First Lady’s “Let’s Move” Campaign Gets Going to Get Kids Fit

Over the past three decades, childhood obesity rates in America have tripled, and today, nearly one in three children in America are overweight or obese. One third of all children born in 2000 or later will suffer from diabetes at some point in their lives; many others will face chronic obesity-related health problems like heart disease, high blood pressure, cancer and asthma.
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First Lady Michelle Obama has taken the lead in fighting childhood obesity and keeping our kids healthy and fit with the “Let’s Move” campaign. The comprehensive, collaborative and community-oriented initiative addresses all of the various factors that lead to childhood obesity, and engages every sector of society that impacts the health of children to provide schools, families and communities the simple tools they need to help kids be more active, eat better and get healthy.
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For more information on how you can help, and what’s being done to turn around the epidemic of childhood obesity within a single generation, visit www.letsmove.gov or watch the video below (Photo: Samantha Appleton). 

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