 You need a financial advisor with the freedom to focus on your specific needs. Whatever your goals, Reeve Potter can create a game plan tailored to you. Call Reeve at 432-0777 at Pikeville, Kentucky to learn more. Over the past seven months, juniors and seniors from Pikeville High School have been working with the UK's Center of Excellence to create a project that will educate individuals about the importance of eating healthy. Tuesday, Mountaintops spoke with students about their project. So this year we wrote another grant to start another project and we chose, you get to choose your topic and we chose healthy food eating choices because we feel like that's a problem in our area and in our school and we experienced it ourselves. So we wanted to educate others on making better eating habits and healthy food choices. As part of the project, students received a $1,000 grant in which they used funds to create a healthy eating booklet and enchilada lunch for their school. Well, we did have to make a bunch of modifications to the recipe so the recipe was originally from the UK and we took that recipe and we couldn't really find beef so we had to make a substitute for that. We also couldn't find any black beans so we had to make a substitute with pinto beans and just finding all those individual ingredients, it was so much more expensive than looking at normal school lunches where they just have individual things like pizza or Bosco sticks, it's just the price difference is so much which is why healthy food isn't typically advertised as well in a school environment but that's what we want to do, we want to make a difference and show that even though it is slightly pricier, it's just so much better for people as a whole. Afterward, students described what they learned from their project and how it helps others. We had in our survey, we talked a lot about empty calorie drinks or a lot about different things that are very normal in a diet of the youth around here and learning about sugar-free and why, a lot of times it's marketed to be healthier for you but actually it's healthier to have more natural sugars in your diet than it is to have empty calorie or sugar-free drinks or foods. I learned a lot about how carb cutting isn't healthy, a lot of changes and stuff that I can make in my own diet myself and also to take that and educate other people on how to make healthier choices on their diet as well. The one thing that I thought interesting that came back from our survey was the amount of people that said that they skipped meals and I feel like that as high school students you have to live up to the expectation to be something but we need to get the information out there that skipping meals is not losing weight that it's actually hurting your body more than it's helping you and that we need to just put the knowledge into kids that healthy food is how you get a healthier lifestyle and not skipping meals and going to empty calorie drinks and drinking sport drinks all the time that there's a different way to get a healthier lifestyle. Also, with the help of Pikeville Medical Center, students will print copies of their booklets for participating locations. Our main focus was the students in school and we're going to be presenting in a couple of days actually to everyone. We're going to go to every classroom, go around and present our booklets, show them, give them more knowledge about it and then hopefully PMC has helped us make this booklet and they said that they wouldn't mind helping us hand some out and then that way we can get them like just a widespread variety of people so like not just in our school, hopefully it can go outside to the community and just spread to everyone. For Mountain Top News, I'm Jol Corjol.