Healthy Eating in Summer Day Camps: The Healthy Lunchbox Challenge

First year physical activity findings from turn up the HEAT (Healthy Eating and Activity Time) in summer day camps

BACKGROUND Summer day camps (SDCs) serve 14 million children yearly in the U.S. and aim to provide participating children with 60 minutes of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA). This study evaluated an intervention designed to increase the percent of children meeting this MVPA guideline. DESIGN Two-group, pre-post quasi-experimental. SETTING/PARTICIPANTS Twenty SDCs serving 1,830 ...

Injury patterns at US and Canadian overnight summer camps: first year of the Healthy Camp study.

OBJECTIVE To describe injury patterns at overnight summer camps in 2006, and identify risk factors for more significant injury. DESIGN Surveillance data obtained from Healthy Camp Study from 2006 were analyzed from 71 overnight camps, representing 437,541 camper-days and 206,031 staff-days. RESULTS Injuries were reported in 218 campers and 81 staff. 51.8% of injured campers were male versus...

The Healthy Eating Index

Summer Camps

thousand. Four years later there were about two hundred camps in existence, and five thousand boys were in the field. The number has increased steadily and rapidly in the last five years. Five years ago about ten thousand boys received the benefit of outdoor life during the summer months. During the past season, 1907, there were between four and five hundred summer camps, and about twenty-five ...

How physically active are children attending summer day camps?

BACKGROUND Summer day camps (SDC) represent one of the largest settings, outside the academic school year, where children can engage in safe, enjoyable physical activity (PA). Yet, little is known about this setting and how active children are while attending. METHODS System for Observing Play and Leisure Activity in Youth was used to categorize PA of boys/girls as Sedentary/Walking/Vigorous ...