Eat Smart, Play Hard

Healthy eating helps you make the grade!
Columbus Torah Academy is a member of Team Nutrition and is committed to making CTA a healthy school environment. We will be prioritizing nutrition and fitness for our students during the 2005-2006 school year. Some new initiatives this year are before school intramural sports with Mr. Bailey and a fruit and vegetable grant that will encourage students to incorporate more of that food group in their daily diet. Watch this page for more details.

Our November Fruits and Vegetables of the month are pears, cranberries, sweet potatoes and greens.
The new dietary guidelines for Americans recommended eating 3 cups of leafy greens a week!
Activities for this month will include a taste test in the cafeteria and an election for CTA's favorite fruit and favorite vegetable. Stay tuned for the results, and check the bulletin board in the library to see which CTA students were "Caught" eating fruits and vegetables.

In the health office this month, CTA third graders are having physical checks of their height, weight, vision and hearing. Check your child's BMI, when results are sent home. I he or she is in the 85th to 95th percentile, it is considered "at risk of overweight"; over 95th percentile is "overweight". Children with these risk factors should be referred for counseling on nutrition and life style to avoid health consequences later in life and develop healthy habits for today.

Call the CTA nurse, Cathy Tran, if you have any questions or concerns about BMI, vision or hearing.

For more information go to http://www.fns.usda.gov/tn/

Cathy Tran, R.N, B.S.N., has been the nurse at CTA for six years. She is a graduate of Penn State and Columbia University and is currently enrolled in the Pediatric Nurse Practitioner program at The Ohio State University.