'Amazing Race’ Health Fair for Kids Encourages Youngsters to Stay Active
Several kids jumped, ran and learned about health inside Walsh University’s Gaetano Checcini Gym and Fitness Center Thursday afternoon
Eleven-year-old Nicole Giordano knows certain foods are bad for you. Take butter, for instance. She can even tell you why it’s unhealthy. “Because it’s red,” Nicole said. Well, not literally. But she learned Thursday from Walsh University physical therapy students that foods fit into certain categories. The “stoplight diet,” as the students called it, groups food into categories of healthy (green), sort of healthy (yellow), or, like butter, not at all healthy (red). “We learned what foods are good to eat and what foods aren’t,” Nicole said inside Walsh University’s Gaetano Checcini Gym and Fitness Center Thursday. Walsh physical therapy students, as part of a service learning project, hosted the “Amazing Race” Health Fair for Kids. …
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Kymberli Hagelberg
11:23 am on Friday, April 8, 2011
Cool story. I need Nicole to follow me to the fridge! more ›