Greetings!
1) Below:
Public schools face incredible obstacles in teaching kids about
healthy lifestyles. So instead of just complaining, every year
we fund a public school wellness project.
Cast your vote now.
2) Hmmm:
see the new desk+treadmill combo here. Love the idea, but 3000
bucks?! Don't think I'll find it in my stocking this year.
3) Poll:
How do your customers handle the holiday season? So far, 75%+
say most customers take a holiday from healthy lifestyles.
4) Subscriber news: We love to hear from readers,
and Dan Houston, a clinical exercise specialist & budding salsa
entrepreneur, just sent us homemade salsa samples! If you
like spicy food,
I highly recommend the 96-degree version.
Enjoy!
Leslie Nolen, President
The Radial Group
Business expertise for health & wellness
Dallas, TX
Cast Your Vote For Our 2008
Public School Wellness Project
Healthy lifestyles start early. Yet public schools lack even
the most basic tools for teaching kids about nutrition, activity
and emotional wellbeing.
It's truly appalling to read about the obstacles these incredibly
committed teachers face.
One teacher described a small rural school whose playground is bare
muddy dirt most of the year. Her only equipment for 35 kids?
A couple of deflated dodgeballs that won't hold air anymore.
No sidewalks, no parks. If these kids don't get physical activity
at school, they aren't active. Period.
Other teachers describe city neighborhoods where it's not safe for
kids to be outside. Kids from all walks of life gravitate to TV
and junk food. And tools for dealing with the daily stresses
so many kids face? Forget it.
Really, it's no wonder so many are overweight and inactive.
That's why Radial makes an annual contribution to
DonorsChoose.org. This not-for-profit organization matches project
proposals from public school teachers with donations by businesses
and individuals.
DonorsChoose receives a wide variety of project proposals.
Since our focus is health and wellness, every year we pick a handful
of projects and ask our readers to vote on which one they'd like
us to support with our contribution. They're all extremely
worthy causes, so you can't go wrong.
Which of the following projects would you like Radial's contribution
to support?
Click here to vote for your preferred project:
(Trouble with the link?
Email us with the project you recommend we fund.)
1) Yoga for Kids
Inner city magnet school for 5th/6th graders with serious behavioral
challenges wants yoga DVDs + yoga blocks and straps for its ongoing
yoga program
2) Healthy Living Club
Music teacher at small urban high school wants to start a Healthy
Living Club that needs gardening supplies, videos, books to create
a model program
3) Getting Fit With Math Facts!
Third-grade teacher in rural community wants hula hoops to combine
math lessons with physical activity - for example, 2+3=5 so they'd
do 5 hula hoop loops.
4) Power Pilates
High school in small city wants mats and books to teach kids lifelong
physical activities like Pilates & yoga rather than traditional
team sports.
5) Kids & Motor Skills
Preschoolers with special needs in large Midwestern city need balance
beams and other gross motor supplies, sensory materials & bilingual
books to learn to walk and balance
Click to vote now for your preferred project.
And
see notes and photos from the last couple of years here on our website.
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