March is National Nutrition Month!
The theme for March 2012 is "Get Your Plate in Shape."
National Nutrition Month® is a nutrition education and information campaign created annually in March by the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. The campaign focuses attention on the importance of making informed food choices and developing sound eating and physical activity habits. The key messages are featured in the "Get Your Plate in Shape" Nutrition Tip Sheet. The collection appears on the Nutrition Education Resources page...more >
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Welcome to Martin's Point Health Care!5210 Step's Up! is pleased to welcome it's newest partner, Martin's Point Health Care. Martin's Point Health Care is a non-for profit health care organization based in Portland, Maine, whose goal is to provide excellent health care and customer service to the communities they serve and, ultimately, to help those they care for to live healthier lives...more >
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5210 Steps Up! Teams Up With 5210 Let's Go!
5210 Step's Up! is proud to partner with the 5210 Let's Go! initiative which promotes healthy lifestyle
choices for children, youth and families in 12 Greater Portland, Maine
communities. Included in this section, will be valuable resource
materials including tool kits, educational and instructional guides and
curricula for schools, including after school programs, health care
centers and community-based programs...more >
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Grow-A-Row for the Hungry!
Grow-ARow is coming to the Seacoast! It's a unique community-based program that encourages individual and community gardeners to plant and donate an extra row of produce for the greater good in support of local food pantries and food relief organizations in neighborhoods, local districts, cities and counties nationwide...more >
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Newfields Kids Jumpstart Their Heart
Seacoast Online October 28, 2011
The students at Newfields Elementary School are learning not just their three R's, but their 5-2-1-0s...more >
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Two Exeter Schools Score Bronze for Healthy Living
Seacoast Online October 28, 2011
The Exeter schools are the first recipients of the HealthierUS School
Challenge put on by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The schools were
presented with the award on Wednesday, and held assemblies as a
kick-off for the 5-2-1-0 Steps Up Coalition....more >
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Growing to Fill the Need
the WIRE June 16, 2011
Kim Truesdale, a Newfields resident and leader of the group 5210 Steps
Up!, is spearheading local efforts around Plant a Row, encouraging
gardeners to dedicate a row of vegetables to a nearby food pantry...more >
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Let's Move! is a comprehensive initiative, launched by Michelle Obama, dedicated to solving the problem of obesity within a generation, so that children born today will grow up healthier and able to pursue their dreams.
Find out more, here!
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