Wisconsin's Response to Obesity

The 10 Steps to Breastfeeding-Friendly Child Care Centers is a resource kit that focuses on strategies to offset the breastfeeding challenges that families using child care typically encounter.
Farm to School is an innovative approach to address childhood obesity by increasing a school system’s access to local foods while providing local farmers and other food businesses with marketing opportunities.
“Got Dirt?” Garden Initiative - The health goal of this initiative is to encourage consumption of fruits and vegetables by improving access to and consumption of fresh produce and by helping youth cultivate gardening skills as they tend to their own fruit and vegetable gardens.

Wisconsin

Among Wisconsin's adults age 18 and over ¹

Among Wisconsin’s adolescents in grades 9 through 12 ²

Among Wisconsin's children aged 2 years to less than 5 years ³

CDC Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System: Prevalence and Trend Data – Overweight and Obesity, U.S. Obesity Trends, Trends by State 2010. Available online at http://www.cdc.gov/brfss/
CDC, Division of Adolescent and School Health. The 2009 Youth Risk Behavior Survey. Available online at http://www.cdc.gov/HealthyYouth/yrbs/index.htm
CDC, Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity. 2010 Pediatric Nutrition Surveillance System. Available online at http://www.cdc.gov/pednss/pednss_tables/
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