• WCBS-TV coverage of The New Food Guide Pyramid Musical Program: To see the video segment of May 16th and May 17th, 2006 please go to http://wcbstv.com/video/?id=87770@wcbs.dayport.com

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• The Queens Courier features Ms. Butleroff-Leahy's New Food Guide Pyramid Musical (See Image on the Right). Click Here to read the article.

• WCBS –TV website article on The New Food Guide Pyramid Musical Program: Click here to read the article.

• NY Daily News article on The New Food Guide Pyamid Musical Program: Click here to view the article.

The New Food Guide Pyramid Musical Program:
An Innovative Nutrition and Physical Fitness Program
 

The New Food Guide Pyramid Musical Program, based on MyPyramid, is a creative nutrition education/physical fitness program and winner of the New York State Certificate of Achievement Award  for promoting all three of the Eat Well Play Hard (EWPH) core strategies. The New Food Guide Pyramid Musical Program has already been implemented in the New York City school system with fourth and fifth graders at PS 1, PS 163, PS 129, PS 123, PS 186, PS 142, PS 166, PS19, PS 175, PS 70 and PS 15. As of December 2007, 1700 children have participated in this program.  In addition, our company was just given “The Activ8Kids Mini grant” for 2008 from the NYS Department of Health.

This initiative consists of a series of nutrition education classes in conjunction with rehearsals/physical exercise and a performance of an original nutrition/ entertainment musical, The New Food Guide Pyramid Musical, performed by professional Broadway actors and the school children themselves to the assemblies of 1st to 5th graders.

The program emphasizes not only healthful eating habits, but also physical activity as an important component of a healthy lifestyle. This education initiative has as its purpose the prevention of childhood obesity and reduction of the long- term risks for chronic disease.  Our program can include in addition, an evaluation administered during the program and another, six months later, to determine what knowledge was retained and put to practical use by the children.
The New Food Guide Pyramid Musical Program is a not for profit company with 501C3 status.  We also have a vendor status with the Dept of Education.
The creator/director of the nutrition entertainment musical is Helen Butleroff-Leahy. Helen is a former Broadway dancer, Rockette, and director/creator and choreographer of over 50 Broadway, Off-Broadway, regional and summer stock theaters. Helen is also an RD (registered dietitian) and CDN (certified dietitian/nutritionist) who completed her dietetic internship at the NY Presbyterian hospitals of Cornell/Columbia.

For more information on The New Food Guide Pyramid Musical Program, please contact:
Helen Butleroff-Leahy RD, CDN
Director/Creator, The New Food Guide Pyramid Musical Program
212-861-5648
butleroff@aol.com