18 Dec 2025
When the refrigerator becomes a classroom 📚 in the course "Don't Let the Fat Child" 👧🏻👦🏻
Children's health became an insurmountable agenda when the BMA surveyed 20% of 220,000 students from all schools in Bangkok were overweight, physical education hours were organized, sports activities were organized, or exercise could not be enough, and knowledge of texts could not change real behavior.
This is the beginning of the "Don't Let Kids Get Fat" course, a course aimed at changing children's attitudes and behavior.
Through practical action rather than memorization, implemented under Bangkok, City for Better Health, which builds on Novo Nordysk's idea of developing a healthy city.
Novo Nordysk has driven the City for Better Health program in more than 50 cities around the world.
Together with the public, private and civil society,
To promote a healthy lifestyle and prevent diseases.
An obvious example is the Spor 10 project in the heart of Copenhagen, which has turned undeveloped areas into vibrant community and sports grounds. These achievements have been brought to Bangkok by the cooperation of the BMA, the Danish Embassy, Novo Nordik Pharma (Thailand), Nudge Thailand and the MP.
"Don't Let the Fat Kids" Course
Emphasis is placed on integrating into 8 learning essence groups.
To make learning about health fun, not boring.
For example, the combination of science + art.
With activities, draw Rainbow Plates (fruits and vegetables of different colors), children will paint colorful fruits and vegetables on the plate.
To learn that different colors provide different nutrients.
Also creating a positive attitude towards vegetables.
Turn the "darn" feeling into fun.
The other challenge is... 👉 children do well at school, but go fat at home 👈, so the course does not stop at the school fence, but reaches the refrigerator door at home, through refrigerator exploration activities that allow children to engage in activities with their parents, explore what's needed to be healthy, record it in their health book, and invite parents to share their favorite "health menu" so that homes and schools can become safe areas for nutrition together.
The BMA will collect data and after to track the results.
And there will be a continuous evaluation to ensure that the path is correct. It will try out the pilot schools in the BMA, divided into two groups: 1. Trial group of 21 schools, 2. Control group of 19 schools, and will expand all schools by fiscal year 2027.









































































