It was time for the WHOLE family to get healthy in Body, Mind & Spirit during Good Food  + Good Reading + Good Health = A Better You! on August 2, 2008 at the Illinois Institute of Technology, the Field, in Chicago. This year was it’s easy to get it together with two FREE annual events at ONE location: State Senator Mattie Hunter’s 3rd Legislative District Fifth Annual Health & Fitness Fair PLUS the Institute for Positive Living’s Off the Page Reading Festival 2008.

Children and families got healthy and fit at the Fifth Annual Health & Fitness Fair with school physicals (bring immunization record), eye examinations, health screenings (diabetes, blood pressure, etc.), AIDS information, holistic health information, Jazzercise, and Women’s Workout World.

Then they got to visit the Open Book Literacy Village where young people learned how to create their own books; took classes on writing poetry, lyrics & short stories; participated in reading games; met famous writers; played HIV/AIDS Jeopardy; and heard Story Tellers.