Nutrition / Healthy Lifestyle Education Classes

In order to combat the childhood obesity epidemic, our Registered Dietitian and Health Education Manager developed a series of nutrition/healthy lifestyle education classes presented to children in their classrooms at 4 schools in San Jose, CA. These classes consist of learning how to fuel your body by choosing healthy food options, the importance of physical activity, the risk factors of obesity, how to read food labels, and taking responsibility for your choices. The classes include demonstrations and lots of interaction.

Initially when the classes were developed, we hoped to reach between 200-300 children. These classes have been so successful and the requests for them so numerous, that we were able to reach over 1200 children in the 2009-2010 school year. For the upcoming 2010-2011 school year, we are adding four more schools and additional staff to cover the requests. In addition, parents are requesting classes and several classes have been done for them as well.