| Shoney’s Restaurants and East Tennessee Children’s Hospital know helping children maintain a healthy lifestyle involves learning about the relationship between a healthy diet and daily exercise. With that goal in mind, Shoney’s and Children’s Hospital developed an innovative Eating & Living Healthy program to give families throughout East Tennessee interactive activities and learning experiences that teach the importance of combining nutrition and exercise. |
 | The Eating & Living Healthy program is designed to teach children how they will benefit from leading an active, healthy lifestyle. The Living Healthy component encourages physical fitness while the Eating Healthy component focuses on a healthy diet. |
The program initially created a school curriculum, which was distributed to third-grade classrooms throughout Knox, Blount, Loudon, Sevier, Campbell, Anderson and Roane counties; it is still available to teachers. If you are interested in receiving the Eating & Living Healthy curriculum, contact Shoney’s Main Office at (865) 690-6331.
In addition to providing information to area schools, Children’s Hospital and Shoney’s Restaurants are committed to sharing the Eating & Living Healthy message to others throughout East Tennessee. By hosting special events, preparing public service announcements and participating in health fairs and expos, Children’s Hospital and Shoney’s provide key messages on a variety of health-related topics:
The curriculum includes the following items:
- Eating Healthy and Living Healthy curriculum packs incorporating math, social studies, language arts/writing, health and art.
- A growth chart.
- A bulletin board kit.
- A Living Healthy exercise video. Introduced by University of Tennessee Lady Volunteers basketball coach Pat Summit and WATE-TV's Lori Tucker, this video is led by Alfred Huffaker, a Knox County physical education teacher, along with Shoney Bear and local elementary school students. The video is intended for use in the classroom setting to get children "moving" in the morning and to demonstrate the simplicity of regular physical activity.
- Certificates of completion to reward children for completing the program.
Children are encouraged to follow the Eating & Living Healthy program at schools where the curriculum is taught, and they can find the color-coded food pyramid on the Kids’ Menu at their local Shoney’s Restaurant.
