The Healthy Youth Program is supported by a grant from USANA Health Sciences, Inc., Salt Lake City, UT.
Providing public education on the role of diet, lifestyle, and micronutrients in promoting optimum health and preventing or treating disease has been a major commitment of the Linus Pauling Institute since its inception at Oregon State University in 1996. The Healthy Youth Program was developed in 2009 in response to the declining emphasis on nutrition and physical education in our schools and the alarming increase of childhood overweight and obesity in the United States. The goals of the Healthy Youth Program are to provide educational and activity programs to school children and their families and instill healthful diet and lifestyle habits into our youth, thereby helping them maintain a healthy body weight and stave off chronic disease into adulthood.
To find out more about the different projects in the Healthy Youth Program, select a project on the left or click on a project listed below.
