While there are many active families in Denver, helping Denver top lists of cities with America's fittest populations, there is still a need to increase health awareness amongst the youth and decrease childhood obesity rates.  Nearly 1 in 5 high school student in Colorado is overweight or obese and more than 1 in 4 children in Colorado is overweight or obese.  Being proactive, Denver and the state of Colorado already have plans in motion to reach their goals.  Goals focused on reversing the upward obesity trend by developing a culture of health, creating healthier conditions such as building awareness to reduce the consumption of sugar-loaded beverages, to ensuring all children have access to physical activities on a daily basis.  Partnering with like-minded business, Denver's goal is to meet or exceed the Healthy People 2020 age-specific obesity goals.

 

Having a passion and mission for helping increase health awareness within the youth and building healthy families, Living with SHAPE is excited to join the health movement to help Colorado and Denver reach their goals by playing our part in helping children and parents live healthier balanced lifestyles.  Living with SHAPE is a strength-based coaching program in the Denver area that provides the youth with personal fitness coaches who focus on building physical and mental health within our kids while providing parents with the tools to continue the training at home to create healthy families. We are healthy role models who strive to uncover the healthy role models in all of us in order to create healthy families through our encouragement coaching strategies.