What role is SBM playing in the fight against obesity for students within the local school districts?
SBM has established a program using their Bus-Cal as the vehicle to promote healthy nutrition and physical activity. The positive messages located inside the bus furnish student awareness of the epidemic and prevention strategies and promoting products and services by the paid sponsors. Obesity is the second leading cause of preventable, premature death — second only to tobacco use. In fact, a recent study published in The New England Journal of Medicine indicates that one out four children who are overweight have early signs of type 2 diabetes — until recently a type seen only in adults. The SBM program provides a format to inform the students the lack of physical activities and healthy nutrition in their life. Through the schools, communities, parents and others all working together the Bus-Cal program will promote life style changes within the school policy environmental to encourage healthy living through healthy nutrition and physical activity.
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