New York’s First Lady, Michelle Paige Paterson, recently stopped by Mosholu Montefiore Community Center to check out the B’N Fit anti-obesity program and meet with some local teens striving to improve their lives while shedding a couple pounds in the process.
Paterson spoke about the importance of diet and exercise and took part in a healthy eating class alongside program participants before heading off to see the rest of the community center facility.
Open to adolescents aged 12 to 21, B’N Fit, a collaboration between the center and the Children’s Hospital at Montefiore, provides the support, education and encouragement for participants to adopt healthy eating and make exercise a regular part of their lives.
“[The program] helps make us feel more confident in ourselves,” said Nmeoma Ubozoh, one of the many program participants to meet with New York’s First Lady.
Ed. note: For more information, including registration for the upcoming B’N Fit 2-mile walk-a-thon on May 30, contact Elicia Johnson-Knox at (718) 920-2232 or e-mail BNFIT@montefiore.org.
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