It was an overcast spring day with looming clouds foreshadowing the rain to come, but inside the cafeteria of Teague Elementary, the young students were moving about with different games and activities meant to keep them physically active.

It was Healthy Living Week at Teague Elementary – a weeklong collaboration between students in the College of Health and Human Services Honors Program in Collaborative Leadership and students from Kinesiology 152, as well as members of the Kinesiology Pedagogy Club. For the Honors Program students, promoting the idea of healthy living to this group of youth in the after-school program was important.

Through their Healthy Living Week, the Honors Program students wanted to focus on the prevention of childhood obesity and Type 2 Diabetes in youth. They began their research early in the fall semester, where they examined factors that may increase a child’s likelihood of developing one of these illnesses and what the results of being a child with these illnesses might be when it comes to long-term effects.

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