City of Berkeley Public Health Nutrition Peer Programs JoAnn Evangelista, MPH, Program Manager Chronic Disease Prevention Program

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City of Berkeley Public Health Nutrition Peer Programs JoAnn Evangelista, MPH, Program Manager Chronic Disease Prevention Program

Healthy Vibe! B-Tech afterschool group dedicated to learning and spreading the word about healthy living.

Healthy Vibe Peers (B-Tech Alternative HS) Trained as peer educators for their school (1x/week mtgs), part of the afterschool programs Provide nutrition presentations to classes, nutrition-related tabling activities Desire by staff and students to learn about what’s happening in their environment

Joining forces with Change Youth Advisors Group

Health Smart! Peers (Middle School) Trained as peer educators for their school (1x/week mtgs), part of the afterschool programs Provide presentations to classes, tabling activities Working with nearby store to limit junk food youth purchase Learning about their community Longfellow MS Garden

“Being healthy is eating right and feeding my body good food, leaving junk food alone.” Seeing what’s in their community:

“Living a long life, staying away from trouble, and drinking healthy drinks.”

“I LOVE my junk food! I don’t think I’ll EVER stop eating it.” (later that evening, as reported by her parent the next day): “I think I eat too much junk…AND I watch too much TV. For a month, I will watch 30 minutes less of TV each week…AND I’ll eat less junk. Can I have an egg for breakfast tomorrow?”

Special sauce…...melted cheese… toasted sesame seed bun

What’s in YOUR bag?

Tools for Fast Food sessions: “Have It Your Way Fast Food” – JUMP START Teens Curriculum (Project LEAN) Visually see how much fat is in a typical fast food meal Learn ways to cut fat in their fast food; Fast Food Contract “What’s In Your Bag?” – Alameda County PH Dept, Nutrition Services Nutrition facts for popular fast food breakfast and lunch Build a healthier lifestyle, make healthier choices Media-Smart Youth, workshop curriculum for yr olds (National Institute of Child Health and Human Development) 10 sessions, builds media analysis, connections between understanding media and health, nutrition, physical activity, and ways to make healthy choices

Fast food facts from the Super Size Me Web site Super Size Me Each day, 1 in 4 Americans visits a fast food restaurantThe average child sees 10,000 TV advertisements per year Only seven items on McDonald's entire menu contain no sugar McDonald's distributes more toys per year than Toys-R-Us Diabetes will cut years off your life. " The World Health Organization has declared obesity a global epidemic Eating fast food may be dangerous to your health McDonald's operates more than 30,000 restaurants in more then 100 countries on 6 continents Before most children can speak they can recognize McDonald's 40 percent of American meals are eaten outside the home You would have to walk for seven hours straight to burn off a Super Sized Coke, fry and Big Mac 60 percent of all Americans are either overweight or obese One in every three children born in the year 2000 will develop diabetes in their lifetime

What does being healthy mean to you? “Exercise food that tastes good and is good for you staying fit Going to the doctor”