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Thursday, June 01, 2006
Share your JRFH/HFH story
Tell us what makes JRFH and HFH worth doing, about a special moment or a great event, etc.
2 comments:
Anonymous
said...
Each year we try to honor a local person who has had successful heart surgery within the past year. We jump in honor of that person. Before the event, the person's picture and heart story is published in our local newspaper. We have jumped in memory of persons also. The honored person attends the event, if possible and makes a few comments to the students.
My daughter recently participated in this at her school in Grayson KY-Prichard Elementary. I thinks it's wonderful and we really stress health w/ our kids, w/ moderation of course. My main concern was that the kids were served cookies and orange pop for a snack while participating. The childhood obesity rate along w/ diabetes here is terrible. Those are 2 major risk factors for heart disease. I'd really like the AHA to make sure kids are served something healthy-apples, raisins, grapes, water, juice, milk. I think rewarding them for doing a healthy activity w/ really bad junk food sends them the wrong message.
2 comments:
Each year we try to honor a local person who has had successful heart surgery within the past year. We jump in honor of that person. Before the event, the person's picture and heart story is published in our local newspaper. We have jumped in memory of persons also. The honored person attends the event, if possible and makes a few comments to the students.
My daughter recently participated in this at her school in Grayson KY-Prichard Elementary. I thinks it's wonderful and we really stress health w/ our kids, w/ moderation of course. My main concern was that the kids were served cookies and orange pop for a snack while participating. The childhood obesity rate along w/ diabetes here is terrible. Those are 2 major risk factors for heart disease. I'd really like the AHA to make sure kids are served something healthy-apples, raisins, grapes, water, juice, milk. I think rewarding them for doing a healthy activity w/ really bad junk food sends them the wrong message.
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