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Today marked the day of our office’s annual cookie exchange. Shortbread, pecan sandies, and thumbprint cookies piped with chocolate hazelnut or eggnog filling; it’s not a gathering for counting calories, but for counting blessings and good friends to share it with, year after year.
Similiar holiday traditions no doubt are practiced in your schools and offices … or maybe not, as recent policies have put focus on health promotion and stemming childhood obesity.
Many of you already know and may have been part of creating wellness policies for your district a few years back, a requirement built into the 2004 Child Nutrition and WIC Reauthorization Act.
Other than developing physical activity and nutrition goals, in concert with the public, school systems were given wide lattitude on how to implement and ultimately illustrate wellness in their community.
For a primer, check out our archives for our special report “Getting to Wellness.”
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