The Wellness Impact

Most kids, like me, have dreams of being famous when we grow up. We dream of becoming professional football players, singers, millionaires, dancers, fashion designers, Nobel Prize winners, and even the President. The choices we make now, as kids, will affect our future. Usually most of us think short term when it comes to our health. As long as we feel good now, we don’t really care what our health will be like in 30 years. We need to start thinking about the future of our health and take action!

A new report was just released called The Wellness Impact. It talks about how eating healthy foods and physical exercise helps us learn in school and helps us to have good health as we grow older. Eating a good breakfast every day is also important as it helps kids to learn, get better test scores, are less likely to be absent, and behave better in school. Research is showing that our ability to learn is affected by the quality of the foods we eat and how active we are.

The Wellness Impact states that all of us need to work together to take control of our health. To be better students, we need to make better food choices and get more active. We can try new healthy foods rather than assuming we don’t like them. We can encourage our friends and other kids at school by being good role models. We can choose a healthy plate at each meal with lots of veggies, fruit, protein, whole grains, and dairy. We need to get at least 60 minutes of exercise every day and keep moving. We need to take care of ourselves. This is our health and our future!

We all have dreams of what our future will be like. A good education and good health will help us get closer to our dreams. A future of good health is something all of us can have by the healthy choices we make now. Dare to dream and reach for the stars, just don’t forget to choose healthy foods and get moving every day along the way!