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Healthy Marketing with Parents’ Help.

Healthy and Active Before 5 and First 5 Contra Costa are working on a 3 year social marketing campaign to reduce the consumption of sugary sweetened beverages and promote drinking tap water. There is no single cause of childhood obesity. … Continue reading

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Children need to drink water.

Yes, we have some strong opinions. Kids should be offered water when they are thirsty. Young children should not be given soda, punch and colorful “drinks.” Children shouldn’t have more than 4-6 ounces of 100% fruit juice a day — … Continue reading

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HAB45 Leadership Council Gets Active!

(This story was originally posted in First 5 Contra Costa’s Newsletter, August 2011.) In photo from left to right: Kitty Lenhart – Child Care Council,  Jan Schiling – Weigh of Life, Jennifer Balogh – Healthy and Active Before 5, Sandra … Continue reading

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Delivering Change that Matters

As residents of Contra Costa County ourselves, Brown·Miller Communications, Inc. is pleased to be working with Healthy and Active Before 5 and First 5 Contra Costa to develop a multi-year social marketing campaign to reduce childhood obesity in our own … Continue reading

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