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Salt Lake Fitness Improvement Team (SLFIT)

SLFIT (Salt Lake Fitness Improvement Team) provides a forum where agencies and communities within the Salt Lake Valley collaborate to foster healthy eating habits and increased physical activity, in order to reduce obesity and its accompanying chronic diseases.

Objectives

Needs and Resources

Identify the needs of majority and minority populations and develop effective ways to deliver resources to reduce obesity in each target population.

Advocacy

Effect policies at the Salt Lake Valley level which influence behavioral and environmental change supporting healthy lifestyles.

Communications

Implement and promote strategies to reduce obesity through effective communication channels.