Alliance for a Healthier Generation Hopes To Figh Childhood Obesity
Seattle – A new coalition of insurance groups and health groups hopes to combat childhood obesity.
Led by former President Bill Clinton, The Alliance for a Healthier Generation, will provide four visits to a dietitian and four visits to a doctor to help parents and children become educated on nutrition and exercise.
“They will make them aware that this benefit is now offered,” said Clinton. “And they will also provide information about how, even in a time when health care costs are somewhere between a problem and a nightmare for people, that this can actually be cost-effective for them by making their workers more productive.”
The program hopes to have 1-million children inrolled in the program the first year and as many as 6-million children involved in the next three years.
Insurance provides already on board include, Aetna and Wellpoint, BlueCross BlueShield of North Carolina and BlueCross BlueShield of Massachusetts.
Private companies have also signed on to the initiative including PepsiCo, Owens Corning and Paychex.
The Alliance for a Healthier Generation is a joint effort by the American Heart Association and the William J. Clinton Foundation.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, over the past three decades the childhood obesity rate has more than doubled for preschool children aged 2-5 years and adolescents aged 12-19 years, and it has more than tripled for children aged 6-11 years.
In my view, to avoid the meat addiction like oil may be one of the best options for health. More Fruits can be considered as alternative., I think.