Power Food this week is Carrots! The carrot is a root vegetable with the most commonly eaten part being the taproot.They are usually orange in color although purple, red, white, and yellow varieties also exist. The vegetable is often pulped, mashed, boiled, puréed, grated, fried,...
This week’s Power Food is Pineapples! Pineapples are eaten fresh, juiced, cooked, and preserved and their leaves are even used for insulation in your homes. Believe it or not, Pineapples are a composed of many berries whose individual fruitlets fuse together around a central core. Individual pineapple...
Start your week with this week's Power Food, Broccoli! Thomas Jefferson, one of the founding fathers of the United States, was a fan of broccoli, importing the seeds from Italy to plant at Monticello. He recorded planting the vegetable there as early as May of...
The Power Food this week is Banana! Bananas are seriously healthy for your muscles. In case you are not aware, bananas are very rich in a mineral called potassium. It is an electrolyte that our body requires to keep electrical impulses flowing through the body....
Preschool sports enrichment program, Amazing Athletes, joins JDRF’s Greater Bay Area chapter in the fight to find a cure for Type 1 diabetes. Amazing Athletes South Bay is teaming up with the local Greater Bay Area chapter of the JDRF to raise awareness and critical funds...
Preschoolers discover good-for-you foods in a colorful new way! “Power Foods” is a brand new topic that is being incorporated into Amazing Athletes’ 2014-16 preschool enrichment curriculum to teach preschool children the nutritional benefits and “secret powers” of fruits and vegetables. Setting a goal of helping young...
Child development expert Selma Fraiberg, PhD once dubbed the age of preschoolers as “The Magic Years” – and for good reason. To a preschool-aged child, the world is a wondrous place filled with mystery and awe. How a child copes with the world during this critical...
HealthWatch Kids Triathlon to hit the streets Sept. 28 Texas kids are getting healthy in a fun way during the Amazing Athletes-sponsored HealthWatch Kids Triathlon on Sept. 28 in Keller, TX. What began several years ago as a Halloween-day sprint has grown into a full-blown kids triathlon coinciding...