Children's Health & Fitness ? Educating Families On Childhood ...

July 2nd, 2012 by Len Saunders

From KPBS?..

One Wednesday afternoon toward the end of May, the cafeteria at Rice Elementary School in Chula Vista was packed. Parents filled rows of seats for a cooking demonstration conducted in Spanish. The menu included fruit smoothies, a chicken salad and other quick, healthy foods kids are likely to enjoy.

The demonstration was part of the school?s first annual wellness fair. Fairs like it have been happening across the Chula Vista Elementary School District over the past year. In 2010 the district measured students? height and weight. They found that in some schools up to 40 percent of the students were overweight or obese. Rice was one of those schools.

Now the whole school community is undergoing a health-focused transformation. They?re doing it in part with the help of doctors from the nearby Chula Vista Family Clinic.

One facet of their partnership has been helping adults model healthy behaviors for students, according to Dr. Shaila Serpas, who leads the partnership for the clinic.

?Rice was sort of a trial in how do we really support staff wellness and allowing staff to determine how to do that but then providing them support,? she said. ?One example was they were looking for quick healthy recipes. Many of them with children

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