Denver Parks & Recreation Summer Camp Youth Receive Bicycle Helmets, and Safety and Health Tips from UnitedHealthcare Prior to Start of Colorado Classic

• UnitedHealthcare pro cyclists and mascot Dr. Health E. Hound lead fun-filled afternoon with helmet giveaway to promote safe, active and healthy lifestyles

More than 75 kids at the Denver Parks & Recreation Barnum Summer Day Camp each received their own professional bike helmet donated by UnitedHealthcare.

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Grant Snyder and Chad Zechiel of UnitedHealthcare help kids with their new helmets at the Barnum Summer Day Camp in Denver today. UnitedHealthcare donated 75 helmets to the summer camp to encourage kids to be safe, stay active and participate in the upcoming Colorado Classic kids' events (Photo: Chip Litherland (LOCK+LAND)).

UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling team members Lauretta Hanson and Lauren Hall, who are participating in the Colorado Classic cycling race, helped lead bike and helmet safety lessons, and provided stretching tips to encourage kids to be safe, stay active and participate in the various events for kids and families during the three-day Colorado Classic. UnitedHealthcare mascot Dr. Health E. Hound was on hand to help kids decorate their helmets with decals and hand out healthy snacks.

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UnitedHealthcare is dedicated to helping people nationwide live healthier lives by simplifying the health care experience, meeting consumer health and wellness needs, and sustaining trusted relationships with care providers. The company offers the full spectrum of health benefit programs for individuals, employers, military service members, retirees and their families, and Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries, and contracts directly with more than 1 million physicians and care professionals, and 6,000 hospitals and other care facilities nationwide. UnitedHealthcare is one of the businesses of UnitedHealth Group UNH, a diversified Fortune 50 health and well-being company. For more information, visit UnitedHealthcare at www.uhc.com or follow @myUHC on Twitter.

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