"5-2-1-0 Healthy NH" is a statewide public education campaign to bring awareness to the daily guidelines for nutrition and physical activity. Its message is simple and clear and represents some of the most important steps families can take to prevent childhood obesity:

5  Fruits and vegetables…more matters!  Eat fruits and vegetables at least 5 times a day.  Limit 100% fruit juice. 
2  Cut screen time to 2 hours or less a day.
1  Participate in at least one hour of moderate to vigorous physical activity every day.
0  Restrict soda and sugar-sweetened sports and fruit drinks.  Instead, drink water and 3-4 servings/day of fat-free/skim or 1% milk.

Below, you'll find resources for doctors, teachers and anyone else in the community to use to promote 5210 Healthy NH and implement the recommendations outlined by the NH Childhood Obesity Expert Panel. All of the materials are free for your use.  Just click on the group of items you are interested in below and a list of materials for you to download will pop up.

Power Point Presentations:
Childhood obesity survey
Childhood obesity recommendations
Changing the Scene Conference, March 2007

We would like to thank the Maine Center for Public Health and the Maine Youth Overweight Collaborative for sharing materials and expertise from the "Keep ME Healthy 5-2-1-0 Power Up" project.

5-2-1-0 Healthy NH Music Jingles Available Now! 

Elementary and middle school children were challenged to apply their talent at creating a 5-2-1-0 Healthy NH jingle by putting their personal spin on the following 5-2-1-0 message: 

• Eat at least 5 servings of fruits and vegetables every day;
• Cut TV and computer time to 2 hours or less a day;
• Spend at least 1 hour of moderate to vigorous physical activity each day; and
• Restrict soda and sugar-sweetened drinks.

The goal of the contest was to help spread these important guidelines to students and their families across the state.  The top two winners were professionally recorded and are available for download for use at home, school or other locations where a healthy message for children is desirable.  

Lucy Eills of Concord won first place for the 3^rd – 5^th grade category with her 5-2-1-0 Hop on the Healthy Bus rendition of the message.

Jonah Siegel of Westmoreland garnered the second place prize with his folksy tune accompanied by guitar.

The full list of jingles receiving recognition include:

We appreciate the support of the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Foundation in supporting this effort.

The top two winning jingles as well as a wide variety of 5-2-1-0 materials including nutritious snack tips, exercise suggestions, the ever popular goal trackers, and more are available for free download at www.healthynh.com or by calling 603-225-0900.