Healthy Weight

There is compelling evidence to suggest that tackling childhood obesity should start by focusing on prevention in the early years of life.  There is an ever shifting focus towards promoting healthy messages from pregnancy onwards and much work nationally has been done to promote key healthy messages through the Change 4 Life campaign, using a family approach to changing behaviour.

Infant Feeding & Nutrition Newslettter
Here in West Cheshire, much work is being done by practitioners, the Local Authority and the NHS to support the Healthy Weight agenda and we hope that you will use the newsletter (below) as a forum for sharing ideas and examples of best practice.  The newsletter will be distributed quartlery and we welcome your contributions.

Early Years Healthy Weight Newsletter: Issue 1 (October 2010) ( PDF 1.51 mb)
Early Years Healthy Weight Newsletter: Issue 2 (January 2011) ( PDF 796 kb)
Early Years Healthy Weight Newsletter: Issue 3 (Spring 2011) ( PDF 980 kb)
Early Years Healthy Weight Newsletter: Issue 4 (Summer 2011) ( PDF 2.08 mb)
Early Years Healthy Weight Newsletter: Issue 5 (Autumn 2011) ( PDF 1.07 mb)
Early Years Healthy Weight Newsletter: Issue 6 (Spring 2012) ( PDF 588 kb)