Informing kids of healthy eating habits is a continual effort, and one that the YMCA helped promote during a presentation on Thursday.

Lisa McCullough is the Nutrition Education Program Agent Assistant with the Cooperative Extension System and was on hand to explain to kids the importance of calcium and Vitamin D.

She explained to kids attending summer camp how calcium is not limited to just milk and informed the group that there are alternatives to get the desired calcium, such as cheese and yogurt.

“It is important to involve them in the process and show them first hand,” McCullough said. “It is never to early to get them started thinking healthy.”

Following the informative lesson, a group of about 20 kids lined up and learned how to make ice cream in a bag.

They then added frozen fruit to the ice cream bag and enjoyed a refreshing snack and getting some beneficial calcium.

This was the second summer in a row that McCullough had held the event at the YMCA.

“They just love doing it,” McCullough said. “It’s one of the things that they look forward to the most.”