Food, Diet & Exercise

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Programs & Services

Eating and moving in healthy ways extends your health, life and ability to thrive. Explore Iowa HHS programs built to help your whole family eat and play well.

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Healthy Eating Active Living (HEAL)

Healthy Eating Active Living , or HEAL, is to enhance where people eat, live, work and play -- to support healthy diets and active lifestyles through equitable efforts, innovative partnerships, and systems thinking approaches.

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5-2-1-0 Healthy Choices Count

5-2-1-0 Healthy Choices Count!—a public-private partnership—cultivates healthy places for Iowa children and families using evidence-based healthy eating and active living approaches. Working together, Iowa HHS and the Healthiest State Initiative provide strategic leadership, stakeholder management, community funding, and evaluation to the initiative.

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Play Your Way!

Physical activity is one of the most important things families can do to stay healthy. Kids who are physically active sleep better, have better moods, and get better grades. It can be hard to find the time in our busy lives. The good news is that when your kids are moving more, they feel good and that can benefit everyone!

Learn how to improve movement and activity in your day.

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Pick a Better Snack

Pick a Better Snack aims to help children eat more fruits and vegetables. Nutrition educators teach 30-minute interactive lessons once a month in kindergarten through 3rd-grade classrooms. Students learn why fruits and vegetables are so good for their bodies, where and how fruits and vegetables grow, and tasty ways to eat them. 

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Additional Resources

Access more information about diet, exercise, and nutrition from helpful sources:

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