Latinos Promote Health on National Youth Advisory Board

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The Alliance for a Healthier Generation recently announced the roster for its Youth Advisory Board, one of the only youth-led advisory groups in the country focused on childhood obesity issues.

These youths, which include several Latinos, play an integral role in advising and providing a youth perspective to the Alliance as it strives to encourage young people across the nation to make healthy choices.

Board members also serve as national spokespeople for the Alliance speaking at local and national events, interviewing with journalists and health-education experts, engaging with community leaders, and addressing their peers.

Each board member also must start healthy changes in their own neighborhoods and school districts by engaging in service-learning programs in their communities.

For example, 18-year-old board member Rogelio Barrera Bejarano of Van Nuys, Calif., has been able to spread awareness on the importance of eating healthy and being active by teaching empowerME4Life, a healthy living curriculum, to two little league soccer teams.

He also helped bring healthy snack options to his high school’s homecoming dance.

Read more about all the board members here.