Students, parents and school staff from Detroit's Henry Ford Academy: School for Creative Studies (HFA:SCS) sampled healthy dishes made from HFA:SCS garden produce, learned about how the school garden is used in the classroom, and viewed a presentation about the 2013 garden season.
Students gathered at Levagood Park in Dearborn at 7:30 a.m. on October 2nd and walked to the school with teachers, the Vice Principal and the Principal. About 50 students participated with the group, and others walked on their own.
PHS research shows that while some habits were the same for all overweight and obese children, there are some gender differences in the habits influencing body weight. CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE
A recent partnership with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan (BCBSM will bring PHS to 20 more middle schools over the next three years through the Building Healthy Communities program. READ THE PRESS RELEASE
Project Healthy Schools (PHS) provides a school-based
program to reduce childhood obesity and its long-term health risks. Focusing primarily on sixth grade students, PHS aims to
stem the tide of this epidemic by:
Healthy youth who continue to practice healthy lifestyles will grow into healthy adults with fewer risk factors for cardiovascular disease, diabetes and other chronic illness. Project Healthy Schools is one of the few school-based programs that have demonstrated significant improvements in both health behavior and cardiovascular risk factors, such as reductions in:
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