“Kids in the Kitchen event at Riverside Plaza teaches about healthy food (The Press-Enterprise)” plus 2 more

Kids in the Kitchen event at Riverside Plaza teaches about healthy food (The Press-Enterprise)
Former NFL Star Teaches Kids Healthy Habits (WFMY News 2 Greensboro)
Send your kids to grandma camp this summer (Erie Times-News)

Kids in the Kitchen event at Riverside Plaza teaches about healthy food (The Press-Enterprise)

Posted: 14 Mar 2010 01:20 AM PST

Hundreds of children and their parents smiled as they saw healthy cooking demonstrations, a gymnastics exhibition and games related to food choices Saturday at the Fifth Annual Kids in the Kitchen event at the Riverside Plaza.

Allisha Frederique, a Riverside Poly High junior who served as a volunteer, expressed concern after playing a game about healthy and unhealthy food with two overweight children.

Allisha was one of more than 50 volunteers working at the event that organizers hoped would draw 700 people. About 300 took part in a fun run that started the day, according to Debbie Caudill, spokeswoman for the Junior League Service Organization that put on the event.

"Our goal is to bring to the forefront that kids have choices as to what they eat, to make sure they think about what's good for the body, what's good for the long run," said Caudill.

Allisha, a fit and trim 17-year-old, said she is a vegetarian because of her mother's influence.

"I eat vegetables and tofu and whatever is not meat," Allisha said. "If you want to eat meat, I'm not saying there's anything wrong with it. I decided lettuce is good, too."

For the children who passed her booth, Allisha held up cards with pictures of foods that are healthy like fruits and what's unhealthy like cheeseburgers. Children picked which category the pictured food belonged under, good or not good.

"They know their stuff," Allisha said, "They have a good idea. I'm learning children can need guidance."

Allisha said she is concerned about all overweight children and their future.

"I think of when I get older and I have children, what if they are overweight and what can I do to prevent them from being overweight," Allisha said.

Riverside residents Ryan Ward, 20, and Sienna Martinez, 13, dazzled the crowd with an acrobatic gymnastics demonstration.

"They were awesome," said Vince Bueno, of Riverside. "They're really talented. It helps to have good nutrition to perform like that."

Ward said gymnastics helped save his life when he developed Type 1 diabetes as an 11-year-old. He said he was so fit from gymnastics that he did not have to be hospitalized when he first became diabetic.

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Former NFL Star Teaches Kids Healthy Habits (WFMY News 2 Greensboro)

Posted: 13 Mar 2010 09:31 PM PST

Some Triad groups are helping kids develop healthier lifestyles to lower our state's obesity levels.

They joined former NFL star Allen Rossum for a mobile health for kids event in Winston-Salem.

There were activities to show kids how to make healthy snacks, and the ten minute "instant recesses" are games for the kids that can be done at school or home for a boost of energy.

"We sneak up on you with the physical activity and you don't even know you've done it until it's over," said Melicia Whitt-Glover, CEO of Gramercy Research Group.

Parents got involved, too, showing that healthy living is something the whole family should be committed to.

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Send your kids to grandma camp this summer (Erie Times-News)

Posted: 13 Mar 2010 09:15 PM PST

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