SUMMARY:

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     WHO expresses how obesity has reached epidemic proportions globally, where in the EU a minimum of 2.8 million people lose their lives as a result of being obese or overweight every year. Additionally, the EU Action Plan on Childhood Obesity 2014-2020, also states that approximately 7% of national health budgets in the
European Union are spent on diseases which are associated with obesity. The latter indicator does not include considerable indirect costs resulting in lost productivity at the workplace due to workers’ health complications and premature death.
The Youth Exchange is aimed at both educators and youth who, now or in the future, are able to influence generations to improve the quality of our day to day lifestyles as we believe that it is not simply a matter which affects a small sector of the community, but
rather an act which holds the potential of generating a domino effect. We therefore seek to not only improve the quality of future lifestyles of our participants, but on a greater scale to raise awareness to the people around us so that the envisaged impact is ensured.

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The goal is to tackle obesity and unhealthy lifestyle problems by 1)
raising awareness of the issue and 2) encourage active participation of young people. And to reach the goal, the following objectives have been set:
- develop youngsters’ understanding of obesity, its root causes and
ways to tackle it;
- raise awareness on how unhealthy lifestyle leads to various
psychological issues, and importance to pay attention to it;
- generate applicable ideas to improve healthy lifestyle by creating
interactive physical activities;
- promote healthy dishes inspired from the participating countries
which in result would keeping the traditional culture and heritage
alive; integrating food and culture as a tool for non-formal education.
 

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For further details please refer to the Infopack.

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