Change4Life is a new initiative, supported by the Department of Health, which brings together professionals from across the different sectors of society, including local councils, health authorities, schools and charities, with the shared aim of improving children’s diets and activity levels in a bid to improve their future health and happiness.
The goal is to prevent people from becoming overweight by helping every family in England to eat better, move more and live longer.
The campaign aims to make parents aware of the links between poor diet, sedentary lifestyles and preventable illnesses, and to make everyone accept responsibility for ensuring that our children eat more healthily and we all take regular exercise.
Change4Life will combine with the 5 A Day campaign and other relevant healthy living initiatives.
The government also plans to bring about changes in food manufacturing, shopping habits and new activity schemes and to spread the word through the press, television and radio.
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