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Article: UnitedHealth Group Grants to Help Students and Educators Combat Childhood Obesity.
- Article from:
- Obesity & Diabetes Week
- Article date:
- December 15, 2008
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UnitedHealth Group (NYSE:UNH) is giving Pennsylvania children the opportunity to become "health care heroes" by learning about childhood obesity, designing programs to address it and implementing the programs in their communities (see also Obesity).
UnitedHealth HEROES is a service-learning, health literacy initiative designed to encourage young people, working through educators and youth leaders, to create and implement local hands-on programs to address the issue of childhood obesity. Two UnitedHealth Group companies, UnitedHealthcare and AmeriChoice, are launching the program in 15 states.
"With UnitedHealth HEROES, we are helping young people take ...