URBAN FUEL Nutritional Curriculum

UrbanFUEL (Food for Ultimate Energy and Living) is a collaborative initiative between the New York Roadrunners Foundation and New York University's Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health. The purpose of UrbanFUEL is to educate children about how eating impacts their energy, growth, performance, and wellness and how to make healthful eating a part of everyday life.

The UrbanFUEL curriculum is delivered through a series of kid-friendly interactive workshops that lead participants to consider their eating habits and to understand how they can improve their lives by taking simple steps to a more nutritious diet. There is also a curriculum for participant's parents as their involvement is critical to changing the eating habits of our youth.

The UrbanFUEL workshop is a 45 minute nutrition workshop for kids. Workshops are usually facilitated by an official UrbanFUEL instructor. The overarching goal of UrbanFUEL is to help every child served by the Foundation make informed choices about food.

The highly interactive, hands-on workshops engage kids in activities and dialogues that foster understanding of food and nutrition and how it affects their bodies.

To contact the nutrition coordinator about UrbanFUEL, email urbanfuel@nyrr.org.

Or for program material and more information go to this website
http://www.nyrrf.org/index.cfm?organization_id=23§ion_id=238&page_id=979