KidFit helps with childhood obesity
Friday, July 14, 2006
The Suburban Athletic Club of Framingham is proud to announce KidFit, a bold new program to rid our community of the problems of childhood obesity and inactivity. The mission if KidFit is to teach children the essentials and important of a healthy lifestyle as they adopt eating and fitness habits better associated with healthy living. The program emphasizes weight loss and weight control, proper and healthy nutrition and eating habits, and the important of being physically active in order to be healthy, fit and happy long into the future.
Open to children 5-15, KidFit participants attend the club twice a week for one hour each visit Over the weekend, participants also have the option for a third day to use the Club's fitness facilities, basketball/soccer are and Olympic-size swimming pool. The centerpiece of the program is the KidFit Center, comprised of kid-friendly, non-traditional, cutting edge fitness equipment and movement materials. The equipment (22 stations) integrates exercise and physical activity within a computerized virtual reality and interactive environment. Children also have access to the vast facilities of the 75,000 sq. feet of the Club.
A week rarely goes by without newspapers, journals, TV, teachers and community officials reporting on the growing problem of childhood obesity and inactivity. As reported by the Surgeon General, the problem has reached epidemic proportions among all population groups, but particular hard hit are children, where currently one child in five is overweight. The KidFit program has been developed to help change the lives of many of our communities' children.
For more information call Julie Wingate, center director, at 508-879-6544 or email her at
jwingate@suburbanathletic.com. The club's Web site is
www.suburbanathletic.com.
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