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Covenant Health System and the Junior League of Lubbock will host the annual Kids in the Kitchen event Saturday, March 6 from 10 a.m. - noon at the Covenant Knipling Education Conference Center (21st Street and Louisville Avenue, sixth floor).
The event, for children ranging from 2 to 11 years of age, is free and open to the public. The theme for the 2010 Kids in the Kitchen event is “Healthy Kids are Dino-mite!”
Area children are invited to dine with the dinosaurs and devour healthy choices. Throughout the morning, children will visit six different stations:
- Snack with Stegosaurus: Healthy Recipe
- Pterodactyl Dig: Healthy Recipe
- Training with T-Rex: Exercise Activity with a Fitness Expert
- Building Healthy Communities with Brontosaurus: Pay it Forward Activity
- Pleasing Mom with Plesiosaurus: Table Manners and Laughter Yoga
- Triceratops Tips for Healthy Eating: Science
Don’t be extinct! To register, call 1.866.4COVENANT.
Junior Leagues’ Kids in the Kitchen is an association-wide initiative of The Association of Junior Leagues International (AJLI) designed to help communities address the urgent issues surrounding childhood obesity and poor nutrition. The program was launched in 2006 by Junior Leagues in more than 225 communities.
Statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found 80 percent of children who were overweight at age 10 - 15 years were obese adults at age 25. The CDC also reports nearly one-third of children and adolescents in the United States are overweight or at risk of becoming overweight.
Parents can take the first step to stop that trend by bringing their children to the Kids in the Kitchen event.
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