Albany Winners Visit Hawthorne Valley Farm!

The winners of the 2009 Healthy Steps to Albany: First Lady's Challenge are:

Healthy Steps News

March 9th 2009 at the Healthy Steps Kick Off Expo. Students visited information tables such as the one prepared by the Office of General Services shown on the left. Students also played basketball, ping bong, bowling, and showed off their awesome jump rope skills.

2/4/09 First Lady Michelle Paige Paterson speaks to students at Myers Middle School. Also pictured is School Principal Dale Getto, Mayor Gerald Jennings and Superintendent Dr. Eva Joseph. The school visit was followed by a tour of North Albany YMCA, the facility that hosts the school's physical education classes.

Events Calendar

February 25th 2009: Sugarless Wednesday in New York State

Studies have found that an increase in sweetened food and beverage consumption is associated with increased weight gain and obesity. It is also linked to higher rates of many preventable illnesses including diabetes, heart disease, cancer, acute asthma events and hypertension. Reducing consumption of sweetened foods and beverages has been shown to improve oral health and overall body health. 

March 9th 2009: Healthy Steps Kick Off Expo

Celebrate the start of the Challenge.
Stephen and Harriet Myers Middle School
100 Elbel Court
Albany, NY 12209
9:30 am - 10:30 am

Participating Schools

Get involved with the Healthy Steps Challenge! Volunteer at a participating school:

Albany School of Humanities

Giffen Memorial

Elementary School

North Albany Academy

Stephen and Harriet Myers Middle School

Thomas O'Brien Academy of Science and Technology

Community Support

CORNELL COOPERATIVE EXTENSION OF ALBANY COUNTY provides a wide variety of FREE Nutrition Education Programming for youth, adults, families and caregivers in a number of different settings, including: in-school programs, after-school sites, youth groups, community groups, etc.  For more information, visit our web site at http://www.ccealbany.com/ where you will find featured topics in nutrition and health, along with specific links to youth and adult nutrition programming that is available at no cost.  Contact Lisa Buenau (lab38@cornell.edu) or Barbara Stevens (bes13@cornell.edu) at 518-765-3500 for class information and scheduling.   

CORNELL NUTRITION WORKS offers continuing education, online, anytime. Becoming a Cornell NutritionWorks members is FREE and will allow you to access cutting edge nutrition information, download resources and tools that enhance practice, collaborate with peers through discussion forums, and take self-assessments for continuing professional education units. Continuing professional education units are also available for a fee through this interactive, web-based continuing professional education program.  For more information visit www.nutritionworks.cornell.edu or contact nutritionworks@cornell.edu, 607-255-2141.

HIP4KIDS has been teaching children and their parents practical lifestyle techniques to combat childhood obesity and type II diabetes for almost nine years.We conduct Celebrity Chef Hosted Community Cookshops and provide free online curriculum to any teacher who contacts us. Contact Christopher Daly for details at (212) 772-6215, by writing to Hip4Kids Inc.1202 Lexington Avenue Suite 217 NY,NY 10028 or by email christopher@hip4kids.org

MYDANCETIME.COM is an interactive website that offers FREE instructional dance routines by professionals. You can even record your own video and add it to the site. Visit MyDanceTime.com to register your FREE membership.