Personal Health
Personal Health Care
Chronic Disease Prevention
  7-5-2-1-0  
 

 


Thurston County encourages children and their families to follow some simple steps toward staying healthy and preventing chronic illness through the number
7-5-2-1-0:
 
7 - Eat breakfast every day.
5 - Eat 5 or more servings of fruits and vegetables every day.
2 - Limit screen time (time in front of a computer, television or video games) unrelated to school to 2 hours or less daily.
1 - Get 1 hour or more of moderate to vigorous physical activity every day.
  0 - Drink less sugar.  Try water and low-fat milk instead of sugar-sweetened drinks.
     

 

            

For more information about Thurston County's Healthy Child Weight initiative, visit Healthy Child Weight.
     
printed publications

Healthy Child Weight Flyer

[PDF] *217KB

[JPEG]  *32KB

TAKE THE PLEDGE!

Grow Happy Kids Pledge Card [PDF]

contact

Chris Hawkins
Active Healthy Community Coordinator

(360) 867-2513

or

E-mail

IMAGE:  Facebook Invite
This page last updated: 05/21/12