I'm sitting my lazy butt here at Starbuck's "celebrating" the first day of school...BY MY SELF...and, LOVING every second of it :) Point being, that I'm happily getting side-tracked by looking up some information to share with you guys on kicking off the CFNE Kids Paleo Challenge. Here's what my current CGEO website: http://everydaypaleo.com/. This one is just a great all-around site for those of us following the Paleo way-of-life, and is written by a woman (I don't even know her name) who is not only a CrossFit coach and mother of three, but literally writes the words that have came out of my mouth for years! It's like I've found my Paleo soul-sister. Crazy.More specifically, here are a couple of links that are specific to kids and how to make the day-to-day actually work:
http://everydaypaleo.com/2010/01/31/food-for-kids-what-to-pack-for-lunch-quick-breakfast-and-more/?show=gallery
http://everydaypaleo.com/2010/08/23/news-my-kid-vs-the-food-pyramid-easy-steak-skewers-and-avocado-dressing/comment-page-1/#comment-1370
Great stuff Heather. Check out this Boston Globe article finding 34% of MA kids are overweight (http://tinyurl.com/2ftz3zp) and sorted by school district (http://tinyurl.com/2atjkcz). All the more reason, and importance, for your efforts leading CFNE Kids and sharing your amazing knowledge on this blog. I bet if you picked a sampling of kids from various districts and had them follow the site you'd no doubt see a remarkable turn-around.
ReplyDeleteBtw, I'm no fan of BMI as an accurate measure of fitness/health but if parents and society haven't realized it yet childhood obesity is a very real / very now epidemic and the sooner we take it on and reverse the trend the better.
ReplyDeleteLove the site girl!! You're creating such a great kids program at CFNE and I'm so fortunate to work and work with you in developing future fire-breathers. Crossfit is literally engraved in our family's daily schedule! You rock and keep it up!!
ReplyDeleteTHANKS, BOSS! Couldn't handle those monsters without ya!
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