Healthy Kids, Smart Kids

Review of selected Chapters from book titled "Healthy Kids, Smart Kids" by Dr. Yvonne Sanders-Butler.
Chapter 1 - Leading by Example

I recommend this book to anyone with children or grandchildren or anyone who teaches.  The author is a principal of a grade school in Atlanta and tells of how she changed the eating patterns of her students and thus behavior and grades changed.  In chapter one, she tells of how she had a sweet tooth from a young age and even though she grew up in rural Mississippi in poverty, she was still able to eat healthy.  But that changed when she was on her own and able to decide what she ate.  She oftentimes chose unhealthy sweet foods.  In her thirties she got a wake up call.  She went to the ER and was told she was on the verge of having a stroke.  She changed the way she ate.  Instead of obtaining energy from sugars, which always have an initial high but lead to a crash later on, she started eating less sugar and make healthy changes in her diet.

As a principal in a grade school, she would see students trade things they loved for brownies and french fries and the like.  She decided to do something about it and developed the "Sugar-Free Zone" in and around her school. 

Stayed tuned for further posts about how she accomplished this monumental task.