Healthy Choices: An Informative Newsletter What can you do to be healthy? You have been selected to create an informative newsletter to send to local middle schools about how to make healthier choices. Be sure to include facts you found in your research to support your writing.

Some topics could be...

⇒Eating healthy food: balanced diet, how to read food labels, healthy food menus, the childhood obesity problem, why drinking water is important, unhealthy foods and drinks.
⇒Getting Exercise: why it is important to get exercise, sports to play, how to be safe when exercising, how to get strong and exercise for flexibility.
⇒Ways to say “no” to drugs: how smoking affects the body, what to do if someone offers you tobacco, alcohol or drugs.
⇒Strategies to deal with stress: exercises that help with stress, breathing techniques that decrease stress, how stress affects our bodies.
⇒Do you have a different idea? Go for it!

This newsletter should be between 3 - 5 paragraphs long. Long enough to get your point across clearly and concisely. Be sure to include data from your research as well as examples (statistics are a great way to put things into perspective). Make sure you have enough to support your topic!