Posts Tagged ‘Kids’
Evansville, IN (PRWEB) May 14, 2012
ProRehab and the University Of Evansville Aces Men?s Soccer Team teamed up to address childhood health and wellness at the local level with the HEALTHY BODIES, HEALTHY MINDS program. The successful program ran from February 1, 2012 to April 15, 2012 and helped 489 students in the Evansville area complete goals in eating healthier foods, exercising, and reading.
The HEALTHY BODIES, HEALTHY MINDS program is a by-product of the successful reading program, Score With The Aces, which is also the result of a collaborative effort between ProRehab and the University of Evansville. The HEALTHY BODIES, HEALTHY MINDS program fits into school wellness programming and creates a user-friendly approach for teaching healthy lifestyle strategies to elementary school students.
During the three-month-long program, students were rewarded for reaching daily goals that related to diet, exercise, and reading. Meeting specific goals offered unique prizes: members of the Aces visited the classroom to discuss good lifestyle habits; students received HEALTHY BODIES, HEALTHY MINDS t-shirts; and students were able to participate in healthy lifestyle activities with Aces players and staff at their respective schools.
?The first HEALTHY BODIES, HEALTHY MINDS program was met with resounding success!? states Andrea Baumann, ProRehab Physical Therapist and co-owner. ?Students were energized by reaching goals and will now be able to make healthier decisions in the future. We hope to make this an annual event and include even more students next year to continue to spread wellness throughout Evansville and beyond.?
About ProRehab:
ProRehab is a private physical therapy practice with locations in Evansville, southwest Indiana and western Kentucky. Known for teaching and training physical therapists throughout the region, ProRehab physical therapists are proud that patients ask their doctors to send them to ProRehab for orthopaedic care. They deliver hands-on physical and occupational therapy based on the newest research to achieve the best results for patients with bad backs, achy joints, wounded hands, and sports and work injuries. Along the way, the ProRehab family has fun and makes friends with their patients; patients are actually sad to leave after their treatment is over! Find ProRehab on Facebook, @ProRehab on Twitter, and FourSquare.
Coppell, TX (PRWEB) May 09, 2012
It?s easy to count the number of people who get sick each year with a foodborne illness, and you can even use your fingers?1 out of every 6 Americans.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, that adds up to over 48 million people. Of those, 128,000 are hospitalized and 3,000 people die as a result of foodborne pathogens such as salmonella, listeria and E. coli. Those that are at the greatest risk include older adults, pregnant women and young children.
?Foodborne illnesses and deaths are preventable, and as such, unacceptable,? said FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg, M.D. ?We must do better by intensifying our efforts to implement measures that are prevention-oriented and science-based.?
Teaching the basics of food safety to your children is not only important to their health, but it can also be fun and rewarding. Start with these prevention tips while empowering kids to keep a watchful eye on food safety practices at home.
Ask the kids to follow the ?A-B-C? rule, which stands for ?always be clean!? Here?s how:
Farmington Hills, Michigan (PRWEB) April 24, 2012
Schools have the responsibility of keeping our children safe during the school day and parents have the right to be a partner in that effort. Parent Action for Healthy Kids has released these 10 important questions for parents to ask the principal to ensure a bully-free school.
1. Can parents view a copy of the district?s Anti-Bullying Policy?
Note: A critical section in an anti-bullying policy would cover the procedure for reporting bullying and how the report is investigated by the school.
2. Has the school completed a staff and student survey to assess the level of bullying and other aggressive behavior?
3. Does the school have a team identified to review the survey results and to look at evidence-based solutions that will be sustained long-term?
4. Who is on the team, and does it include a broad representation of parents?
5. Has all staff received training on bullying prevention? This includes every adult who interacts with the children (custodians, bus drivers, secretaries, food service, etc.)
6. Is the training focused on giving adults the skills necessary to intervene effectively with aggression and create a positive environment?
7. Has a behavioral chart (often called a rubric) been developed that lists the consequences earned for choosing aggressive or bullying behavior?
8. What formal instruction are the children receiving on how to behave? In other words, where, and how, is social-emotional skill development being taught? Note: This would generally occur through a comprehensive health education class using curricula such as the Michigan Model for Health
Laguna Beach, CA (PRWEB) March 01, 2012
The Food Network?s Rachel Ray will be one of the judges for an Uncle Ben?s healthy cooking contest for kids. The grand prize winner will receive an appearance on the Rachel Ray Show, $ 20,000 in cash, and a $ 50,000 cafeteria makeover for their school. Ten year old Olivia Ladaire, aka Livvey plans to win, but not for the reasons you might think.
VOTE FOR LIVVEY HERE
http://tinyurl.com/8xmobp8
?This is exactly the type of opportunity that we have been waiting for ?, exclaims Livvey. Livvey has been eating fresh healthy food since she was a baby but was horrified to find out how most of her new friends ate when she transferred to a public school in 3rd grade. ?It?s crazy what most of my friends eat, and it?s really sad what they won?t eat. I?m actually not even sure how some of these kids survive and grow with the junk that they put in their bodies on a daily basis? says Livvey.
Livvey attests to the fact that many of the parents try to pack healthy lunches, but the kids are so stuck on eating junk food that many of the them simply refuse to eat them, and instead dump them, untouched into the trash, so they can head to the play ground faster. Other parents seem to have decided that getting something into their children?s bellies is better than nothing, so they give in to the ?parent pressure? as Livvey likes to call it, and give their kids whatever they will eat. ?One of my friends literally gets a bag of marshmallows in her lunch every day of the week!? yells Livvey. ?It?s this kind of behavior that got my daughter and I talking about how we can start trying to change the way kids think about food.? chimes in mom, Melissa Ladaire, who entered the contest with Livvey. ?We really want to make a difference in how these kids think about food?, she continues.
HELP LIVVEY WIN THE CONTEST BY VOTING FOR HER AT THE LINK BELOW
http://tinyurl.com/8xmobp8
or going to the Uncle Ben?s Beginner?s contest website and searching for Olivia Ladaire.
About a year ago Livvey and Melissa came up with an idea. ?What if we had a mother/daughter talk show where teach how to cook healthy recipes. We could encouraged kids and their parents to make healthy choices about what they put into their bodies and at the same time encourage open communication between kids and adults by talking about things that they both enjoy? Think, Rachel Ray, meets, Oprah and Ellen Degeneres!? Livvey and her mom both loved the idea, but didn?t want to make the show just about cooking. ?We wanted to encourage all kinds of healthy lifestyle choices, like getting out and exercising and being good to our planet.?
They began talking to their local cable company about the show and working on ideas of how they could get their message across when last March Melissa was diagnosed with breast cancer. ?I am very lucky, we caught it really early. It was the strangest thing, I was lying in bed one morning and I felt two little tingling pains in my right breast. They were very subtle and I didn?t feel any lumps, but I knew I had to be checked.? A mammogram revealed calcium deposits in the same two spots she felt the sensations, an early sign of cancer cell activity, and later, a tissue sample revealed DCIS. Melissa, with the encouragement of her family, decided on a bilateral mastectomy as a course of treatment. Although their plans were temporarily side railed, the two of them never stopped talking about their idea.
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Now healthy, but short of funds after a long recovery period, and even more serious about what goes into their bodies, Melissa and Olivia have been trying to figure out how to make their dream a reality. ?The original idea was that we would be on the talk show together. Livvey is really smart, really funny and really talented, she can sing, (check out her video on youtube), http://youtu.be/cYu9mL_yQ
she can dance and I think kids and their parents would get a kick out of our banter and our different points of view given our age difference,? says mom. But with no budget, Melissa had to operate the camera, and Livvey had to do her cooking alone.
Check out this short video or Livvey demonstrating how to make Kale chips for Paula Deen.
http://youtu.be/D3S79BQGj64
?We are really just getting started again. We have made a few sample cooking videos and posted them on Youtube and sent a few to Cox for review. So far, their advice has been to keep at it? lol, and our videos on Youtube have gone almost unnoticed, but we are far from being ready to give up. We definitely have a lot of work to do to get our show to where we want it and $ 20,000 would really help.? If Livvey and Melissa were to win this contest, they say they would use the money to create a pilot of their talk show idea and see if they could get some cable stations to pick up the show. ?Even if we don?t win the contest, we feel this is a great opportunity to have a chance to begin to influence people to make better choices about what they eat.?
VOTE FOR LIVVEY AND MOM MELISSA
http://tinyurl.com/8xmobp8
OR
http://www.facebook.com/unclebens?sk=app_357560190924548
and search for Olivia Ladaire
?As adults, we are always telling kids that they should eat right, but most of us are horrible examples. We know that the American diet is literally killing us and if we want it to change, we have to start teaching our kids how to think about food differently. Food is not just something you put in your body to fill it up when you feel hungry, or a sugary reward for a job well done. It is our energy source and our body?s productivity is dramatically affected by everything we put into it. The message is really very simple, keep eating junk and you will look and feel like crap! Pardon my potty mouth?, ?Moooom!? Livvey laughs.
Livvey and Melissa really think they have a shot at making cooking and eating healthy food fun, entertaining and hip. Livvey says, ?One of the things that my mom and I like to do to do together is watch popular cooking shows on tv like the Rachel Ray Show or Paula Deen and when we find something that we think would be fun to make, we like to figure out how we can improve the recipe by making it healthier.? The duo often use non-dairy beverages like rice milk, coconut milk or almond milk instead of cow?s milk, flaxseed meal in baked items instead of oil or butter, and fruit such as apple sauce, raisins and prunes for sweeteners as well as carrots and beets. There are a lot of creative ways to cut down on fat and sugar when cooking and not take too much away from the taste.
?The truth is, that as you start eating healthier, your taste buds change. You actually start noticing more subtle flavors and stronger flavors become even more delicious and intense as you get away from overly processed, fattening and sugary foods. Kids and adults alike begin craving these healthier foods as they get used to eating them and will start noticing that when they eat a lot of food that is not healthy, that they don?t feel very good. For me, the pleasure of eating a huge slice of white flour cake loaded up with frosting is just not that enticing anymore, knowing that thirty minutes later, I?m going to feel horrible? admits Melissa, ?I had to learn this, Livvey seemed to instinctively know this or at least learned her lessons a lot quicker, because she is really good about not over eating sweet stuff, not that she never indulges. I want her to experience some of the things that her friends do and enjoy treats. The problem is most Americans have gotten to the point where treats are so easily accessible, that we eat them frequently throughout the day in large quantities and seldom eat nutritious food and that is a recipe for disaster with our health.?
HELP US WIN A SPOT ON THE RACHEL RAY SHOW
http://tinyurl.com/8xmobp8
http://www.facebook.com/unclebens?sk=app_357560190924548
search for Olivia Ladaire
?We are really excited that Uncle Ben?s and other major corporations are beginning to understand that changes need to be made, and are making an effort to send better messages and even clean up some of the ingredients they are adding to their products.?
The contest encourages a child and his or her parent to cook a meal or dish on camera using Uncle Ben?s rice and showing the audience how they did it and what they learned. The judging will be based on the following criteria.
Kids bite on healthier snacks
Sometimes it's carrots, apples, yogurt or cheese sticks — healthy stuff. The kids like them, Director Gina Bates said. Some snacks are less healthy — pre-packaged crackers, pastries, funnel cakes or a small fruit-type pie that Bates thinks is cherry.
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Healthy snacks in store for Valentine's Day
With Valentine's Day quickly approaching, parents and teachers are looking for healthy snacks and creative crafts to entertain children at holiday-themed parties. Brent Fountain, associate extension professor and human nutrition specialist with …
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North Kingstown, Rhode Island (PRWEB) December 01, 2011
Is Your Hair Made of Donuts? by award-winning author Joy Feldman will be released nationwide in March 2012. A new children?s book designed to inspire children to become healthy eaters, Is Your Hair Made of Donuts? (ISBN: 978-0-615-55515-7, Category: Children?s Picture Book, 40 pages, 18 full color illustrations, $ 8.95, Distributed by Pathways) will be released on March 1, 2012 in conjunction with National Nutrition Month. Is Your Hair Made of Donuts? will also be available in an eBook edition.
Is Your Hair Made of Donuts? is the story of brother-and-sister Matt and Maddie Blossom. Matt and Maddie are fed up with being different: their friends get to enjoy candy, sugary snacks, and tempting treats, while Matt and Maddie are stuck with the healthy foods their mom insists on feeding them.
Dreaming of donuts, cookies, candy bars, potato chips and soda, Matt and Maddie think their dreams are about to come true when their mom gives in to their wildest wishes. Finally, Matt and Maddie are granted entry into that alluring section of the supermarket their mom calls ?The Wasteland.?
Bursting with excitement, Matt and Maddie eagerly pick out those forbidden foods they?ve been dreaming of and race to the check-out counter before their mom changes her mind.
Barely able to contain their enthusiasm on the ride home, Matt and Maddie can?t wait to launch a sugar-fueled feeding frenzy. But when the mountains of ooey gooey donuts are gone, Matt and Maddie will realize that their dreams are about to turn into nightmares?literally.
Matt and Maddie will soon find out that the phrase ?you are what you eat? may be truer than they think.
A vibrant, charming and colorful tale, Is Your Hair Made of Donuts? is filled with delightful illustrations by Beth Slocum and Amanda Mueller. A captivating story with an important message for kids, Is Your Hair Made of Donuts? includes healthy, kid-friendly, Matt-and-Maddie-approved recipes. Beautifully illustrated and written to inspire giggles, gasps, and grins, Is Your Hair Made of Donuts? is an entertaining and imaginative read that provides plenty of food for thought.
A nutrition expert and author of the award-winning Joyful Cooking in the Pursuit of Good Health, Joy Feldman is passionate about inspiring and teaching persons both young and old the value of healthy foods. Originally from New York, Joy Feldman lives in Rhode Island. Beth Slocum received her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. The founder of Woodhaus Studio, a full service graphic design firm, Beth lives in Island Heights, New Jersey. A native of Arizona, Amanda Mueller received her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. She lives in San Diego, California, where she works as a freelance artist and designer.
Members of the news media wishing to request additional information about Is Your Hair Made of Donuts? or author Joy Feldman are asked to contact Maryglenn McCombs by phone ? (615) 297-9875
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Find More Healthy Foods For Kids Press Releases
Fairfield, N.J. (PRWEB) November 23, 2011
Want to help your loved ones stay healthy and happy this holiday while satisfying their sweet tooth? Stuff your stockings with Crispy Green
Owatonna, MN (PRWEB) September 20, 2011
In support of the USDA?s recently updated nutrition initiative ?MyPlate?, Learning ZoneXpress (LZX) is now offering a variety of Kids MyPlate products to promote the Dietary Guidelines for children.
?We are excited to release a kid-friendly version of MyPlate. With high rates of childhood obesity, it?s important for children to learn how to build a healthy plate,? said Melanie Nelson, President and CEO of Learning ZoneXpress.
Healthy food characters that are friendly and fun deliver the message of balancing food with physical activity. The new products from LZX, include:
New York (Vocus) June 8, 2010
The nutrition rock show Jump with Jill has reached 100,000 kids nationwide. This impressive milestone speaks to the show?s innovative approach to childhood obesity. Formatted as a kid-appropriate rock ?n roll concert with healthy eating choruses, Jump with Jill is an interactive live show that teaches nutrition through music and dance. The touring production has been performed over 600 times in the past four years. The program was developed by The Rockstar Nutritionist Jill Jayne, who is both a registered dietitian and musician. Kids can also rock out at home or in their parents? cars to the Jump with Jill soundtrack, Get Me Goin?.
?It?s time for health education to rock,” says Jayne. ”We know kids can remember commercial jingles, why not make learning about healthy habits as engaging and memorable? It?s imperative to sync our approach to health education with this media-centered generation if we hope to effectively and sustainably address childhood obesity.?
Along with the efforts of Jamie Oliver?s Food Revolution and Michelle Obama?s Let?s Move campaign, Jump with Jill and the Get Me Goin? CD address an urgent need to connect with kids when it comes to overall health, exercise and nutrition. Nationwide, 17 percent of kids are obese (BMI over the 95th percentile) and only one out of three kids meet basic fitness requirements. Kids spend nearly seven and a half hours per day consuming media, witnessing over 40,000 commercials per year, most of which encourage them to remain inactive and continue consuming. With all the noise, today?s media-savvy kids have become increasingly difficult to reach. Creator Jill Jayne uses the same tactics normally used to sell junk food to get kids engaged, moving and learning about healthy habits.
Both the CD and interactive show are productions of Note to Health, Jill?s company that specializes in creating and delivering interactive media about health to kids and families. Jill appears regularly in news outlets across the country, including Today’s Dietitian, NPR, The Washington Post and PBS. To learn more about the show, sample CD tunes or follow Jill?s blog, visit http://www.jumpwithjill.com .
About Note To Health
Note to Health, led by the Rockstar Nutritionist Jill Jayne, is a New York City-based company specializing in age-appropriate, interactive multimedia productions designed to teach kids about health. Note to Health currently offers three different nutrition education and entertainment productions: Jump with Jill, I Will Not Be Bought, and Jill & Jam. Jump with Jill is a live rock concert that teaches elementary students about nutrition through music. I Will Not Be Bought is an interactive, music-based performance for middle and high school students with a focus on the influence of advertising on body image and nutrition. Jill & Jam is a live, interactive show that gets preschoolers singing and dancing their way to healthier habits. Jill, President and Creative Director of Note to Health, is a musician and registered dietitian (RD) with a master?s degree in nutrition education from Columbia University, and a bachelor’s degree in nutrition and theater from Penn State University.
For more information on Jump with Jill, visit http://www.jumpwithjill.com .
To schedule an interview with Jill, contact Mark Jayne at mark(at)jumpwithjill(dot)com or (917) 497-4248.
Read this story online at http://notetohealth.com/onthebeat/2010/06/07/jumpwithjillmilestone/ .
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Wichita, Kan. (Vocus) May 28, 2009
When given the opportunity, kids can demonstrate their ability to literally “make” their own healthy choices. Students and classrooms in schools in New York, Ohio and two in Missouri won the seventh annual Healthy Kids Challenge Stirring Up Health? national recipe contest for middle school students.
Healthy Kids Challenge (HKC) is a national non-profit led by registered dietitians to educate kids and adults using simple, fun solutions for healthy lifestyles. As the national health care debate heats up, prevention education has been suggested to be an important part of the equation according to the health care industry.
Students from Patricia Skjodlahl’s family and consumer science class in Deer Park New York were one of the contest winners. Ms. Skjodlahl stated that programs applying real-world opportunities for students are invaluable.
“I’m thrilled that our students applied what we learn in the classroom about healthy eating,” said Skjodlahl. “I feel like I’m making a difference by educating students to make healthy and wise food choices that will impact their overall health in the future,” she said.
Middle school students across the country were invited to create healthy recipes and write essays that identified personal goals for better health. The winning students and schools were awarded a “Chef for a Day”, a school visit by a culinary arts chef from Johnson and Wales University. Classes enjoyed assisting in preparing the winning recipes and learning lessons about food skills for a healthy lifestyle. JWU is a world-class university where students have an opportunity to pursue a career education in business, hospitality, culinary arts, or technology. JWU maintains campuses in Providence, R.I., North Miami, Fla., Denver, Colo. and Charlotte, N.C. (http://www.jwu.edu).
The Stirring Up Health? recipe contest required the kids to use two ingredients, tortillas and cheese, to create their culinary masterpieces. Teachers were provided activities to assist their students in building advocacy for healthy eating and an active lifestyle. Sponsored by Cabot Creamery, Mission Foods and Johnson & Wales University, the annual contest is organized by Healthy Kids Challenge.
“Throughout the school year, we tested and changed recipes to make them healthier,” said Karen Werner, a food and consumer sciences teacher at Danby Rush Tower Middle School in Festus, Mo., one of the winning schools in the Healthy Kids Challenge Stirring Up Health? contest. “It was all quite a learning experience.”
“Mission Foods aims to increase awareness about the importance of physical activity and nutrition,” said Senior Marketing Director of Mission Foods, Tom Gray. “Through this contest, Mission can support its objective of helping students make a healthy difference in their lives.”
Sara Wing, Dietitian and Health Programs Manager for Cabot Creamery said, “We love that Healthy Kids Challenge promotes healthy eating by encouraging students to create healthy recipes and practice cooking skills. These are skills that will last students a lifetime.”
Healthy Kids Challenge Director, Vickie James, points out that, “Classroom and family entries we received from all over the country demonstrate how it is possible to motivate kids to make healthy choices – matching our motto of ‘Eat, Move, Enjoy Healthy Balance.’”
Healthy Kids Challenge was founded in 1998 to raise awareness and encourage healthy changes in eating and physical activity habits for youth and their families. The HKC focus for assistance is on positive self-esteem and healthy choices, rather than weight. HKC offers simple solutions for schools, communities, and industry to incorporate healthy eating and physical activity into daily life anywhere kids and families live, learn, work, and play. To learn more about Healthy Kids Challenge and view the winning recipes, visit http://www.healthykidschallenge.com.
About Mission Foods
Mission Foods, headquartered in Irving (Dallas area), Texas and Gruma S.A.B. de C.V., a Mexican corporation, was founded in 1949, and is one of the largest tortilla manufacturers in the United States. Gruma S.A. de C.V. is the parent company of Mission Foods (Gruma Corporation) and is a leading Mexican producer of corn masa flour and tortilla products. It has operations in Mexico, the United States, Central and South America, Europe and Asia. Mission has been a valuable partner for moms, creating simple yet healthy recipe ideas using tortillas. For more information and recipe ideas, visit Mission Foods’ at http://www.missionmenus.com.
About Cabot Creamery
Since its beginning in 1919, Cabot Creamery Cooperative has been dedicated to family and promoting community involvement. In fact, today 1400 farm families of Agri-Mark, the Northeast’s premier dairy cooperative, own Cabot, which is best known as makers of “The World’s Best Cheddar.” For additional information on Cabot Creamery, their education programs, recipes and more, visit http://www.cabotcheese.coop
Contact:
Healthy Kids Challenge
2 West Road 210
Dighton, KS 67839
Vickie L. James, HKC Director
888-259-6287 or 620-397-3901
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