Healthy Rules of the Road

By Wendy Cooper

Healthy Rules of the Road educates, motivates, and inspires families to make healthy lifestyle choices and to become aware of those choices. The traffic-themed vocabulary and visual tools give children and adults a common and easy way to talk about what it means to be healthy and which choices can best be applied. Learn how green-light decisions can be applied in all areas of life. Watch children become empowered to take charge of their choices and to help others. Drive down the healthy highway as a family to create your road map to your own healthy lifestyle. This is a trip of a lifetime—welcome to the state of good health!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Balboa Press
• Release date: Dec 13, 2017
• ISBN: 9781504391115

Wendy Cooper

Wendy Cooper, a physical education teacher for 30 years and mother of two, is the founder and president of the award-winning Healthy Highway program. This program uses traffic themes and metaphors to encourage families to make healthy choices in all areas of their lives. This program has been used in schools around the country and received national recognition when it was featured on Rachael Ray’s Yum-O website. One of Wendy’s greatest honors was being a featured exhibitor at the Alliance for a Healthier Generation conference in Washington, D.C. Other awards include: the Special Olympics Healthy Communities Partner of Excellence Award; the first Greece Chamber of Commerce's Annual Community Health Award; and the Amazing Person Retiree Award presented by NYSAHPERD. Her passion to help families live healthier lives led her to write Healthy Rules of the Road.

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Healthy Rules of the Road

Wendy Cooper

Copyright © 2017 Wendy Cooper.

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ISBN: 978-1-5043-9110-8 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-5043-9111-5 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2017917649

Balboa Press rev. date: 03/12/2019

This book is designed as a guide only to motivate families to become aware of healthy choices that they make. It is not to diagnose or treat any condition. Please seek professional advice from your medical practitioner for such occurrences.

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Healthy Highway Road Map

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction

About Wendy Cooper, Founder

About Healthy Highway

Dedication…

Letter from Wendy Cooper

Incorporating traffic concepts

Red Light/Green Light Concept

Traffic Vocabulary

Nutrition Rules of the Road

Start Your Engines

Daily Activities

In the Driver’s Seat

Message from Rev, the Healthy Highway Dog

Traffic School

Cool Fuels

Safety Rules of the Kitchen

Your kitchen is the showroom

Lunch Box Ideas

Lunch Box Rules

Coop’s Creations:

Green Light Decisions

Honest Street

Cooperate Circle

Family Road Map Calendars

List of Activities and Ideas

Finish Line

Goal Setting

Healthy Highway License Plate Award

Celebrate Your