help Sumter’s African-Americans get active for better health

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    Walking groups help Sumter’s African-Americans get active for better health

    African-American residents in Sumter are more likely than white residents to be impacted by chronic diseases, like heart disease, diabetes and cancer—with up to eight times higher death rates, depending on the disease.

  • Kershaw County Comes Together to Make the Healthy Choice the Easy Choice

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    Kershaw County Comes Together to Make the Healthy Choice the Easy Choice

    Staff at KershawHealth’s Health Resource Center and DHEC – Region 4 put their heads together and developed a plan to bring different community stakeholders together and get to the bottom of the problem.

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    • USDA Unveils Historic Improvements to Meals Served in America’s Schools

      FAIRFAX, Va., Jan. 25. 2012 – First Lady Michelle Obama and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today unveiled new standards for school meals that will result in healthier meals for kids across the nation. The new meal requirements will raise standards for the first time in more than fifteen years and improve the health and nutrition of nearly 32 million kids that participate in school meal programs every school day. The healthier meal requirements are a key component of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act, which was championed by the First Lady as part of her Let’s Move! campaign and signed into law by President Obama.

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    • Demystifying Evaluation! Webinar

      Demystifying evaluation! Make it plain, make it simple, make it useful, and make it happen! This Eat Smart, Move More SC Webinar hosted by Kristian Gordon, MPH, Evaluation Coordinator, SC DHEC, demystifys evaluation, shows you how you can use it, and ways that South Carolina is using evaluation to keep account of what is occurring to address nutrition, physical activity, and obesity prevention.

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    • The Palmetto Cycling Coalition, AARP South Carolina and Eat Smart Move More South Carolina are moving forward with plans to advance complete streets in South Carolina. In keeping with this goal, the three statewide organizations partnered to offer a complete streets workshop in Columbia on November 16, 2011. This workshop, suited for engineers, planners, public [...]

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    • Greer Memorial Hospital Recognized as a 2011 Mother-Friendly Employer

      The South Carolina Breastfeeding Coalition (Coalition) promotes, protects and supports breastfeeding as the superior form of nutrition and nurture for infants and young children. Breastfeeding is the gold standard of infant feeding due to multiple health benefits to mother and baby. This method of feeding is endorsed by many professional groups including The World Health [...]

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    Implement obesity prevention programs and strategies where you live, learn, work, and play.

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    These 7 tips will help you eat smart and move more and are a valuable resource to help you have a happier, healthier family.

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