RSS 2.0 FeedJanuary 20, 2011, Merrick Life
Calhoun students show a healthy concern
Calhoun students learn about healthy lifestyles.
AT CALHOUN'S VISUAL HEALTH FAIR last week, Jake Nesbla tried on a pair of special glasses at the Community Parent Center booth that mimic drunkenness by placing the lenses in a kaleidoscopic construct, making it difficult to see straight, a characteristic of inebriation.
HEALTHY eating: Meghan O’Sullivan, Christina Vitale and Ellie Rosenblum carry healthy sandwiches for lunchers at Calhoun’s Visual Health Fair last week.
EMOTIONAL RESCUE: Students at the fair get involved with karaoke as a healthy means of releasing pent-up energy from the daily stress of classes. Merrick Life photos by Douglas Finlay
Calhoun students were encouraged throughout the day last Friday to visit the visual health fair in the gymnasium organized exclusively by the students in the hope it can promote healthier living among the student body.
Twenty-six booths were placed throughout the gym that focused on both physical and mental aspects of well being. Massage therapy was offered to students at at least two booths, a chiropractor straightened postures and skin care took center stage for others, brain-teasers were available for still other students.
Boswell’s Delicatessen, Bagel Boss of Merrick and Smith Street Cafe were among many vendors providing healthy and nutritious snacks throughout the day.
Juniors Nicole Pernice and Sara Gerber staffed a booth that handed out Edy’s Fruit bars. “These are lower in sugar for those watching their weight or are diabetic,” they told Merrick Life.
Senior Anthony Barresi was swinging ropes to help strengthen the upper arms. Physical education teacher Ryan Csajko told Merrick Life that ropes are for cross-fitness exercising, “for working out multiple repetitions in less than a minute.” He said they work muscles not necessarily used, such as those for shoveling snow.
Jake Nesbla called a pair of glasses he put on at the Community Parent Center booth “crazy, they throw everything off.” The glasses replicate visual impairment one experiences when having drunk alcohol to a level of .16.
He had trouble finding and walking a straight line put on the floor for the exercise.
Meanwhile, Meghan O’Sullivan, Chistina Vitale and Ellie Rosenbaum walked around with sandwiches for lunch in the lunch room.
Mike Ferrera, a senior, tried out the strtech band, designed to strengthen muscles for speed and agility. “It was tougher than I thought,” he said.
