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MCC Child Care Center Participates in Eat Well Play Hard Initiative


The MCC Child Care Center was highlighted in the Democrat and Chronicle article “Foundation begins battle on childhood obesity” (Feb. 5 issue). MCC’s center is one of 12 centers selected to participate in the Eat Well Play Hard initiative, supported by the Greater Rochester Health Foundation. On Feb. 4, the health foundation announced the first of its $50 million anti-obesity funding effort over the next decade.

As noted in the article, “About 15 percent of children ages 2 to 10 in Monroe County — 12,244 children — are overweight or obese, based on their height and weight. The foundation's goal is to reduce that rate to 5 percent by 2017.” Child care centers are viewed as the “front line of the battle against childhood obesity.”

 

To read the article, please click on the link below:

<https://www.democratandchronicle.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080205/NEWS01/802050340>

 

Rosanna Condello
College and Community Relations
02/06/2008