MODESTO BEE
ORIGINAL ARTICLE

By KEN CARLSON
BEE STAFF WRITER
Last Updated: June 28, 2006, 06:43:37 AM PDT

If you want to teach children about nutrition and exercise, it helps to make it fun.

Consequently, the 45 children at the Project Healthy Kids Camp in Modesto are jumping rope, playing with Hula Hoops, rock climbing and meeting minor league baseball players — when not taking nutrition classes.

The students didn't have to travel far to the camp at Robertson Road Elementary School in the southwest part of the city. The students attend school either at Robertson Road or nearby Kirschen Elementary.

The goal of the weeklong camp, which started Monday, is to battle the obesity epidemic through education.

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