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
Unhealthy food choices, low physical activity
- One in every three children in the state between 10-17 being obese or overweight.
- North Carolina having the 23rd 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, Nutritionand Obesity,” 2013)1
1Physical Activity, Nutritionand 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.
Contact Us
Carinthia Cherry, Ph.D.
Nutrition Specialist
Phone: (336)334-7956
Email: cacherry@ncat.edu
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