90 lime January - March 2009 LIMEKIDS QUIZ TIME How much exercise should kids do every day: A 10 minutes ? B 30 minutes or ? C 1 hour? Food additives can cause: ? A hyperactivity ? B hyperthermia ? C hyperinfl ation? Which three sports does a triathlon consist of? Which is better for you: chips or chocolate? ? 1 2 3 4 In the UK, kids aged 8 to 16 spend around £ 500m a year on sweets and fi zzy drinks on the journey to and from school. Perhaps not surprisingly, one in six is obese. Flavourings and colourings found in junk food can cause asthma, rashes and hyperactivity. The average US kid spends 25 hours a week watching TV , and sees around 20,000 ads a year for junk food. The metal cans that soft drinks come in usually cost more than the ingredients of the drink they contain. The good news: some scientists think that chocolate is good for you and can help protect you against cancer and heart disease. How fit is that? YCyclist LANCE ARMSTRONG survived serious cancer and went on to win the Tour de France – perhaps the world's most strenuous sporting event – a record seven times in a row. YKenyan athlete HENRY RONO in 1978 set fi ve world records in fi fty days in every track event from the 800m to the 10,000m. YHAILE GEBRSELASSIE, of Ethiopia, holder of the men's marathon world record or 2 hours 3 minutes and 59 seconds – that's like running a sub- fi ve- minute mile 26 times in a row. YUS ironman triathlete MARK ALLEN won the famous Hawaii ironman triathlon six times. The event involves swimming 2.4 miles, cycling 112 miles and then running a marathon. Elite ironman triathletes can do the whole lot in under nine hours. YJamaica's USAIN " LIGHTNING" BOLT broke the world 100m record at the 2008 Olympic Games – despite slowing down near the line, and having one of his shoelaces undone. He went on to smash Michael Johnson's longstanding 200m world record a few days later. ANAGRAM FUN Can you unscramble these two anagrams? Rearrange the letters to reveal the name of a very fi t person…. ? 1 Latino bus ? 2 Errant man's clog I t's not just oldies who need to worry about taking care of their health. Even kids need to exercise, eat properly and look after themselves – as the massive rise in childhood obesity worldwide proves. Here are the four fundamentals for a healthy lifestyle. YGET ACTIVE Experts recommend young people get an hour's exercise every day, but it doesn't have to be hard work. Join a football team, go swimming, get on your bike or go trampolining – they're all good for you, and they're all fun too. YEAT PROPERLY Ease up on the junk food. Try learning to cook, and get to enjoy the taste and textures of real food instead of greasy hamburgers. You'll soon learn to love the difference. YCUT DOWN ON YOUR SCREEN TIME Turn off your TV and get away from the computer. Why not go to the park and kick a ball around instead, or just go and spend time with your friends? YSLEEP TIGHT Shut- eye is vital to physical and mental well-being. Under- 18s need at least eight hours' sleep a night – indeed some experts think teenagers need more sleep than younger children. well- DID YOU KNOW ? Keep fit and fresh with our guide to healthy living. ANSWERS ON PAGE 91 ANSWERS ON PAGE 91

TASTY WORDSEARCH Can you fi nd fi ve healthy Caribbean foods hidden in the word search below? ( ANSWERS LEFT) A Z R T X G H A Z T R C Y L U X S X I A S Q O A W P N U W C L D V C I T R J X K R A C M O F L T W E E M F V D N L I A E Q V J A V U U W X M J V E G U M N T D M M R C A L L A L O O B K E Q X C R W B V Healthy Caribbean cuisine Forget fast food and salty snacks. Did you know that many traditional types of Caribbean foods not only taste great, but are incredibly good for you too? YCALLALOO Four times as much calcium and twice as much iron and vitamin as vegetables like broccoli and caulifl ower. YCOCONUT WATER Fewer calories and over six times as much potassium as a glass of cranberry juice. YGUAVA Four times as much fi bre and almost twenty times as much vitamin C as an apple. YBREADFRUIT More fi bre per serving than potatoes, brown rice or rolled oats. YACKEE OIL is mono- unsaturated and completely free of cholesterol – every bit as healthy as olive oil. QUIZ TIME ANSWERS: 1C, 2A, 3 SWIMMING, CYCLING AND RUNNING, 4 CHOCOLATE ANAGRAM FUN ANSWERS: 1 USAIN BOLT, 2 LANCE ARMSTRONG WORDSEARCH ANSWERS: ACKEE, BREADFRUIT, CALLALOO, COCONUT, GUAVA 4 things not to say to your PE teacher I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me. I have fl abby thighs, but fortunately my stomach covers them. If God had wanted me to touch my toes, He'd have put them higher up on my body. I'm in shape. Round is a shape. THEY SAID WHAT? The first time I see a jogger smiling, I'll consider it. JOAN RIVERS I have a washboard stomach, too. It's just that mine has about two months' laundry on top of it. SHAWN BURR More die in the United States of too much food than of too little. JOHN K. GALBRAITH If it weren't for the fact that the TV set and the refrigerator are so far apart, some of us wouldn't get any exercise at all. JOEY ADAMS