Speedway To Healthy

What is the Speedway to Healthy?

The Speedway to Healthy is a 1,200-square-foot, walk-through exhibit representing the human body. This creative educational exhibit teaches children in kindergarten through fifth (K-5) grades how the foods they eat affect their bodies and their health.

 

Why was the Speedway to Healthy project developed?

Childhood obesity is a widespread issue in the state and the nation. The Speedway to Healthy project was created as a resource to fight childhood obesity and poor health among children in North Carolina.

Unhealthy food choices, low physical activity and other factors have resulted in alarming health facts such as:

• One in every three children in the state between 10-17 being obese or overweight.
• North Carolina having the 23^rd highest rate of childhood obesity
• Childhood obesity as a contributing factor to our children possibly becoming the first generation to live shorter and less healthy lives than their parents.(“Physical Activity, Nutrition and Obesity,” 2013)<sup>1
  
   1</sup>Physical Activity, Nutrition and Obesity in North Carolina QuickFacts. (2013) Retrieved March 12, 2014.

Who created the Speedway to Healthy

Speedway to Healthy is a project of 4-H Youth Development of Cooperative Extension at A&T, a division of the College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences at N.C. A&T State University.