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promoting healthy eating: fitnessgram  

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  • Data from the health-assessment tool FitnessGram can support school health professionals, teachers, and administrators in advocating for a coordinated approach to school health and physical education programming. When FitnessGram results and scores, indicating a child's overall health-related fitness, are shared with the child and child's parents or guardians, the child or parent may be prompted to improve or maintain healthy behaviors and lifestyle. [Source: Encyclopedia of School Health; Promoting Healthy Eating: FitnessGram]

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