New numbers from the Hamilton County Health Department reveal an alarming snap shot of our children's health.
The Youth Risk Survey found the majority of Hamilton County's High School students don't meet national guidelines for physical activity and nutrition.
But the county's working on ways to change that.
Nearly 60 percent of our students say they spend three or more hours of time looking at a screen.
Three out of four students didn't get at least an hour of physical activity per day the week before the survey.
And 80 percent didn't eat five servings of fruits and veggies daily.
Russell Cliche from Coordinated School Health with Hamilton County Schools says, "It is very alarming a lot of the numbers here. "
That's just some of the results that have local health and school officials concerned...and some students taking action...
Raja Moghrabi, CSLA, "What I've done recently is cut down all my soft drinks."
Emilio Craddock, CSLA, "I row. I play ultimate frisbee."
while giving advice.
Leigh Stanfield, CSLA, "You don't have to kill yourself trying to be healthy just try and make one choice a day "
Joshua Kelly, CSLA, "It doesn't take a whole lot to keep yourself at a healthy weight"
The survey results show a lot of our young people are not following this advice...leaving nearly 30 % overweight or obese..
And it's not just affecting their health.
Cliche says "As students have more and more unhealthy behaviors the chances of those students having lower grades go up."
With less than half our students taking P E...only a quarter daily...the school system's working on adding more activity to the lesson plan.
As programs like Step One work in the community.
John Bilderback, Step One, "The message is getting through the questions is what are the things that are preventing them from taking all those steps all the way forward and those are the things that we're trying to identify."
Identify and change.
The survey also found more of our kids have asthma than the national and state average.
