Kids Fitness, Health & Wellness

GoTrybe (still) Available to East TN School Districts

admin — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 19:51:23 +0000

Many have asked about GoTrybe access. For those that don’t know, GoTrybe’s grant funding ended June 30,2011. GoTrybe will extend the program offering through the end of the 2011/12 school year for those school districts who currently have access.

This extension is provided at no charge to the school systems, teachers or students. Everyone at GoTrybe hopes Trybers will continue to use the program and enjoy the benefits of leading an active lifestyle.

GoTrybe Receives Most Unique Resource Award!!

admin — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 13:33:22 +0000

GoTrybe is delighted to announce that our organization has received the Most Unique Resource Award from the TOS Homeschool Crew. The TOS Home School Crew Blue Ribbon Awards are given on an annual basis by crew members who are given the opportunity to nominate and vote for their favorite vendors from the current year. The TOS Home School Crew had eighty different vendors this year, so we feel particularly pleased to have been chosen for an award in such heavy competition. Twenty-five vendors were nominated in our category alone! We are proud to have received such an honor and look forward to continuing our friendship with Old Schoolhouse Magazine.

GoTrybe Announces Contest Winners

admin — Thu, 26 May 2011 01:09:19 +0000

Students, Teachers and Coordinated School Health (CSH) Coordinators
Recognized for Their Efforts To Get Healthy and Active.

Funded by a grant from the Tennessee Department of Health through Project Diabetes,
GoTrybe, an online physical activity and health education tool, has been available
to approximately 175,000 students and faculty in seventeen school districts. These
school districts are located in GoTrybe’s home region of East Tennessee and every
year since GoTrybe’s inception, the homegrown program has offered rewards for its top
participants. GoTrybe’s student and teacher winners are chosen based on recording the highest levels of participation in fitness, while the CSH Coordinators are rewarded for the largest percentage of participating teachers in their respective district. As you might expect, the winners each year are people just like you and me that have made a decision to be active and strive for better health.

“We are very excited to reward those who have worked so hard, says Dr. Bill Joyner Co-Founder of GoTrybe. We are focused on making a positive impact and we’re glad to see students, teachers and the CSH Coordinators utilizing our unique program. We’re focused on GoTrybe being a useful, fun, healthy tool for getting fit and fighting childhood obesity and Type 2 diabetes.”

GoTrybe has chosen to reward teachers and CSH Coordinators with gift cards to local retailers. We all know that teachers and coordinators are often spending out of their own pockets to fund supplies and activities for the students they serve—these rewards will go a long way to help with those types of expenditures. GoTrybe is also rewarding the students with technology prizes.

“Everything we do is in an effort to support an active lifestyle. We want all Trybers to enjoy being active and healthy because we see, not only the health benefits, but the impact that improved health can have on academics, says Dr. Joyner.”

Good health and improved academics go hand-in-hand and GoTrybe will continue to work with teachers and CSH Coorindators to give Tennessee students every opportunity to live well and excel in school.

Some of our GoTrybe Active Winners:

Teacher Winners:

$1000 1st Place-Beverly Lockhead (Knox Co.)

$750 2nd Place-Patrick Hurst (Knox Co.)

$500 3rd Place-Andie Breeden (Knox Co.)

$250 4th Place-Rachel Dunlap (Johnson City)

$100 5th Place-Lindsey McAllister (Knox Co.)

Coordinated School Health Winners:

$1000 1st Place-Aneisa McDonald (Knox Co.)

$750 2nd Place-Beth Cox (Johnson City)

$500 3rd Place-Don Best (Sevier Co.)

$250 4th Place-Mary Beth Blevins (Blount Co.)

$100 5th Place-Erica Phillips (Hawkins Co.)

GoTrybe is an online, active community dedicated to the health and wellness of our youth. GoTrybe gets young people on the move by developing Active Screen Time™. “Trybers” can interact with fitness, nutrition, motivation and wellness content that supports their journey toward living healthfully. GoTrybe wants to be an inspiring force in the fight to get children and teens active while combating childhood obesity and type 2 diabetes. Gotrybe.com is composed of three Trybes: ZooDoos, up to 5th grade, Trybe180, 6th-9th grade and Nextrybe, 10th-12th grade.

For more information on GoTrybe, contact Stephanie Thompson at 423-926-1583 or visit www.GoTrybe.com and GoTrybe’s blog at www.kidsfitnessblog.com.

GoTrybe Review – Milk & Honey Mommy

admin — Mon, 23 May 2011 14:14:31 +0000

See the full review at Milk & Honey Mommy. Here is an excerpt…The segments are short enough to keep the children interested and not completely tire them out. Although my children are really active, something their daily play/exercise has missed is a focus on technique. By this I mean, we have not spent much time on the correct form for doing a jumping jack or for doing push-ups which is something we will be concentrating on more. The fitness instructors take the students through the routine and also show them how to do the movements correctly. My kids love doing the palm tree.

A Huge Thank You!

admin — Wed, 18 May 2011 15:02:01 +0000

GoTrybe would like to take the time to thank all of you for using our program and making an effort to change your lives through physical activity and healthy living. As this school year comes to a close, we want to say a special word of thanks to all of the school systems, administrators, and teachers who have implemented our program into your schools and classsrooms. A huge congratulations goes out to the Knox County Schools and the Johnson City Schools for your large interest in our program and the mass amount of teacher usage numbers that you have been displaying. Contest winners will be announced at the end of this month and will be highlighted on our blog like always. We encourage all of our users to keep up the good work through the summer months and remain active. The weather is perfect to get outside and exercise as a family with a bike ride, hike, or even a swim in the pool. We will be working hard to get everyone prepared for the start of the next school year by helping teachers brainstorm ways to incorporate our program into your daily schedule for the maximum benefit of the students. We look forward to working with each of you again next year!!!

GoTrybe Attends Science Day at Town Acres

admin — Mon, 09 May 2011 00:35:52 +0000

GoTrybe participated in Science Day at Town Acres Elementary School in Johnson City, TN on March 28, 2011. One of our very own trainers, Mrs. Sheridan Crockett, presented a class on zumba to small groups of students at the school to encourage them to incorporate physical fitness into their daily routines. By making exercising fun for people of all ages, GoTrybe hopes to change the unhealthy lifestyles that so many Americans have in an effort to decrease the prevalence of obesity and diabetes. GoTrybe targets students of all ages so that they may learn to eat healthier and live longer by adopting a healthy lifestyle at a young age. We look forward to participating in future events that support and promote healthy living.

A Healthier Subway

admin — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 19:25:02 +0000

The world’s largest food chain, Subway, has modified their menu once again in an attempt to provide healthier food options to their consumers. In 2007, the restaurant began offering a Fresh Fit menu that contains sandwich options with low-fat and low-saturated fat, along with healthy side choices like fruit or baked potato chips, and diet soda or low-fat milk. The new menu changes will go one step further by cutting the sodium in the Fresh Fit sandwich menu by 28% and cutting sodium levels across the board by 15%. Subway has been known as the food chain with healthy options so this is just one more way for them to continue to meet those standards. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention states that one in every three people have high blood pressure, with someone dying from a heart attack or stroke every 39 seconds! This is reason enough for all Americans to eat healthier and pay close attention to the kinds of foods that we eat and the amount of sodium that we intake on a daily basis. Subway is helping to make these choices easier for us. To get more information on this subject, follow the link below.

http://www.qsrmagazine.com/news/salt-subway-cut-it-out

Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution

admin — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 00:23:54 +0000

Jamie Oliver, a celebrity chef and health advocate, is on a mission to cure obesity by getting into America’s schools and educating students on healthy foods and eating habits. Oliver produces the show, Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution, along with Ryan Seacrest. Cameras follow Oliver into schools as he talks to students and educates them on ways to change unhealthy eating habits and prevent obesity. The first season of the television series focused on the town of Huntington, West Virginia. This city was identified as one of the unhealthiest cities in the United States. Jamie’s second season is set in Los Angeles, California. However, Oliver is facing adversity in the school district so far and has even been banned! While current legislation is attempting to change the foods that students are exposed to in the school cafeteria, it is still easy to see by rising obesity rates that students must change these unhealthy habits at home as well. The first season displayed a nation of students who were unable to identify fruits and vegetables in some cases. This should be alarming to us as parents! Shows like Jamie’s highlight the problem of obesity while educating the world on ways to eat healthy straight from the mouth of a chef.

Beyonce to Join Obesity Fight

admin — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 00:10:10 +0000

Beyonce Knowles, pop singer and Grammy award winning actress, is joining the First Lady in the fight against obesity through the Let’s Move initiative. While it is no secret that Mrs. Obama is a huge advocate for fighting childhood obesity through healthier eating and physical activity, her Let’s Move initiative will definitely benefit from the support of Beyonce. Knowles is releasing a new video, “Let’s Move! Flash Workout”, that uses the music from her hit song called “Get Me Bodied”. The new video will debut in middle schools around the country at a ‘dance-in” on May 3rd, 2011. Beyonce states that she is aiming to encourage physical activity and healthy eating by making it fun for everyone. While there is little doubt that Beyonce will catch the attention of children across the nation with this new video, skeptics wonder if her support will make a difference in the way that kids eat and how often they exercise. One thing remains certain…her new video will create quit a buzz among both male and female teens.

New Compound Blocks Bitter Flavors

admin — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 21:10:33 +0000

The American Chemical Society has announced a new compound, GIV3616, that has the ability to block bitter tastes from your taste buds. This compound could be added to foods, beverages, and even medicines to give them a more pleasant taste. While this compound is not the only one of its kind (artificial sweeteners contain a similar compound called GIV3727), it is much more potent than others before it and dissolves more quickly into foods and beverages. Many of you may be wondering why this new compound is so revolutionary to the average consumer. While GIV3616 can certainly be added to cough syrups to make them taste better to both kids and adults, perhaps the most exciting use for this new compound has to do with healthy eating. Our nation recognizes that obesity is an epidemic in our country that can lead to a variety of health related issues, so Americans are trying to eat healthier and lead more active lifestyles. GIV3616 can be added to low-calorie drinks to take away that aftertaste that they tend to have. It can also be added to healthy foods to block out the bitter tastes that keep some from consuming them. Food manufacturers around the world are trying to make foods that contain less salt , fat, and sugar. However, these foods are not always pleasing to the palate. This problem can easily be solved by blocking the tastes that are not very appealing and adding a sweeter flavor. Just think…..broccoli could become a new favorite food for kids around the world. Move over pizza….make room for brussel sprouts!!!!

Check out the link below for the full story!!

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42323287/ns/health-diet_and_nutrition/