Healthy Habits for Kids Pushed in Oklahoma

[Rose Siding]

TULSA, Okla. -- Grants from the American Heart Association are helping give pre-kindergarten children healthy habits.
In the pilot program aimed at area preschools, Head Start and day-care programs, the children are taught the importance of nutrition and physical fitness.

The Childhood Prevention Project is administered by the Oklahoma Caring Foundation, an arm of Blue Cross and Blue Sheild of Oklahoma.
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The foundation used research from Oklahoma State University and OSU-Tulsa to create a curriculum of nutrition and physical activity exercises at no cost to several participating centers.
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For the physical activity portion of the program, the group provided 40 activity cards to instructors. Each card contains instructions for an engaging exercise to keep kids moving, Lindaman said.

Pam Thirion, counselor at Helen Paul Learning Center in Catoosa, said children go home with information about health and nutrition for their parents.

"It at least exposes them some to some information about nutrition. (Children) don't get to buy the food, so it's kind of out of their hands. What they eat is what is put in front of them," she said. "Hopefully, (nutrition) will become habit."

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-fit-nutrition-grant,0,7946510.story?coll=sns-ap-nationworld-headlines

hmmm...ins companies administering a program that provides cards telling HS teachers how to keep kids moving. OK must be doing ok.

[MountainLaurel]

1. Then they get to first grade

Where they have no recess and PE class only once a week because that is time that would otherwise take away from preparing for standardized exams.

[Krupskaya]

2. And the food companies are in the classroom

....paying for product placement.

Two months ago my kindergartner told me what brand of chicken to buy, because the chicken that had come "to talk about food" was the corporate logo of that brand.

We don't even BUY chicken! But it worked on him! :mad

[MountainLaurel]

3. Grrrrr

A lot of companies are doing this under the guise of "supporting education."

[MidwestTransplant]

4. I hope they will do something about the "rampant lesbianism"

in high schools....At least Colburn said there was.

[Anakin Skywalker]

5. Hah Hah!

Good sarcasm there. I too, won't forget the ridiculousness of what Colburn said. :)

[420inTN]

6. I wish that there had been rampant lesbianism in my High School. ;-) n/t