Recommended Strategies

HEAL's Recommended Strategies for Health Care

• Seek training and support to integrate healthy eating and active living into clinical and organizational policies and practices
• Conduct assessment of dietary and physical activity behaviors, including BMI, for both adults and children at all routine visits
• Provide counseling and behavioral interventions to assist patients to improve dietary choices and physical activity behaviors
• Provide referrals to community healthy eating and active living resources as needed
• Create organizational environments that model healthy policies and practices for patients, employees and visitors