Date Added: 27-06-2008

With childhood obesity on the rise, packing a healthy lunch is essential for kids at summer day camp.  Read the excerpt below.

News 10 Now - Syracuse,NY,USA

06/25/2008

By: Marcie Fraser

If your child is attending summer camp, chances are you are packing their lunch for the entire day. Healthy kids start at home. Whether it's a sports camp or a cool pool camp at the YMCA, kids are there for hours and that means taking a lunch. With childhood obesity on the rise, packing a healthy lunch is essential.

"We asked kids, ‘ok do you kids like fruits and vegetables?’ ‘Oh yeah, oh yeah,’ ‘well what type of fruits and vegetables do you have in your lunch?’ And they may show us fruit snacks and truly think that that is a real fruit and of course it’s not," said Kathy Mennillo, registered dietician.

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