Prevent and Control High Blood Pressure: Mission Possible

High blood pressure prevention information is relevant—and important—to you, your students, and their families!
By participating in Prevent and Control High Blood Pressure: Mission Possible, you can start your students on the road to good heart health at an early age - instilling habits that can help them - and their families - live long, high quality lives and contribute to their communities.

Here are suggestions for how you can participate in Prevent and Control High Blood Pressure: Mission Possible. After you've reviewed them, go to Materials to help you get started.

• Activities for Teachers & Schools
• Materials for Teachers & Schools

Activities for Teachers & Schools

Students and Parents

• Hold Health Fairs
  Hold health fairs for students, parents, and the community to promote heart healthy lifestyles. Include blood pressure screenings, heart healthy cooking demonstrations, and physical activity competitions.

• Expand Sporting Events
  Make heart health education part of sporting events, with interactive activities for attendees—reinforcing the value and enjoyment of physical activity for everyone.

• Involve Students
  Incorporate high blood pressure education into health classes—have students evaluate and improve their family's eating and physical activity habits to encourage heart healthy lifestyles.

• Encourage Physical Activity
  Work with administrators (and parents) to underscore the importance of recess, play periods, and physical education programs—supporting lifelong enjoyment of physical activity.

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Community

• Help Parents Build Healthier Families
  Help parents build healthier families by including high blood pressure prevention and control information in PTA health programs and home mailings.

• Involve School Dietitians
  Consult with cafeteria dietitians to promote heart healthy menus, including fruits and vegetables and lowfat dairy foods, and make sure vending machines stock healthy choices.

• Support Healthy Habits
  Prevent overweight and obesity in children by working with parents and communities to support healthy eating and regular physical activity. And, as influential role models, you can promote healthy lifestyles with students through your own eating and physical activity habits.

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