The Costa Mesa, Calif. school was one of about a half dozen this year to host the Nutrition Olympics put on by the Network for a Healthy California, where pre-K through sixth-grade students competed in coconut bowling, veggie relay, melon weightlifting, orange shot put and potato sack races before getting a taste of coconut, raw sweet potato sticks, raw broccoli, watermelon and orange juice, according to The Daily Pilot in Costa Mesa. For the full story, click here.
Editor’s Insight: This event won’t strike most VendingMarketWatch readers as big news, but it demonstrates two things: 1) community organizations exist that can help improve kids’ health and nutrition awareness, and 2) there are ways to make nutrition education fun for kids.
VendingMarketWatch runs stories like this to encourage its readers to become involved in community health and nutrition activities. Not only will this help give kids healthier habits, it will also offers an opportunity to be more involved in the community, which helps build a company’s reputation. 07-05-12 By Elliot Maras
