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Healthy Eating and Active Living Collaborative

What is Healthy Weight?

Healthy Eating and Active Living Collaborative

The Healthy Eating and Active Living Collaborative (HEAL) is a group of local organizations working together to make eating well and being active an easier choice for all Rhode Islanders. HEAL is charged with putting Rhode Island’s Plan for Healthy Eating and Active Living into action. The Initiative for a Healthy Weight currently manages HEAL.

What do we do?

The Healthy Eating and Active Living Collaborative identifies, develops, implements and promotes evidence-based initiatives that will move Rhode Island closer to meeting the objectives in the  Plan. Most of this work is done by workgroups, who regularly identify priorities for action.

How Can My Organization Get Involved?

Would your organization like to get involved in putting these priorities into action? Take the HEAL Pledge and join a workgroup!

Upcoming Events

News

From the Yale Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity

Aug 05, 2009
Obesity Not A Good Predictor of High Cholesterol in Children
National data on children's weight status and cholesterol levels found that using body mass index to find children with high cholesterol did not work well. Using weight alone as a decider on whether to screen for cholesterol would miss about 50% of children who had high cholesterol and as many as 30% of kids would have an unneeded test, according to research published in the Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine.
Aug 04, 2009
Menu Labeling Bill Spawns Industry Fight
A restaurant trade group is pushing a federal bill that would require large chains to disclose the calorie counts of meals on the menu. Restaurant chains like KFC and Dominos argue the calorie-labeling requirement should include individual eateries and small chains as well.
Aug 04, 2009
CDC Says Act Locally to Tackle Obesity
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued a report including recommendations to help tackle obesity in the United States, with strategies to increase availability of healthier foods. The report is intended to help communities assess policy and instigate changes on a local level to deal with the problem.

Funding Opportunities

KaBOOM! is looking for local partners to create plays paces in Warwick! KaBOOM! will cover most, but not all of the cost of building the play space.