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    • Newcastle Eagles Hoops 4 Health

    HOOPS 4 HEALTH

    HOOPS 4 HEALTH PROGRAMME AIM:

    To provide a healthy living programme with professional sporting role models, using basketball as an activity to convey a range of positive health messages to young people in primary schools, including the importance of keeping physically active and eating healthy.

    HOOPS 4 HEALTH PROGRAMME OBJECTIVES:
    • To encourage young people to look at how their lifestyle choices affect their health in both the long and short term.
    • To promote and discuss the following healthy living issues:-

    Nutrition and water, Smoking Cessation, The importance of keeping fit and its link to a healthy heart, Introduction to basketball as a healthy sporting activity

    • To promote sport, and in particular basketball, as a diversionary activity.
    • To encourage young people to become physically active.