Be active eat well

• Reach:

  VIC

• Focus area:

  Mainstream

• Status:

  Completed

• Evaluated:

  No

• Time frame:

  1 June 2002 - 30 June 2006

Overview

Be active eat well is a community-based initiative designed to provide the opportunity, resources and support to build a community's capacity to promote healthy eating and physical activity.

The project aimed to promote healthy eating and physical activity behaviours and reduce unhealthy weight gain in children aged 4-12 years in the rural Victorian town of Colac. The Colac project was successful in reducing unhealthy increases in children's weight and waist measurement. This was the first such evidence that whole-of-community programs in Australia can have an impact on unhealthy weight gain in primary school children.

Related publications

de Silva-Sanigorski AM, Bolton K, Haby M, Kremer P, Gibbs L, Waters E, Swinburn B (2010)

Scaling up community-based obesity prevention in Australia: background and evaluation design of the health promoting communities: Being Active Eating Well initiative.

BMC Public Health; 10: 65

Retrieved 12 February 2010 from http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1471-2458-10-65.pdf

• Links
• View abstract: Scaling up community-based obesity prevention in Australia: background and evaluation design of the health promoting communities: Being Active Eating Well initiative
• View article: Scaling up community-based obesity prevention in Australia: background and evaluation design of the health promoting communities: Being Active Eating Well initiative (PDF - 204.0 KB)
• View information: Scaling up community-based obesity prevention in Australia: background and evaluation design of the health promoting communities: Being Active Eating Well initiative
• View website: BMC Public Health

Links

• View information: Be Active Eat Well
• View information: Be Active Eat Well final reports
• View information: Be Active Eat Well objectives
• View website: Go for your life, Victorian Government