The environment in which you live can make it easier, or more challenging, to be physically active. Many Americans have become sedentary over the years because physical activity has been slowly engineered out of our lives. Physical changes to communities can create safe, healthy environments that encourage and promote active living.
Physical Activity
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Grantee Helps Motivate Kids to Get Healthy
February 28, 2012 | Story
A successful program brings teachers and physicians together to combat childhood obesity by showing kids how to make good health a natural part of learning.
Series of Neighborhood Events Gets Durham, N.C. Residents Up and Moving
January 1, 2004 | Program Result
Project staff at Durham Central Park in Durham, N.C., worked with a coalition of 22 community groups to develop or support events that included physical activities or to interject exercise into events not normally associated with it.
School Sport Participation Under Two School Sport Policies
February 1, 2013 | Journal Article
Intramural sports offer a promising strategy to increase physical activity among middle school students.
Park-Based Physical Activity Among Children and Adolescents
September 1, 2011 | Journal Article
Parks are important to the well-being of children and adolescents they play an important role in increasing physical activity. This study assesses park use and park-based physical activity among children and adolescents, ages 0 to 18 in 2007.
Make Every Day a Healthy Day!: Sesame Workshop Distributes Nutrition and Physical Activity Kit to Child-Care Providers Serving Preschoool Children
August 11, 2010 | Program Result
The Sesame Workshop distributed 14,000 copies of the Healthy Habits for Life Child Care Resource Kit in English and Spanish to home-based child care providers to help them integrate nutrition and physical activity into their daily routines.
New Logo and Trail Signs Identify 2,600-Mile East Coast Greenway Urban Walking and Biking Trail
March 1, 2004 | Program Result
The East Coast Greenway Alliance created a logo and trail signs to promote the use of the East Cost Greenway, a 2,600-mile urban walking and biking trail that will link cities and towns from Maine to Florida.
Chapel Hill Mother Helps Create Active Routes to School
February 22, 2010 | Story
"I saw a lot of excitement in the kids who were part of Walking Wednesdays," said Diana Straughan. "Often, their parents were with them and it created a fellowship."
Exploring Walking Differences by Socioeconomic Status Using a Spatial Agent-Based Model
January 1, 2012 | Journal Article
This simulation suggests that increases in walking that occur when people of lower socioeconomic status feel more positive about activity are difficult to maintain unless the environment is safe. Efforts to increase safety most effectively support walking in mixed-use neighborhoods.
Nash-Edgecombe Counties, N.C.
January 11, 2010 | Story
Community is among 50 sites making critical changes through national initiative to prevent obesity.
Moore-Montgomery Counties, N.C.
January 11, 2010 | Story
Community is among 50 sites making critical changes through national initiative to prevent obesity.