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Habits of highly healthy kids - Part 2 In the last issue of The Valley Star we discussed what it means to be healthy and how Flo Doughty raising the stanard we have for our children will elp them be “Highly Healthy”. ighly healthy children are sucessful and happy and that is what e all desire for our children! n Dr. Walt Larimore’s book, “The ighly Healthy Child”, he sets forth ten principles that deeply affect the health of our children. Remember we expanded “healthy” to not just mean physical health, but emotional, spiritual and relational health as well. The ten principles are: •Be Proactive in Preventing Physical Disease •Build Your Child’s Health Care Team •Ensure Proper Nutrition •Provide Adequate Protection – (i.e. Monitor what they watch on TV, friendships, etc.) •Nurture Family Relationships •Establish Spiritual Foundation •Connect with the Larger Community •Instill a Balanced Self-Concept •Engage in Healthy Activities •Cultivate Growth and Maturity We won’t have time to discuss all of these so we will make a list of some habits and behaviors that will help encourage us to take our children to the next level of healthy! Highly healthy kids are not just fed healthy food, but are taught the reasons why a healthy diet is important. Kids are far more likely to accept and continue healthy diets if they understand why it is important and what the consequences re if they don’t. ighly healthy kids exercise, not just occasionally, but regularly. Exercise helps kids to burn anxious energy, and exercise helps them develop healthy hearts and healthy self-esteem. Kids who exercise and eat a healthy diet feel better about themselves, sleep better and have better attention spans. This translates into better academic performance as well. Studies prove this. Highly healthy kids don’t spend a lot of time watching TV and playing video games. Highly healthy kids are interacting with parents, being creative, reading books, playing active games. They aren’t “watching” life, they are living it! In his book, “The Successful Child” William Sears writes, “Many parents devote a great deal of effort to shaping their child’s intellectual, emotional, or physical development, but they shy away from teaching spirituality. They are neglecting a critical tool for success. Prayer also makes belief more real and shapes the identity of the family.” So, highly healthy children have a family who prays together and how great it is when siblings pray for each other! Highly healthy kids are taught how to build friendships and positive interactions are shown by example at home in how parents interact with each other and those outside the home. This list could go on, but these are a few things to get us started on the path of raising highly healthy children. I encourage you to pick up a copy of Dr. Larimore’s book, “The Highly Healthy Child”, you will be encouraged and challenged in ways that will not only help your child, but your entire family unit! If you would like help with the exercise and nutrition parts of having a highly healthy child, check out Savvy Kids Fitness at the Athens- Limestone Hospital Wellness Center, www.savvykidsfitness.com. Blue Dolphin Pools - Athens for your pool and hot tub needs 1802A • Lindsay Center • Hwy 72 East • 256-233-5723 A Trusted Name for 35 Years Hours: Mon.-Fri. 9am to 5pm Super Thursday Come by and see the gang at • Sat 9am -1pm 10 % OFF Chemicals Page 10 the valley star June 28, 2012
June 28, 2012 the valley star Page 11 The Valley Star | feature ardening: Work or pleasure by Debra Johnson know you’ve heard the saying, “one man’s trash is another man’s treasure.” Well, you might could almost say the same about gardening: “One man’s work is another man’s pleasure.” I enjoy working in the vegetable garden, and others prefer flower gardening. I’ve been associated with gardening ever since I was a child. My grandparents lived on a farm, so we would spend a lot of our summer sitting under shade trees shelling peas and shucking corn. My family moved from town to a farm when I was about 10 years old, and the garden became a family affair. Now, I still enjoy planting vegetables, watching them grow, and especially eating them fresh out of the garden. I’ve often been asked why I wanted to fool with a garden since there is so much work involved, but really while working in the garden, you are getting plenty of exercise and sun, not to mention the pleasure of seeing your garden produce delicious vegetables. The work doesn’t stop when the vegetables arrive. Then you have the job of gathering them and then canning or freezing for food later on in the winter. It is not uncommon to see gardens in the country, but there are also quite a few garden spots in town. I guess there are a lot of people that enjoy growing fresh vegetables as I do. I hope there will be young people that are interested in vegetable gardening and that it will continue with each new generation and not become a lost tradition. Debra Johnson with a wheelbarrow of fresh vegetables from her garden. MON, JULY 2|JULY 9 Sauerkraut and Wieners Peach Cobbler Scalloped Potatoes Baked Mac/Cheese Field Peas Yams Fried Okra Creamy Slaw Mixed Beans Turnip Greens TUES, JULY 3|JULY 10 Corn Casserole Mixed Vegetable Cass. Twice Baked Potatoes Creamy Mac/Cheese Purple Hull Peas Spinach Fried Zucchini Creamy Slaw Squash and Onions Honey Carrots Peach Cobbler WED, JULY 4|JULY 11 OPEN 9am - 12pm THUR, JULY 5|JULY 12 CLOSED FRI, JULY 6|JULY 13 Roasted Vegetables Peach Cobbler Cheesy Potato Cass. Baked Mac/Cheese Field Peas Sliced Apples Fried Okra Creamy Slaw Rice Casserole White Beans DAILY LUNCH SPECIAL $5.99 + TAX FOOD BAR HOURS 10:30AM TO 1:30PM HOBBS STREET LOCATION ONLY www.lawlersbarbecue.com 256-232-2677 1-877-874-4688 / 1-877-U PIGOUT
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