Three young authors read their original essays to a gathering of more than 100 NYC after-school site coordinators and other program leaders at a TASC Peer Conference last week after winning a contest, sponsored by TASC, to write the most persuasive essays on the topic of what their New York City after-school programs mean to them.
Dawon Thomas, a third grader at PS 85, wrote, \\\"Mr. Pat has a club called Building Healthy Communities where you get to know about diabetes, healthy snacks and why exercise is so important for your body. We did a walk marathon in our community. It was a great experience, and I will ask Mr. Pat if we can do it again next year.\\\"
FIT Kids
HealthCorps will join Richard Simmons and New York City Councilman Tony Avella at New York City Hall for a pep rally to promote standards for physical education in schools. The pep rally begins at 12:30 p.m. on June 19th. Michelle Bouchard, President of HealthCorps will speak on the HealthCorps program.
New York Times Recipes for Health
This series offers recipes with an eye towards empowering you to cook healthy meals every day. Produce, seasonal and locally grown when possible, and a well-stocked pantry are the linchpins of a good diet, and accordingly, each week’s recipes will revolve around a particular type of produce or a pantry item. This is food that is vibrant and light, full of nutrients but by no means ascetic, fun to cook and a pleasure to eat. Find the story at:
http://www.nytimes.c...dnutrition
Share your own smoothie combination and join the discussion below.
May is National Physical Fitness and Sports Month. Being physically fit is important. It creates happier, healthier and more productive lives. You can get involved by promoting awareness about the importance of being active and healthy.
There are many different ways you can be involved in National Physical Fitness and Sports Month. Start small, encourage your class/school to incorporate more fitness activities during the day. You can join a sports team or start one of your own. Get the whole school involved and help plan a Physical Fitness Day for everyone.
The President’s Council on Physical Fitness & Sports encourages young people to get involved on a larger scale and help plan a fitness event that the whole community can benefit from. This takes time and planning, but with the help of your school and the community, you can create a very successful event.
Here is how to get started:
1 - Form a group at school that will help plan the event and will reach out to local community organizations for additional help
2 – Once you have interest from the community, form an event planning team
3 – Make a schedule to have weekly meetings and assign jobs for each member
4 – Pick a venue and a date
5 – Start doing some fundraising and soliciting from local organizations to donate things for the event (i.e. food, water, equipment, etc)
6 – Reach out to fitness organizations to have them participate in the event
7 – Come up with a schedule for the day of the event and follow up to secure all details for the event
8 – Promote the event
Event ideas:
- Health and Fitness Fair
- Fitness Festival
- Fitness Talks/Films/Trainings
- Walk/Marathon
- Sports All Day
"Eat This Not That" articles on the Men’s Health website teaches kids and adults about choosing good and nutritious foods. They suggest healthier alternatives to popular foods we love to enjoy.
One popular food that kids love is ice cream. Eat This Not That shows which ice cream treats are less fattening and which ones you should avoid. Check out the whole site for the inside scoop on better food choices!
DID YOU SEE THE MOVIE SUPER SIZE ME ,WELL IF YOU DIDN T BOY YOU ARE MISSING A HOLE LOT OF INFORMATION.THE MOVIE SUPER SIZE ME IS SOO INTERESTING YOU SEE VERY COOL THINGS. THE MOVIE IS ABOUT A MAN WHO WEIGHTS 185 AND A HALFAND HE IS TOLLTALLY SKINNY AND THAN THE NEXT THING YOU KNOW IT BY THE END OF THE MOVIE HE IS FAT AND WEGHS 205 POUNDS .WELL I KNOW YOU ARE INTERESTING AND YOU WANT TO KNOW ABOUT THE STORY SO I AM GOING TO TELL YOU SO YOU WON T HAVE TO WORRIE.THE MOVIE SUPER SIZE FIRST STARTS OUT SKINNY INTIL HE DICIDES TO TELL US THAT HE IS WANTS TO SHOW US WHAT WILL HAPPENT WHEN YOU EAT MC DONOLDS FOR breackfast,lunch and dinner FOR 30 DAYS.NO DO YOU GET HE POINT WHY HE TURNS FAT .ONCE HE GETS TO DAY 25 HE WEIGHTS 197 POUNDS .THAT MEANS HE GAINS A HOLE LOT MORE OF POUNDS . THAT IS AMAZION,RIGHT.NOW HE OBESADY FAT WITCH IS VERY SAD.
On Saturday, April 25th, TASC and Children for Children (CFC) held the second BHC Walk-a-Thon and Health Fair for Global Youth Service Day event at the Jackie Robinson Park in Harlem.
Thanks to all the New York sites who came out and participated that day!
The weather was beautiful and 157 youth walked to raise money for the American Diabetes Foundation then danced, jumped and played relay games.
Participants, staff and parents came from 9 BHC programs. Sites were: New Settlement After-School PS 64, EIT After-School PS 59, NYC Mission Society, Spring Creek PS 346, Good Shepherd PS 79, Leap PS 163, Good Shepherd PS 246, Alianza Dominicana IS 143, and SQPA PS 118.
We would like to recognize our wonderful partners who made this event a huge success! Special thanks to the American Diabetes Association, State Farm Insurance (donated water), Harlem YMCA, The Greater Harlem Chamber of Commerce/HARLEM WEEK, Harlem Hospital Center, and the Jackie Robinson Recreation Center.
Find out if you or a loved one are at risk for diabetes by taking the FREE Diabetes Risk Test. Call 1-800-DIABETES or visit http://www.diabetes.org/alert .
Knowing which foods to eat is the first step in creating a nutritional diet, but you also need to know how much food to consume. Overloading your plate, living on seconds and eating until you are stuffed can lead to excess calorie, fat and cholesterol intake. Even portions served in resturants are often much more than anyone needs. To keep calories down, keep track of the number of servings you eat and use proper serving sizes to help control your intake.
Check out some useful portion size tools for you and your students at:
Great Article from the NYTimes. Here is an excerpt:
The best way to improve children’s performance in the classroom may be to take them out of it.
New research suggests that play and down time may be as important to a child’s academic experience as reading, science and math, and that regular recess, fitness or nature time can influence behavior, concentration and even grades.
A study published this month in the journal Pediatrics studied the links between recess and classroom behavior among about 11,000 children age 8 and 9. Those who had more than 15 minutes of recess a day showed better behavior in class than those who had little or none. Although disadvantaged children were more likely to be denied recess, the association between better behavior and recess time held up even after researchers controlled for a number of variables, including sex, ethnicity, public or private school and class size.
i had saw lot of people eating in Mc.Ds the be asking for lot of bad food i ben trying to tell them to buy there slad but they dont maybe one or two who do it but the rest dont
Heart disease remains the #1 cause of death in the United States, killing about half a million people each year--closely followed by Stoke and Diabetes--all obesity related diseases.
Coronary heart disease used to be thought of as a disease of the middle aged and the elderly. Over the last twenty years it has become increasingly clear that atherosclerosis – damage to arteries from fatty buildup begins in childhood. The fact remains, the best time to make changes is now.
Teachers and parents can help by making sure kids spend at least 60 minutes a day in active play, make wise food choices, and avoid exposure to secondhand smoke.
Grant: UnitedHealth HEROES - For youth-led community education projects about obesity prevention and health in Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, Indiana, Maryland, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina and Tennessee, and in specific parts of Florida, Illinois and New York.
Funder: UnitedHealth.
Eligibility: Teachers, service-learning coordinators and youths.
The proposal is online and not too difficult if you can explain your project. Consider a SouperBowl tailgate party at the school or parent night, a health fair, a culminating event healthy food taste tasting, a PSA, other ideas? Please comment...
USDA recommends 5 servings of fruits and vegetables a day, which for many of us can be a big challenge, while at the same time trying to cut from the Fats, Oils and Sweets group OR the Bread, Cereal, Rice and Pasta Group
- 1 cup green salad.......... is a fist or a tennis ball
- 1 baked potato.......... is a fist or a tennis ball
- 3/4 cup tomato juice.......... is a small Styrofoam cup
- 1/2 cup cooked broccoli.......... is a scoop of ice cream or a light bulb
- 1/2 cup serving.......... is 6 asparagus spears/7 or 8 baby carrots/1 ear of corn
The Fruit Group
- 1/2 cup of grapes (15 grapes).......... is a light bulb
- 1/2 cup of fresh fruit..........is 7 cotton balls
- 1 medium size fruit .......... is a fist or a tennis ball
- 1 cup of cut-up fruit.......... is a fist or a tennis ball
- 1/4 cup raisins.......... is a large egg or a golf ball
Healthy Snacks
Fruit and veggie snacks are a great way to reach nutrition goals, get a bit of energy and curb hunger. See our posting below for a fantastic suggestions for tasty and healthy snacks (http://buildhealth.w...these-out/) and celebratory foods!
Recipe: oven roasted carrot fries
This is another way to have super vitamin A rich snacks or side. If you have access to the school kitchen, or can get help from the cafeteria staff, consider providing this snack for students:
Ingredients
12 carrots
3 tablespoons good olive oil
1 1/4 teaspoons kosher salt
1/2 teaspoons freshly ground black pepper
2 tablespoons minced fresh dill or parsley
Directions
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.
If the carrots are thick, cut them in half lengthwise; if not, leave whole. Slice the carrots diagonally in 1 1/2-inch-thick slices. (The carrots will shrink while cooking so make the slices big.) Toss them in a bowl with the olive oil, salt, and pepper. Transfer to a sheet pan in 1 layer and roast in the oven for 20 minutes, until browned and tender.
Toss the carrots with minced dill or parsley, season to taste, and serve.
Some reviewers noted that it worked best when all carrots were the same thickness for even cooking, and some liked theirs cooked for 30 mins to carmelize. Martha Stewart makes hers with a lemon/honey sauce (http://www.marthaste...n-dressing) which will make the dish appealing to those who think they don't even like carrots.
BHC Recipe Exchange
BHC is building a website that will have a recipe exchange. If you or your students have some recipes to share, please send in to jferguson@tascorp.org to get our recipe exchange started.
DID YOU SEE THE MOVIE SUPER SIZE ME ,WELL IF YOU DIDN T BOY YOU ARE MISSING A HOLE LOT OF INFORMATION.THE MOVIE SUPER SIZE ME IS SOO INTERESTING YOU SEE VERY COOL THINGS. THE MOVIE IS ABOUT A MAN WHO WEIGHTS 185 AND A HALFAND HE IS TOLLTALLY SKINNY AND THAN THE NEXT THING YOU KNOW IT BY THE END OF THE MOVIE HE IS FAT AND WEGHS 205 POUNDS .WELL I KNOW YOU ARE INTERESTING AND YOU WANT TO KNOW ABOUT THE STORY SO I AM GOING TO TELL YOU SO YOU WON T HAVE TO WORRIE.THE MOVIE SUPER SIZE FIRST STARTS OUT SKINNY INTIL HE DICIDES TO TELL US THAT HE IS WANTS TO SHOW US WHAT WILL HAPPENT WHEN YOU EAT MC DONOLDS FOR breackfast,lunch and dinner FOR 30 DAYS.NO DO YOU GET HE POINT WHY HE TURNS FAT .ONCE HE GETS TO DAY 25 HE WEIGHTS 197 POUNDS .THAT MEANS HE GAINS A HOLE LOT MORE OF POUNDS . THAT IS AMAZION,RIGHT.NOW HE OBESADY FAT WITCH IS VERY SAD.
ive seen the movie super size me and that should teach you all about the bad things you eat in your food. I justed learned from thet one movie to at healthy fruites and vegatables even if they taste bad.So remember enjoy your food the healthy way!
the movie supersize me was the best movie i seen well kinda it was good i had alot of fun watching it and we did a lot of things it was so fun if you seen the movie plaese write me and we will talk more about!!!janiece I WOULD LOVE TO SPEACK TO NYREE .i think you a very nice person.pleae write back thanks janiece
Turkey, mashed potatoes, rice and beans, plantain... you may get a little 'stuffed' this season, and just in time for the holidays, The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene have launched their Calorie Education Campaign online. This is the site's Recommended Calorie Intake Chart for Men, Women and Children.
I recommend using it in addition to a personalized calorie plan found through How Stuff Works.com's Calorie Calculator (http://nutrition.abo...lguide.htm). The Calculator is a personalized tool that can show you exactly how many calories it takes for you to reach your ideal weight.
With all the extra calorie intake this season, it makes perfect sense to pay extra attention to health and wellness. No wonder November is National Diabetes Awareness Month, and in the name of cohesive partnership, Diabetes month shares its spotlight with a number of related health diseases, including Diabetic Eye Disease, (Diabetes can damage small blood vessels in the eye over time, resulting in permanent vision loss), Diabetic Retinopathy (which is the cause of most new cases of blindness in the United States today), and Diabetic foot health issues (complications from Diabetes can occur in feet due to long-term damage to small blood vessels and nerves in the extremities. Regular foot screenings are a necessary part of good diabetes care and can help detect small changes before they turn serious.) (Taken from: http://diabetes.abou...health.htm)
PS 64x in Bronx, NY did their part to bring awareness to the battle against Diabetes. After hosting a guest speaker from the American Diabetes Association (http://www.diabetes.org/), New Settlement Site Coordinator, Madeline Rosario, motivated her entire after-school program to take action. Working together with the ADA's School Walk for Diabetes Program (http://schoolwalk.diabetes.org), students created awareness t-shirt, sashes, and hats which they dawned as they walked from their school to Bronx Lebanon Hospital and back chanting "Help End Diabetes" on Friday, November 14th. Students have a few days after the event to collect their final donations which will help the ADA in their goal toward finding a cure for the disease.
Healthy snacking and healthy food at celebrations and "bake sales" can be especially challenging in after-school programming. In reviewing the new resource for after-school programs: Healthy Kids, Healthy New York Initiative Toolkit (http://www.nyshepa.o...hykids.php)"Healthy Snacks for Kids" on p. 52 stood out (see below).
Check out the toolkit for other useful ideas. In addition, your NY licensed after-school program that implements the guidelines can apply to receive formal recognition from the Governor's Office in the spring.
NUTRITION Fact Sheet
25 Easy, Tasty (and Healthy) Snacks
When a snack attack strikes, refuel with these nutrition-packed snacks.
1. Peel a banana and dip it in yogurt. Roll in crushed cereal and freeze.
2. Spread celery sticks with peanut butter or low-fat cream cheese. Top with raisins. Enjoy your "ants on a log."
3. Stuff a whole-grain pita pocket with ricotta cheese and Granny Smith apple slices. Add a dash of cinnamon.
4. Mix together ready-to-eat cereal, dried fruit and nuts in a sandwich bag for an on the-go snack.
5. Smear a scoop of frozen yogurt on two graham crackers and add sliced banana to make a yummy sandwich.
6. Top low-fat vanilla yogurt with crunchy granola and sprinkle with blueberries.
7. Microwave a small baked potato. Top with reduced-fat cheddar cheese and salsa.
8. Make snack kabobs. Put cubes of low-fat cheese and grapes on pretzel sticks.
9. Toast a whole grain waffle and top with low-fat yogurt and sliced peaches.
10. Spread peanut butter on apple slices.
11. Blend low-fat milk, frozen strawberries and a banana for thirty seconds for a delicious smoothie.
12. Make a mini-sandwich with tuna or egg salad on a dinner roll.
13. Sprinkle grated Monterey Jack cheese over a corn tortilla; fold in half and microwave for twenty seconds. Top with salsa.
14. Toss dried cranberries and chopped walnuts in instant oatmeal.
15. Mix together peanut butter and cornflakes in a bowl. Shape into balls and roll in crushed graham crackers.
16. Microwave a cup of tomato or vegetable soup and enjoy with whole grain crackers.
17. Fill a waffle cone with cut-up fruit and top with low-fat vanilla yogurt.
18. Sprinkle grated Parmesan Cheese on hot popcorn.
19. Banana Split: Top a banana with low-fat vanilla and strawberry frozen yogurt. Sprinkle with your favorite whole-grain cereal.
20. Sandwich Cut-Outs: Make a sandwich on whole grain bread. Cut out your favorite shape using a big cookie cutter. Eat the fun shape and the edges, too!
21. Spread mustard on a flour tortilla. Top with a slice of turkey or ham, low-fat cheese and lettuce. Then roll it up.
22. Mini Pizza: Toast an English muffin, drizzle with pizza sauce and sprinkle with low-fat mozzarella cheese.
23. Rocky Road: Break a graham cracker into bite-size pieces. Add to low-fat chocolate pudding along with a few miniature marshmallows.
24. Inside-Out Sandwich: Spread mustard on a slice of deli turkey. Wrap around a sesame breadstick.
25.Parfait: Layer vanilla yogurt and mandarin oranges or blueberries in a tall glass. Top with a sprinkle of granola.
DIP IT! BONUS SNACKS
Dip baby carrots and cherry tomatoes in low-fat ranch dressing.
Dip strawberries or apple slices in low-fat yogurt.
Dip pretzels in mustard.
Dip pita chips in hummus.
Dip graham crackers in applesauce.
Dip baked tortilla chips in bean dip.
Dip animal crackers in low-fat pudding.
Dip bread sticks in salsa.
Dip a granola bar in low-fat yogurt.
Dip mini-toaster waffles in cinnamon applesauce.
Now that you are refueled, take a trip to Planet Power. Play the MyPyramid Blast Off game at http://www.mypyramid.gov.
What's your most valuable source of good nutrition? Registered Dietitians are the experts when it comes to helping people eat well and stay healthy. An RD has theknowledge and expertise to develop an eating plan to meet the needs of all individuals.
isnt it good that they list the recipy if thet didnt than we wouldn t kno how to make this yummy food and the things they include in it thats cool.some day i am going to learn how to make this without no mistakes than it might come out how they made it,well not as good.don t you kno eating mc donolds are not good i kno the food is good but all the grease is not good because it damiges your body.truse me because i like mc donolds but i kno its not good for me .after seening super size me i knew that i couldn t eat mcdonlds no more thats why i dont eat it no more because that will make me fat and i dont like fat.so remember as much as we like mc donolds we have to kno thats its not good for you.its good to eat it once in a blue moon but more than 5 times is not good!!well if you want to mc donolds i your choice just remember that its not good for you remember how you look now and when you dont with mc donolds look at your body maybe you will see the differents in you,if you want to stay healthy stay away from mcdonolds.
BHC is an after-school activity taking place in NYC, Philly, and NJ schools after school. In celebration and support of after-school programs and funding, The Empire State Building will be lit up in yellow again this year for the 9th annual Lights On Afterschool-- October 16, 2008. 1 million Americans will participate in 7,500+ Lights On Afterschool celebrations across the nation. Don't be left out help get the word out about after-school... color a lightbulb with healthy fruits and vegetables to send to elected officials in the month of October. Elected official info and lightbulb cut-outs available on the Afterschool Alliance web site:
