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Children’s Health
PATH has worked with the Horizon Foundation, and other concerned citizen groups to reduce health risks to our children through a campaign to reduce access to unhealthy, sugary drinks and snacks, while suggesting and promoting access to healthy alternatives, provide healthy breakfasts for all children, and increase exercise time in our schools.
In the News
Changes to Howard's school wellness policy largely applauded
When the revised health and wellness policy for Howard County schools was up for discussion last spring, it was roundly criticized for not going far enough in encouraging students' health.
A year later and after a delayed vote, phased implementation and several additional changes, that policy was largely applauded by the public Thursday, March 13 at the Board of Education.
"I'm delighted to see the excellent progress made," said Barbara Wasserman, a member of the original committee tasked to revise the policy; but she added there were still a few minor changes to be made.
A new kind of cola war
Happiness doesn't come in a red can. Obesity does.
That's the tag line from a commercial that will begin airing soon in the Baltimore area, and it's a not-so-subtle attack on Coca-Cola mounted by a group of local health advocates including Howard County's Horizon Foundation, the Maryland State Medical Society (MedChi), the American Heart Association and People Acting Together in Howard (PATH).
Critics demand a better health and wellness policy for Howard
As a Columbia pediatrician, Henri Merrick regularly sees young patients who are significantly overweight. It's a trend she started noticing several years ago, and the weights of school-aged children began to cause her great concern.
So three years ago, she started a diet program at her practice. If a child had a body mass index in the 84th percentile, she put them on a diet: no sugar, lots of water and healthier food
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