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A community-University of Michigan Health System (UMHS) collaborative

PHS Newsletter

PHS Newsletter

Check out the PHS newsletter to view the latest PHS stats, see how this growth will be sustained and supported, and to Learn more about PHS.

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Memorial FIT KIDS Wins National Hospital Charitable Service Award
Memorial FIT Kids, part of PHS, has implemented the PHS curriculum and attributes much of its success to PHS and the staff at the U-M. They are involved in every school district in the Shiawassee County region and have evaluated 4,409 sixth grade students for cardiovascular disease risk factors over the last seven years.

School Lunches

New Standards to Make School Foods More Nutritious

More whole grains, More fruits and veggies, Less sodium, Limits on saturated and trans fat, Only fat free and 1% milk.

Find out more about changes coming to school cafeterias!

PHS Props

Prop Kits

Ann Arbor middle schools now have their own Project Healthy Schools prop kits, thanks to the Ann Arbor Education Foundation. The props bring each of the 10 hands-on activities to life in the classroom.

Veggie Tray Project Healthy Schools (PHS) provides a school-based program to reduce childhood obesity and its long-term health risks. Focusing primarily on sixth grade students, PHS aims to stem the tide of this epidemic by:

  • teaching youth healthy habits
  • developing healthy school environments
  • creating an infrastructure that supports program sustainability and replication

Healthy youth who continue to practice healthy lifestyles will grow into healthy adults with fewer risk factors for cardiovascular disease, diabetes and other chronic illness. Project Healthy Schools is one of the few school-based programs that have demonstrated significant improvements in both health behavior and cardiovascular risk factors, such as reductions in:

  • total cholesterol,
  • LDL cholesterol (bad cholesterol)
  • triglycerides
  • blood pressure