GE Sponsors Chuck D's Hip Hop Health Shows at New York's Apollo Theater

For more, visit http://www.hiphoppublichealth.org/
Behind the scenes with Dr. Olajide Williams, founder and director of the Hip Hop Public Health Education Center at Harlem Hospital. In June of 2010, the Center broght hundreds of students from New York City public schools to a program called H.E.A.L.S. (Healthy Eating and Living in Schools) at the historic Apollo Theater in Harlem.

The center's sponsors include GE, the New York City Council and the National Stroke Association.




At the event in the Apollo, children were taught a range of eating options, including the difference between healthy foods or "Go foods" like apples and unhealthy or "Whoa foods" like donuts.

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