UOG Horizons: Knowledge for Life - Healthy habits start at home: Protect Guam’s children through diet and lifestyle

10/10/2025

Katrina Macasaquit, an extension associate with UOG Land Grant, teaches the 5-2-1-Almost None curriculum to children at a child care center. The 5-2-1-AN curriculum encourages children to get five servings of fruits and vegetables per day, less than two hours of screen time, at least one hour of physical activity, and almost no sugary beverages. Photo courtesy of the University of Guam

Photo of Rachael Leon Guerrero

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In Guam and across the Pacific, families have long valued strength, vitality, and togetherness. Yet today, a quiet health crisis is threatening the future of our youngest generation. Poor nutrition and unhealthy lifestyle habits in childhood are contributing to the early onset of metabolic syndrome - a harmful cluster of conditions that dramatically increase the risk for chronic illnesses like diabetes, heart disease, stroke, and cancer.

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UOG Horizons: Knowledge for Life - Healthy habits start at home: Protect Guam’s children through diet and lifestyle