Missouri educators tell of battle against childhood obesity at Valley program

By Patricia Villers
Register Staff
ANSONIA — Valley educators and health care officials learned at Ansonia High School how a school district more than 1,200 miles away has been combating childhood obesity.
Jim Hinson, superintendent of schools in Independence, Mo., and Jennifer Walker, the Independence district’s director of youth development, addressed the group in a forum sponsored by Griffin Hospital and the Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center.
Hinson described how students’ health is key to their academic achievement, and said educators need to understand the impact they have on students’ overall quality of life.

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