For Kids

Ok, you're the one living in your body. You know better than anyone else how it feels there, and how you'd like it to feel. This website has ideas that you may want to use, maybe on your own, maybe with friends. Up to you.

Other areas of this site that may interest you:

Use Your Power

You shouldn't feel you're stuck forever with the wrong food choices at the cafeteria, lack of sports and physical activities in school, or poor gym facilities. There are ways for you to get things to change. Do you have what it takes to take the lead?

Monthly Challenge

Can you do it? Should you do it? Will you do it? We'll see...

Cool Games

Warning. These are definitely not for everyone. Think before trying.

Think Your Drink

Do you know how much sugar is in that soda or juice?

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Lead the Change for Your Future

Are you ready to get serious about your health and the health of your friends? Do you get frustrated with the food choices served in your school cafeteria?

If want to make a difference at your school the Alliance for a Healthier Generation has the tools you need. Check the link below and before you know if you'll be ready to:

  • Ask your peers to sign a petition requesting healthier food options at your school.
  • Use your school newspaper, newsletter, and/or bulletin boards to help raise awareness about healthy eating and physical activity.
  • Find out what other students in your school like to eat and what new foods they would like to see in the cafeteria.
  • Talk to your school food service department and your physical education and health teachers to find out what is being done to increase physical activity and improve access to fruits and veggies. Share ideas with them on what else could be done.

Visit the Alliance for a Healthier Generation to get more involved.

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Monthly Challenge

We dare you to take our MetroWest Monthly Challenge!

Monthly Challenge:

September

Welcome to a new school year! While the weather is still warm get outside and play for an hour a day!

 

Email your story at the end of the month. And don't forget to check back every month for a new Challenge!

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Cool Games

Check out these sites for cool games, fun activities and free downloads! Share them with your friends and have fun!

  1. Nutrition Explorations (National Dairy Council)
  2. BAM, Body and Mind (Center for Disease Control)
  3. Powerful Girls Have Powerful Bones (Center for Disease Control)

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Think Your Drink

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Find out how much sugar is in your favorite beverage.

What you'll need:

  • Beverage bottles with labels
  • Pen or pencil
  • Sugar
  • Measuring Spoons
  • Paper cups or bowls

Look at your label and record:

Number of servings in your can or bottle:  
The grams of sugar per serving:g

Calculate:

Total grams of sugar:
(number of servings X number grams of sugar per serving)		 g
Teaspoons of sugar:
(divide total grams of sugar by 4)		 tsp

See it with your own eyes!

Use your measuring spoons to measure out the number of teaspoons of sugar in your drink. Place sugar in cup or bowl.

So, now what do you think about your drink?

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