It wasn’t a Top Forty tune, but...
It wasn’t a Top Forty tune, but more than 200 kids at the Los Angeles Children’s Museum Wednesday were grooving to the beat of the Sat-Fat Rap. And while the tune wasn’t one their parents would be familiar with, the message on the evils of saturated fat was:
So keep your heart healthy
Sat Fats no !
Live long, be cool, it’s the way to go.
The music was part of a special program to encourage children to eat right and exercise. Children as young as 5 can begin to develop high cholesterol levels, according to officials from the American Health Foundation, which sponsored the event along with the Kellogg Co. and the museum. Statistics indicate that one out of four children have high cholesterol levels.
The youngsters, all on special school field trips and armed with permission slips from their parents, received cholesterol screenings, were told to eat lots of cereal and vegetables and were given booklets on how to exercise and pick healthy snacks.
The message was made more palatable with the appearance of Will Wheaton of “Star Trek: The Next Generation” and Kids for Healthy Hearts, a group of 10 youngsters from Jackson, Miss. (the city whose residents won a national Cholesterol Challenge contest last year).
David Algood, 12, who has a high cholesterol level, noted, “I was scared when I heard I had high cholesterol, but now I know I can make my health better.”
In other matters of the heart, John Saffelo and Clara Deets took the big plunge this past weekend at Raging Waters. In the first wedding to be held at the amusement park, the bride and bridegroom sealed their marriage vows after sliding down the Bermuda Triangle, a 100-foot water slide tunnel.
The bride, a 20-year-old bookkeeper, wore a white one-piece swimsuit, long wedding veil and suntan lotion. The bridegroom, a 23-year-old glass door installer, was attired in black swim trunks and a black bow tie.
The couple had planned a traditional church wedding, but car repairs set their finances back, so they needed something a little less expensive. Saffelo, half-kidding, suggested getting married on the slide. Deets took him up on the offer, called the park and got free admission for themselves and 60 wedding guests. The minister was another story. They were turned down by seven clergymen before the Rev. Eldred Perkins of Our Savior’s Community Church in Corona, agreed to officiate. “As long as it was a Christian wedding . . . I’d go to the moon,” Perkins said.
