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September 24, 2012

Are You as Fit as a Fifth-Grader?

Come Work Out to “Peanut Butter Jelly Time” with Benny the Bull and 300 Project Fit Kids

WHAT:  Students ages 5-12 will cut the ribbon on their secret weapon to combat pediatric obesity and improve physical health - Project Fit America, a two-year program using specially designed cardiovascular equipment and curriculum. 
Monkey bar rotations, pole climbs and bar jumps are just a handful of the exercises that will keep these Chicago-area students moving to a healthy beat all day.

Gottlieb Memorial Hospital, part of Loyola University Health System, has sponsored 15 schools in more than a decade through Project Fit America program grants. Lincoln Elementary is the 2012 Gottlieb Project Fit grant recipient.

WHEN:  Tuesday, Sept. 25, 1:15-2:15 p.m., Lincoln Elementary School, 3420 Jackson St., Bellwood Ill.

Media must contact Stasia Thompson in advance at (708) 417-5036.

WHO:  Benny the Bull, mascot of the Chicago Bulls, is the surprise guest who will join the colorful, music-filled celebration and help more than 300 elementary school students and their physical education teachers demonstrate new physical exercise techniques that will be used daily throughout the next two years.

WHY:

  • Test your fitness at the seven stations of exercise equipment with Benny the Bull and kids
  • Capture 300 school kids getting excited about exercise and health improvement
  • Join a “Peanut Butter Jelly Time” aerobics flash mob of Lincoln students and Benny the Bull
Loyola University Health System (LUHS) is a member of Trinity Health. Based in the western suburbs of Chicago, LUHS is a quaternary care system with a 61-acre main medical center campus, the 36-acre Gottlieb Memorial Hospital campus and more than 30 primary and specialty care facilities in Cook, Will and DuPage counties. The medical center campus is conveniently located in Maywood, 13 miles west of the Chicago Loop and 8 miles east of Oak Brook, Ill. The heart of the medical center campus, Loyola University Hospital, is a 569-licensed-bed facility. It houses a Level 1 Trauma Center, a Burn Center and the Ronald McDonald® Children's Hospital of Loyola University Medical Center. Also on campus are the Cardinal Bernardin Cancer Center, Loyola Outpatient Center, Center for Heart & Vascular Medicine and Loyola Oral Health Center as well as the Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine, the LUC Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing and the Loyola Center for Fitness. Loyola's Gottlieb campus in Melrose Park includes the 255-licensed-bed community hospital, the Professional Office Building housing 150 private practice clinics, the Adult Day Care, the Gottlieb Center for Fitness, Loyola Center for Metabolic Surgery and Bariatric Care and the Loyola Cancer Care & Research at the Marjorie G. Weinberg Cancer Center at Melrose Park.

MEDIA RELATIONS

Stasia Thompson

Media Relations

(708) 216-5155

thoms@lumc.edu
Anne Dillon

Media Relations

(708) 216-8232

adillon@lumc.edu