Make A Leap Fitness Foundation, Fighting Childhood Obesity, Free Fitness Classes to Children and Adults

Make A Leap Fitness Foundation

Our Mission

As a 501(c) (3) non-profit organization, Make A Leap Fitness Foundation (MALFF) mission is to provide community-based wellness opportunities for both adults and children to be nutritionally healthy, fit, and physically active in economically-challenged areas. Our goal and driving purpose of our programs is to eliminate obesity, heart disease and to improve the fitness and lifestyles of our children and adults.

Our Vision

The first set goals of the Make A Leap Fitness Foundation (MALFF) is to provide fitness, strength, sports, and educational nutrition programs to both adults and children in disadvantaged areas. Our target community will be our own neighborhoods within the city we live and conduct business.

Our programs are designed to awaken children and his or her parents, which will tap into their curiosity and willingness, a well-balanced cultural-tinted knowledge base through simple-science language, for example choosing less expensive nutritional food substitutes. Using simple-science language as a tool will improve the longevity the family both physically and emotionally, through the discipline of exercise and healthy eating.

We believe that active lifestyles and nutritional education will help prevent and lower health problems; like obesity and heart disease.

The subsequent goals of our foundation is to create a partnership with the local school district, and surrounding communities and share best practices (nutrition, health, and wellness), and provide all children in the communities outside support (after school and weekend) that will help mitigate problems created by lack of proper nutrition and exercise. Further, we are offering the “other services,” tailored fitness and nutritional programs that will integrate special needs, disable children and adults.

This shocking prediction, made by U.S. Surgeon General Richard Carmona, may be the result of the current trend of childhood obesity. Despite the efforts of many agencies and organizations to emphasize and encourage healthy lifestyles, statistics tell us that more children are obese, inactive, and leading unhealthy lifestyle than a generation ago.

Kids’ fitness is a major concern today with several kids becoming overweight or even obese by the time they reach their teenage years. Over 40% of the kids in the US are believed to be overweight. Even though obesity is often believed to be because of genetic factors or because of over-eating, lack of proper exercise is also a major reason for obesity among children. There is an imbalance between activity and diet that causes even children who eat normally to put on excessive weight. Obesity is determined by calculating the body mass index, which is the ratio between the height and the weight. A BMI between 17 and 23 is considered healthy. Anything higher than this is considered to be obesity.

(Ref: Research and Markets: Global Perspectives on Childhood Obesity: Current Status, Consequences and Prevention Business Wire. (2011). Behavioral Change Key to Fighting Obesity. Retrieved from http://article.wn.com/view/2011/01/25/Behavioural_change_key_to_fighting_obesity/)