MLS Seattle Sounders FC

Sounders FC and SUBWAY Restaurants to Host Family Fitness Night

May 11, 2012 - Major League Soccer (MLS)
Seattle Sounders FC News Release


WHO: Seattle Sounders FC forward David Estrada and midfielder Mauro Rosales, representatives from SUBWAY© restaurants of Seattle and 300 local youth.

WHAT: Sounders FC players will share training, fitness and nutrition tips with local youth and their families.

Families will be led through a series of interactive exercises including: soccer drills, basketball, jump rope and Zumba.

SUBWAY© restaurants will provide sandwiches and Sounders FC prizes to families in attendance.

WHEN: Tuesday, May 15, 6-8 p.m.

WHERE: South Park Community Center - 8319 8th Ave S., Seattle, WA 98108

WHY:SUBWAY restaurants© of Seattle continue to partner with the Seattle Sounders FC to provide fitness and health programming in the Seattle/Tacoma area. These two organizations joined forces to reach more than 1,000 students and their family members last year.

According to the Centers for Disease Control's National Health and Nutrition

Examination Surveys (2007-2008), approximately 68 percent of adults are overweight or obese, with 75 million adult Americans considered obese.

Children have become heavier as well. In the past 30 years, the prevalence of childhood obesity has more than doubled among children ages 2-5, has tripled among youth ages 6-11, and has more than tripled among adolescents ages 12-19.

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