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YMCA Healthy Kids Day

Presented by YMCA of Middle Tennessee at Centennial Park

April 16, 2011

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Nashville’s premier health and wellness influencers are partnering to bring Healthy Kids Day to Centennial Park on April 16. The one-day festival will provide and promote activities that affirm active, healthy lifestyles - particularly focused on Nashville’s children and their families.

Collaborating on the Festival will be the Mayor’s Office of Children and Youth, Metro Parks and Recreation, Metro Public Health Department HEALs (Healthy Eating Active Living), the Vanderbilt Child and Family Center and the YMCA of Middle Tennessee. The groups will combine all of their diverse, youth-driven initiatives into one giant event special to celebrate the end of the nationally recognized Week of the Young Child.

HEALs is a movement focused on fit lifestyles, obesity prevention and healthy living, and first head the youth fair in 2010. Conveniently, Healthy Kids Day, a national YMCA initiative, falls at about the same time this year, allowing the two health advocates to combine forces to educate Nashville families on the benefits of wellness.

 This year’s event will feature various recreational activities for children of all ages, including: hula-hooping, step-dancing, races, soccer, parachute games, Zumba and African dance classes. Healthy cooking demonstrations will be held for parents, as well as booths for dental checks, kindergarten physical check-ups and adult blood pressure screenings. Pre-kindergarten and kindergarten registration booths will be present to ensure that Nashville kids are not only developing a healthy lifestyle, but a flourishing education as well.

Free hygiene products and safety information kits will be made available through contributions of local Nashville organizations and businesses.