Posted on 06/30/2015 9:15:03 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
In the early 1990s, fried foods, carbohydrates and desserts dominated Marybelle's high school lunch choices. Vending machines lined the school hallways, offering sugary drinks and unhealthy snacks. With limited healthy options, Marybelle unsurprisingly developed habits that led to high cholesterol and high blood pressure.
Today, it's a different story for her son, Bobby, who's in the seventh grade, and his generation. Bobby started an afternoon fitness club at his middle school and volunteers in his school garden. The school's food service director ensures that students are served fresh fruits and vegetables. Bobby has motivated his mom to give up soda, and together they take morning walks around the neighborhood. "No excuses, Mom!" he says when she insists there's not enough time.
That's why the Clinton Foundation partnered with the American Heart Association to launch the Alliance for a Healthier Generation. Driven by a shared desire for the next generation to have a healthier relationship with food and fitness, our core philosophy has been to bring everyone to the table -- schools, companies, communities, health care professionals and families -- to empower children to develop lifelong healthy habits.
The Alliance for a Healthier Generation is launching the #Commit2Ten campaign to ask everyone -- not just children, but all of us -- to add an additional 10 minutes of physical activity to our day. Take an evening walk with your kids, try a new exercise at the gym, walk with a colleague to lunch, or park a little farther away than you need to. The extra activity may seem small, but the consequences are enormous.
We owe it to the next generation to stop making excuses. Let's join together by moving more and building a healthier generation.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
How we can fight childhood obesity...
Make them eat all meals from Michelle’s school lunch menu.
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Children are too young to father other children.
Did he tell you that you two were brothers?
Apparently your mom didn't think he was too fat.
Stop it, Bill! Don't bring Hillary into this!
BC: “...the solution is to put your mistresses on a diet...”
My dad died from childhood smoking. If he hadn’t grown up on a working horse ranch, he might have died from childhood obesity too, but ranching is a big time calorie burner.
How about getting more exercise, eating less and stop lying around like a couch potato.
1929 solved obesity, it will work again very soon.
Yes, let’s hear the ‘solution’ from someone whom: doesn’t buy their own groceries, make their own food, drive their own car....
Yeah, BJ, just STFU.
This is my issue.
Get away and stay away!
Anyone who flies to ‘orgy island’ with Jeffrey Epstein shouldn’t be allowed around children.
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