MY LIFE..IN THE NEWS!!!! Revised due to rushed post :)

First, I would like to apologize that I did not post this weeks Tickle My Fancy Tuesday.
This work week has been LOOOOONNG and TOUGH.

I know it's only Wednesday!!

As I mentioned before I work with children, a Diabetes Prevention Program for youth....

At the beginning and the end of the school year PARTICIPATING CHILDREN are evaluated.
We collect their Height, Weight, and Glucose levels by finger stick.
We also analyze their meal consumption at both breakfast and lunch for 3 days straight......

At this time our COHORT is 3rd grade elementary students..
{some years, middle school students, and sometimes Pre-k}

We have FIVE elementary schools and about 200 kids!!

Do the math, 200 kids, 2 times a day, 3 days straight = I don't know, one tired mommy that's runnin' around like crazy :)

So, WHAT TIME DO YOU DROP YOUR KID OFF AT SCHOOL?????

 I have to be there 30 minutes before that!

 Which can be 7am sometimes or 645 am!!!!!!! Umm, ya I think that's kinda early :)

O, and the schools ??? They are ALL ABOUT 30-40 minutes away, GOING ALL HIGWAY!!!
During the year, INTERVENTION takes place, where we ACTIVELY TEACH, MODEL and SATURATE the students environment (school) with a HEALTHY LIFESTYLE CULTURE to make BEHAVIORAL CHANGES and thus making HEALTHIER KIDS!!???



{OH, AAAAAND my car got broken into last night and my camera got stolen......IT HAS BEEN A TOUGH 2 DAYS!!}

OOOO, and at the same time in between lunch and breakfast and after lunch we are helping out high schools, middle schools, and OTHER elementary schools finish their PHYSICAL EDUCATION TESTING..

You know, you remember?? The push ups, curl ups, and stretching tests...

YEAH, 2 people trying to complete 100 kids testing in about an hour....(We DO IT! We DID IT! We're PRO's NOW..
sidenote:I think we need to License our method cuz no one is faster than us..hence why they call us "TO HELP!!!!" YUP, THAT IS A PAT ON OUR BACK :))

I just thought that y'all might enjoy reading and sharing the EXCITEMENT of my everyday life....Did I Mention that there IS.NO.TIME.TO.EVEN.EAT!!? :)

Anyway, as I have also MENTIONED BEFORE,

I.LOVE.MY.JOB!!!

We have currently been awarded an AMAZING GRANT that is making scientific news...

 CHECK IT OUT, the story will be featured on
CBS World News, ABC World News and local KSAT 12,
KENS 5 and KMOL 4;
it will also be featured on GOOD MORNING AMERICA tomorrow morning 5/12/11.

{This technology is EXTREMELY important to the scientific and medical community, because the OBESITY epidemic is furiously spreading, and our children are AT RISK! The hopes we have with this technology is TO HELP people of all kinds... the limits are endless with this technology
Right now, in its preliminary stages it is being used to help analyze what our study children are consuming, something we already did, but this tool is much more efficient...

[trying asking a third grader what they ate 3 days ago, or even if they ate candy this morning...]

So this technology,
through pictures,

(UPDATE: TAKE PICTURES OF STUDENTS TRAY'S  not the student, all info is confidential at analysis stage. The only people who know the identity of the child would be people like me coordinating the collection process. And believe me, I am not watching what your kid is eating when I have 50 other kids to make sure get collected)

 will tell us what  THE STUDENTS are consuming,

TOO MUCH SUGAR?
TOO MUCH FAT?
NOT ENOUGH VITAMINS?
EVEN, NOT ENOUGH CALORIES??? (not enough calories will not allow  your pancreas to metabolize sugar properly thus leading to problems as well)

The pictures will give a full nutritional analysis}

It already is being negatively portrayed as CALORIE COUNTING; in fact that is only a small amount of information being collected most importanly is the type and amount of NUTRIENTS being consumed.


THIS IS THE YAHOO ARTICLE THAT WAS FEATURED AS WELL, IF YOU MISS THE STORY ON THE NEWS...
YAHOO NEWS, In TEXAS SCHOOLS...
MySanAntonioArticle
Feel free to ask me questions and let me know what you think about this!!

P.S. Back to your scheduled programming later this week :)