Health Promotion Program

Goals of this Program
Enhance abilities of athletes to do training and finish matches in Special Olympics Games, and raise their awareness of nutrition and its impact on life cycles.

Education in Nutrition provides health experts and other people with the chances to evaluate the nutrition condition of athletes, and provide athletes with learning opportunities in an interactive way through their participation in the Special Olympics program. The integration of nutrition evaluation and educational activities with sports can strengthen the importance of health on entertainment, and in the meantime, improve the health condition of athletes. The nutrition program is mainly held on Special Olympics Games at state or regional level.

Program Content
1. Educate Special Olympics athletes, families/guardians and coaches about Nutrition.
2. Perform evaluation of nutrition condition (height/weight), and provide relevant information by combining evaluation, health condition and the performance of Special Olympics athletes.
3. Conduct peripheral bone density testing (heel) and provide relevant information to prevent osteoporosis.
4. Based on athletes’ health needs, recommend relevant professionals (such as doctors, dentists, and dietitians) to them.
5. Get to know more professionals in health (dentistry, nutrition, plastic surgery, vision, dermatology, professional treatment, speech and hearing).
6. Improve the awareness of athletes’ nutrition conditions in communities.