Caught Red Handed
Posted on February 25, 2015 by Amaany Ruiz in News
Amaany Ruiz
Felipe de Bedout
Chronicle Reporters
Fame Health Club hosted the “Caught Red Handed” campaign to promote better nutritional choices. Students and staff attended an open optional challenge held during lunch Feb. 25.
They signed up and pledged to make better eating habits and stay off chips and/or soda whether it be for a set goal of a day, week or month.
The campaign was held to bring awareness to the risks and issues of having an unhealthy lifestyle. When the goal is set, a student or staff member can then choose to pick a healthy option of food without being limited to an easy bag of chips during their “chip fast”.
The club hopes to inform students and staff about what the risks of eating high quantities of sodium that are found in chips and soda.
Fame Health Club adviser and health/life skills teacher, Randall Fenderson said, ” We hope for teens to raise their level of awareness about what they are eating. They should avoid processed foods.” They also want to raise awareness to adults so that they can make better nutritional choices and empower students.
The club’s president and TCA senior, Wendy Siguenza said, “We hope that we can teach students and adults about what they are consuming.” “This is not just limited to students, because adults can show the example.” “Without a proper example of eating right, students will not make proper nutritional choices either.”
Fame Health Club will teach students the risk of eating processed foods like chips. In the long run, these foods can cause high blood pressure and other health problems. Wendy said, “whatever you consume, has an effect on the inside and outside.”
Students and staff will continue to try to meet their goals and not get “caught red handed” (eating chips or drinking soda) in hopes to help others to make better nutritional choices.
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