Let’s Go! 5210 Goes After School
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Boys and Girls Club of Southern Maine
Boys and Girls Clubs of Southern Maine understands the significant role that their after school environment can play in developing positive health behaviors in youth. In recent months they decided to take this role one step further and developed a set of nutrition guidelines that apply to food served / offered at the club and what is sold the vending machines.
Nutrition Guidelines are important because they provide a framework for long-lasting, sustainable change. They also help the children gain a greater understanding of healthful eating habits, expose them to a variety of healthful foods that they may otherwise not eat, and improve children’s as well as staffs’ diets by including nutrient-rich foods.
Let’s Go! and Healthy Portland, a local Healthy Maine Partnership and a program of the City of Portland’s Health & Human Service Department, Public Health Division, would like to congratulate the staff and youth of Boys and Girls Clubs of Southern Maine for raising and educating a healthier generation of children! The nutrition guidelines that you have developed provide a framework for long-lasting, sustainable change that will give youth in your clubs healthier choices. Keep up the good work! Click here to view the guidelines in full.
Courtney Styles and Jen Pierce sample some of the great healthy options available.
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