Washington – After visiting children at CentroNía, a bilingual child care center in Washington, D.C., First Lady Michelle Obama unveiled Let’s Move! Child Care, a new effort to work with child care providers to help our youngest children get off to a healthy start. The First Lady released a checklist that providers and parents can [...]

State program seeks to create foundation for physical activity in young children MADISON – Promoting physical activity to help prevent childhood obesity is the goal of a new grant awarded recently by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to the Department of Health Services (DHS). The funding targets two to five-year-olds in 20 regulated [...]

Solving the Problem of Childhood Obesity Within a Generation WASHINGTON, D.C. – This week, First Lady Michelle Obama joined Domestic Policy Council Director Melody Barnes and members of the Childhood Obesity Task Force to unveil the Task Force action plan: Solving the Problem of Childhood Obesity Within a Generation. In conjunction with the release of [...]

Study provides insight for educators, opportunities for local youth Milwaukee Recreation recently participated in the first phase of a national childhood obesity study conducted by the Sajai® Foundation, Penn State University, and the National Recreation and Park Association (NRPA) in 49 U.S.cities. The positive findings have led the Northwestern Mutual Foundation to fund a local [...]

Milwaukee Public Television is launching I AM THE FIT GENERATION, a pilot outreach initiative to encourage healthy eating and physical activity in the area’s children. Designed to combat the alarming problem of childhood obesity, it is aimed at vulnerable and low income children between ages 4 and 12 and kicked off the week of April [...]

America’s move to raise a healthier generation of kids www.letsmove.gov THE WHITE HOUSE, WASHINGTON – First Lady Michelle Obama today announced an ambitious national goal of solving the challenge of childhood obesity within a generation so that children born today will reach adulthood at a healthy weight and unveiled a nationwide campaign – Let’s Move [...]