Operation Transformation

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Operation Transformation

• 7 Things We Can Do.

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Bring Back the Scales

• Children to be weighed each year at school
• Everyone to be weighed at each GP visit
• Everyone to be weighed at each hospital visit

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Step It Up

• All parents should know exactly how much exercise
  their children need to do on a daily basis
• This should be presented to parents in a way that
  is easy to understand and easy to monitor

4
Fruit At The Check Out

• High sugar confectionary and drinks to be
  replaced with fruit at the checkout in shops and
  supermarkets

5
Food Education

• Cooking lessons to be given to children at school
• Every child should leave the education system
  knowing how to cook a number of basic but
  nutritionally balanced meals

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Fit at School, Fit for Life

• 100 extra PE teachers to support primary level
  schools across the country
• For PE to be taken seriously at second level give
  it points on the Leaving Cert.

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Count Me In

• Display calorie content of food and drinks beside
  the price on menu boards

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Treat the Cause not the Symptoms
Prescribe Weight Loss Not Just Medication
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7 Point Plan

• Bring back the scales
• Step It Up
• Fruit at the Check Out
• Food Education
• Fit at School, Fit for Life
• Count Me In
• Treat the cause not the symptom