A child at one booth is learning how to plant his own healthy fruits and vegetables.
OKLAHOMA CITY -
Metro children and families learned some important
numbers to live by on Saturday.
The 5210 campaign kicked off downtown at the
Myriad Botanical Gardens with a family friendly event, Saturday. The campaign focuses on behaviors
targeted by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control as priorities for obesity
prevention and control.
It teaches people how to live by four simple principles, five or more fruits and vegetables, two hours or less of screen time, one
hour or more of physical activity and zero sweetened drinks.
"We've all gotten really used to drinking sodas
and having those excess calories and being able to take some real simple steps
to eliminate those extra calories are really going to help us start to turn the
corner to improving the health of our kids," said Angela Jones with the YMCA.
Read
more about the 5210 initiative.