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by Wendy Cooper (Author)
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
Author Biography
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.
