Better Nutrition for Kids Fundraising Program
A new CD-ROM interactive game which teaches kids the importance of good nutrition & how nutrition works is now available as a school fundraiser.
RELEASE AT WILL Contact in MICH/Bruce David
517-625-0356
bedavid@yahoo.com
949/455-2772 Dr. Kim Gebrosky
Better Nutrition for Kids Fundraising Program Now in MI
Studies have shown that being physically fit at a young age provides an opportunity for children
to become more interactive socially, as well as academically.
Kids these days while away their leisure time in the sedentary company of video games, and computers. They spend on average over 20 hours a week watching television. At school, little or no time is set aside for recess or physical education, but soda and candy machines -and, amazingly, sometimes even on-site fast food chains - are available at many facilities. Given their overall lack of exercise and unhealthy diets, is it really any wonder that obesity is a growing problem in American children?
Last year, William Dietz, director of nutrition at the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), described obesity in children as "an epidemic in the US the likes of which we have not had before in chronic disease." The number of obese youngsters (generally defined as being over 20 percent overweight) has doubled in the last 20 years. As many as one-in-three American children is overweight, or at risk of becoming so.
| | - Kim Gebrosky is very interested in better nutrition for kids and has created a 3-D animated CD game to help kids learn about nutrition.
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| | - addition to educating kids on how to become healthier through nutrition, the CD game provides schools and other organizations with a fund raising tool. The school receives $5 for each CD sold. (CDs sell for $19.95) and they dont have to wait for a check, they deduct their profit before sending in the proceeds.
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Kids who participate in the game can get a treasure chest of prizes once theyve completed the game. The game is in a number of different levels and children must succeed in each section before being allowed to proceed to additional sequences.
Cities such as Philadelphia and Houston have already endorsed the program to help curb obesity in their respective cities.
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