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Local Students Learn to Make Healthy Choices

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Contributed by: Kathy Loidolt on 5/5/2008

Local author Kathy teaches kids about making healthy choices.

As research demonstrates that healthy changes to diet in schools and prisons reaps up to a 30% reduction in behavior incidents, author Kathy Loidolt gives kids a fighting chance. Loidolt was at Monument Charter Academy this week teaching kids about the ingredients in the foods we eat and helping them make healthy choices. Loidolt suggests that kids today are being sold a bill of goods about the chemicals and poisons in the food we eat, much like the cigarette companies did by keeping the health dangers of cigarettes from the public years ago.

The kids learned that free radicals are molecules missing an electron that latch onto our healthy cells and induce unhealthy changes, that partially hydrogenated oils are what allows food to last for years on the pantry shelf and keeps these same foods from breaking down in our bodies. Students were also alerted to the aluminum in table salt and tortillas and were clued in to why soda pop is nicknamed 'osteoporosis in a can' and that we should avoid color dyes to prevent ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) symptoms from being aggravated.

Kids' eyes grew wide as they passed around Loidolt's two-and-a-half year old french fries that look almost as good as the day they were bought. They look so good, two people actually took a bite before realizing how old they were! The old, gross looking potatoes and carrots gave kids the willies and many didn't want to touch the old aging vegetables, but Loidolt explained that food is suppose to break down, mold and go bad so our bodies can utilize the nutrients for food.

Loidolt brought many samples of delicious organic food to give kids the chance to see if they liked the healthy alternatives to fast, processed foods. The fear factor challenges highlighted the session with kids drinking fish oil and green drinks and eating raw garlic all of which are foods and drinks that Loidolt encourages kids to eat to improve their health. Local health food stores, parents and teachers have reported that the one hour sessoin has changed the way these kids see food and is encouraging school age kids to make healthy choices.

To have Loidolt talk at your school or event, call 488-1015 or visit her website at www.Shopper'sGuideToHealthyLiving.com.

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Kathy Loidolt

Monument , CO

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