Spotlight Program
Kids At Heart - Healthy Family Training Camp
Over 300 families from the Greater Cleveland community will be invited for a fun day of learning about ways to make healthy life-style changes through increased physical activity and a proper diet to ensure that today's generation of youth grows to be one of the healthiest.
Where: Brown's Training Facility in Berea
When: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 from 6:00 - 8:00pm
This event will have four core components:
The Schoolhouse ~ A place for families to have health screenings, talk to healthcare professionals, learn about CPR Anytime training, What Moves U and other educational opportunities.
The Playground ~ Interactive outdoor exercise demonstrations, Hoops for Heart, Jump Rope for Heart all focusing on ways to become more physically active outside.
The Healthy Home ~ Inter-active demonstrations will include ways for families to be healthy indoors: healthy cooking tips, indoor exercise options, and artistic ways to demonstrate healthy lifestyles.
The Locker Room ~ local sports celebrities will be presenting their tips for healthy kids, a meet and greet opportunity for families.
Why Our children are at risk. Adults aren't the only ones at risk for heart disease, stroke and other cardiovascular diseases: increasingly, kids are at risk too. Kids shouldn't have to worry about "adult"
problems like high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes and high cholesterol.
But due to the rise in childhood obesity, now they do.
1. Almost 1 in 5 American children are overweight or obese.
2. Overweight adolescents have a 70% chance of becoming overweight
adults. This increases to 80% if one or both parents are overweight or obese.
3. The American Heart Association is committed to stopping the
increase in childhood obesity by 2010 and reversing the trend - putting all young people on a road to good adult health - by 2015.
"If an answer to the (childhood) obesity epidemic is not found soon, the present generation of children will not live as long as their parents,"
4. - William Klish, M. K., Baylor College of Medicine
We need to Learn and Live....The American Heart Association is committed to helping our children live stronger, healthier lives with education, research and public policies that effect where they live and play.
For more information about this family fun event please contact Carol Metlicka at 216-619-5143 or email her at carol.metlicka@heart.org
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