Bones 4 Life
www.bones4life.org
A Campaign to Help Children
Build Stronger Bones
Bone Health
• It is vital that children build strong bones before they
reach their mid to late twenties.
• Lack of exercise and poor diets when we are young can
increase the risk of osteoporosis in later life.
• We want children to eat well, move more and get enough
vitamin D.
The Bone Bank
• Our bone mass naturally decreases as we age.
• However, if we ‘bank’ bone when we are young, it can
help prevent osteoporosis later in life.
Building Peak Bone Mass
Bone Mass/Density
Building your peak
bone mass
Age-related bone loss
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Women
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Age (years)
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Inside Bones
Healthy Bone
Osteoporotic Bone
If you don’t look after your bones they
can become fragile.
Building Stronger Bones
We can build stronger bone by:
• Eating a well-balanced diet
containing calcium-rich food.
• Doing regular weight-bearing
exercise.
• Getting enough vitamin D.
YouGov Survey (2008)
• 49% young people did not know that there are
steps you can take to reduce the risk of
osteoporosis.
• 56% young people did not know that exercise
could help to reduce the risk of osteoporosis.
• 1 in 3 did not know about the role diet can play
in minimising risk.
Bones 4 Life
The Bones 4 Life campaign includes:
• New educational website.
• Resource Pack for schools.
• Bone Factor Tour.
www.bones4life.org
• New educational website.
• One area for teachers
and one for children.
• Curriculum-tailored
lesson plans, music,
picture galleries, games
and more!
• Bone Factor Tour
resources online.
Bone-Healthy Heroes
• Sneakers, the exercise lover, knows that weight-bearing exercise is
important for general health and strengthening bones.
• Munch, has an appetite for all things healthy, and loves calcium-rich
foods more than any.
• Blaze, gets power from sunlight, which enables the body to produce
bone-healthy vitamin D.
Resource Pack
A collection of activities that will support schools to
organise a bone-healthy day or week:
• Teacher notes.
• A large bone-health poster.
• Thinking skills game.
• Recipes.
• Boogie For Your Bones CD containing music and
dance video.
• Boogie For Your Bones Dance Plan Poster, showing
bone-healthy dance moves.
• Fundraising ideas.
• Publicity tips
• Information on the Bone Factor Tour.
www.bones4life.org/pack
Bone Factor Tour
Schools can win a visit from Craig and the Bone Factor Tour team!
Schools can win a place on the
dance-tastic Bone Factor Tour.
Just create a simple dance using
some of my steps and tell us why
you love building stronger bones.
The Bone Factor Tour
Schools can win a place on the Bone Factor Tour, including:
• Fun-filled educational activities about your bones:
– what they are
– why they are important
– how we can look after them.
• A Boogie For Your Bones interactive dance session from Craig
Revel Horwood.
– a chance for the class to perform the winning dance for him.
• A lively and engaging healthy-eating activity to teach children about
the importance of maintaining a healthy, calcium-rich diet.
How Schools Can Enter
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Practise some simple Boogie For Your Bones dance steps
using the video and dance plans found on
www.bones4life.org/bonefactor.
Create a sequence of steps to the Boogie For Your Bones
music, or music of your own choice. You can use the
sequence of steps provided or make up your own.
Take photographs of the children performing the dance or
record a short video clip. This does not have to be the
whole dance.
Get the whole class together and write a 100-word
paragraph explaining why and how the class loves building
stronger bones.
What You’ll Need
Visit www.bones4life.org/bonefactor for:
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Boogie For Your Bones Song.
Boogie For Your Bones Dance Videos.
Full Dance Plan.
Simplified Dance Plan Poster.
Bone Factor Tour Lesson Plan.
• Bone Factor Tour Entry Checklist.
Where To Send Entries
All entries must be received by Friday
25th September 2009.
Send your dance entries to: boogieforyourbones@goodrelations.co.uk
or post to:
Bone Factor Tour competition, Good Relations, 26 Southampton
Buildings, London, WC2A 1PQ.
Please call 020 7861 3143 if you have any questions about your entry.