{"version":"1.0","provider_name":"The News Journal","provider_url":"https:\/\/qa.thenewsjournal.net","title":"W\u2019burg students have fun while learning about healthy life choices &ndash; The News Journal","type":"rich","width":600,"height":338,"html":"<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"J2JMDlFBIr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/qa.thenewsjournal.net\/wburg-students-fun-learning-healthy-life-choices\/\">W\u2019burg students have fun while learning about healthy life choices<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"https:\/\/qa.thenewsjournal.net\/wburg-students-fun-learning-healthy-life-choices\/embed\/#?secret=J2JMDlFBIr\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" title=\"&#8220;W\u2019burg students have fun while learning about healthy life choices&#8221; &#8212; The News Journal\" data-secret=\"J2JMDlFBIr\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\"><\/iframe><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n\/* <![CDATA[ *\/\n\/*! 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What happens to your lungs when you smoke? Fourth and fifth graders at Williamsburg Independent School got answers to these kinds of questions and got to see how the lungs inflate and deflate as we breathe and how the muscles of the heart actually work during a presentation Thursday in the J.B. Mountjoy Gymnasium. The Donate Life Kentucky State Team brought the \u201cLife is Cool\u201d program to the school, which is a hands on, in house field trip of sorts that helps students better understand how healthy choices keep one\u2019s body healthy. \u201cThis is a curriculum that is written for fourth and fifth grade students. It is to teach the students about making healthy choices,\u201d said Life is Cool Program Coordinator Charlotte Wong. \u201cWe make healthy choices every day in our life without even thinking about it. For example, when go to McDonalds or Hardees and we order chicken nuggets and French-fries. What other choices are we making. We are choosing to add additional fat not only to our blood but also to our arteries. We are building a risk for heart disease.\u201d Another health related choice that the program is teaching students about is drinking Coke or Pepsi with a meal. \u201cWe are adding something to our bodies that can add a health complication,\u201d Wong noted. \u201cRight now in the state of Kentucky more than 70 percent of our population has kidney disease and diabetes. A kidney patient, who is going to dialysis, can only have a limited amount of liquid. We don\u2019t want them having a Coke because the additives of the coloring bogs down the kidney.\u201d If you are a kidney patient or someone with a family history of kidney disease, then you never want to drink anything that isn\u2019t clear enough to see through, Wong said. \u201cWe are not teaching them don\u2019t ever drink a soft drink. We are teaching them think about your kidneys,\u201d she added. \u201cIf you have to order a soft drink, let\u2019s make it 7-Up. You can see through it. There is no coloring or anything that is going to affect your life 20 years or 40 years from now.\u201d The curriculum includes five weeks of lessons in the classroom and is followed by an in house demonstration of ten stations that show how organs, tissues and eyes benefit by choosing a healthy lifestyle at an early age. Each station concentrates on a specific bodily function, and some stations include pig organs to provide a visual of how the body\u2019s systems work, such as seeing the lungs inflate and deflate as we breathe, and how the heart muscles actually work. At many stations, students got to put on gloves and actually touch the organs. University of the Cumberlands students staffed the stations and provided the instruction to the students. Members of The Donate Life Kentucky State Team were also present in addition to volunteers to help students understand the importance of staying healthy. The Donate Life Kentucky State Team is dedicated to saving lives through organ and tissue donation and transplantation. Life is Cool is one of its\u2019 initiatives to help people better understand how lives are saved through the generosity of one individual and how people that need transplants receive them. Students and teachers learned through the program about organ and tissue donation and transplantation, and the importance of the donor registry when people need a transplant. One person can save eight lives and help up to 50 more people through organ donation. \u201cOrgan donation is a possibility that is brought up in every hospital in the state of Kentucky when a patient is declared brain dead,\u201d Wong noted. \u201cWhy do we wait to have that conversation on a family\u2019s darkest, most terrible day?\u201d Wong said the program talks to students in fourth grade about organ donation so it isn\u2019t a new topic when they get to be teenagers and older. The curriculum includes free workbooks for the schools that students take home to complete with their parents. \u201cIt is a good way for parents to interact with the teachers and the students. We are opening conversation. They are talking about something that generations older than myself have always considered taboo,\u201d Wong added. \u201cWe are opening the doors for communication.\u201d"}