Summary
A quick snapshot turns up plenty of activity on the national level: the recently proposed HR 5209 (CHOICES) to fight obesity (page 21): the White House Interagency Task Force on Childhood Obesity: the National Physical Activity Plan, which includes the section Parks, Recreation, Fitness and Sports; the Administration's first revision in more than a century of the country's policies on land conservation and recreation called America's Great Outdoors; First Lady Michelle Obama's Let's Move Campaign; the commitment of a Senate sponsor for a companion bill to the Urban Revitalization and Livable Communities Act that will complement the House version of URLC; the Centers for Disease Control's ACHIEVE program (page 52), and a joint-declaration of a Children's Outdoor Bill of Rights signed by the NRPA, the National Park Service, and the directors of state parks.
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Obesity On the Run
IF 2010 IS REMEMBERED as the year childhood obesity became an epidemic, then it should also be remembered as the year when it began to end. Evidence of this is all a...
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