About Us

At Nutrition & Fitness for a Healthy New York (N&F), we want to help students and their families learn what they need to know to “make healthy choices for healthy lives.” We want to be a part of the team that helps you become more physically active and nutritionally responsible.

As you make the decision to eat healthy and become more active, other members of the team you should look to for assistance include your doctor(s), family, community and friends. Students need to seek out the guidance, supervision, and assistance of their parents and teachers as they consider making these important decisions regarding physical activity and nutritional practices in their lives

N&F, a New York based 501(c)(3), non-profit organization, wants to be a part of the team that empowers you. Along with our collaborating partners, we want to help students and their families move through the stages of nutritional and activity behavior change by providing helpful information, motivation and relapse prevention support. It is our hope that students and families who benefit from our no-cost programs begin practicing health- conscious decision making. We believe that with sustained effort they will demonstrate the continued commitment to remain physically active and nutritionally responsible.

N&F’s approach to helping solve the monumental challenges of physical inactivity and poor nutrition confronting our country is to bring to you the most highly qualified community based professionals who can provide students and their families with cutting edge information, motivation techniques and support. Armed with knowledge about "making healthy choices," students and their families can begin working as a team to identify and incorporate "fun" physical activity and nutritional choices into their lifestyle. Through our ongoing supportive programming available to both students and their parents, we intend to help students and their families learn to become and remain physically active and nutritionally responsible.

Empowering young people and their parents to become the strong team that can stem the tide of inactivity and poor nutrition is our mission. Working with our collaborating professional partners from the American Academy of Pediatrics (District II –NY), the New York Psychological Association, the New York State Farm Bureau, the American Lung Association of New York State, the YMCA’s of NYS, The Sage Colleges and the members of our Advisory Board who hail from the allied health, fitness and education communities, we hope to reach, inform, motivate and support individuals in making positive behavioral changes that will help them make “healthy choices for healthy lives” for years to come.

N&F’s health and wellness initiative “Kids in Motion/Families in Motion” was launched in large measure as a consequence of the commitment and early efforts of New York State Assemblyman Felix Ortiz in his work in the fight against childhood obesity. His taskforce investigative hearings brought to light the absence of comprehensive family based approaches to addressing this costly public health crisis. We at N&F would like to acknowledge the support of Assemblyman Ortiz and The Dr. Robert C. Atkins Foundation in helping us to assist New York’s students and families develop workable solutions to prevent weight gain and obesity through the making of “healthy choices for healthy lives.”

Finally, N&F’s programs are not intended to diagnose medical conditions or provide medical treatment. Please consult with a physician for such services. It is always wise to consult with a physician prior to changing present physical activity and nutrition related behaviors. Your doctor should always play a key role in your health related decision making process.

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