Guidelines for comprehensive programs to promote healthy eating and physical activity

Poor diet and inadequate physical activity cause more than 300,000 deaths each year in America.

They are major contributors to disabilities that arise from diabetes, osteoporosis, obesity and strokes, but getting people to improve their lifestyles is no easy task.

Developed by the American Nutrition and Physical Activity Work Group with assistance from the Centre for Disease Control Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity, this book shows how to create or improve nutrition, physical activity and obesity programmes.

It also explains how others are successfully combating the diseases of poor diet, inactivity and obesity.