Healthy Start



	The Healthy Start Company was founded in 2001 to provide early educational solutions that promote positive healthy behaviors to help prevent childhood obesity and other risk factors for long-term illnesses later in life.
	Our programs are created by a team of the best and the brightest in the fields of obesity prevention, nutrition, physical activity, and educational content. These timely and exemplary programs are extensively researched, evaluated and published in over 20 professional journals.
	The programs are designed to be engaging and fun for young children with stories, games, songs and rhymes. They are adaptable to a variety of preschool environments and easy to integrate into any early childhood education curriculum. Call our offices for more information 631-549-0010 ext 112

March 2007

Healthy Start partners with national organizations to create effective programs to combat childhood obesity. Healthy Start has worked with nationally recognized names such as:

Campbell's Labels for Education Campbell's Labels for Education - Fitness & Nutrition Plans

Time for Kids

National Head Start

After School All Stars.

Call 631-549-0010 ext. 114 to see how we can work with your organization to deliver outstanding materials and evidence based programs.

Coming Soon- Animal Trackers at Home-help your young child learn the motor skills necessary for a lifetime of fitness.

Animal Trackers and Healthy Start receive highest rating from the Cooper Institute nationwide study!

The Children's Healthy Bodies Initiative (CHBI) was launched by the Cooper Institute, with funding from the Michael @ Susan Dell Foundation (www.msdf.org), to identify those programs with the greatest potential to reduce childhood obesity. The study, which included close to 300 programs, gave the highest rating, GOLD, to our programs: Animal Trackers and Healthy Start.

Animal Trackers is now our number one selling program both in the US and abroad! Call to see how you can get started.

American Heart Association reports-Sharp rise in Preschool Obesity!

"The obesity epidemic is reaching down to the playpen: More than 10 percent of U.S. children ages 2 to 5 are overweight, the American Heart Association reported Thursday.

That is up from 7 percent in 1994, according to the heart association's annual statistical report on heart disease and stroke."

Click on link below to read full article

Obesity is rising sharply among U.S. preschoolers | ajc.com

• National Recognition
The Healthy Start Curriculum and our newest obesity prevention program, Animal Trackers, have been recognized for their effectiveness in fighting and preventing obesity by the following organizations:

National Institute of Health Care Management (NIHCM) www.nihcm.org/ChildObesityOverview.pdf
Shaping Americas Youth (SAY). http://www.shapingamericasyouth.com

• Certification Program
Now you can set your preschool apart from all the others. Become a Certified Healthy Start Center. Learn what you can do to earn this prestigious award and focus on obesity prevention early! Call us at (631) 549-0010

• Corporate Sponsorships

Healthy Start invites corporate sponsors to participate in reaching student audiences and their families with health education messages that are proven to be effective. Please call for further information at 631-540-0010 ext 114. We look forward to speaking with you.