Howell Area Parks and Recreation Director Deb Mikula sent this message to our readers:
"The physical and emotional health of an entire generation and the economic health and security of our nation is at stake." First Lady Michelle Obama at the Let's Move! launch
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.
We can solve the challenge of childhood obesity within a generation so that children born today will reach adulthood at a healthy weight if we all work together. Through the Let's Move! campaign-a comprehensive, collaborative, and community-oriented initiative that addresses all of the various factors that lead to childhood obesity-we are engaging 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.
We encourage you all to take the Let's Move pledge to help solve childhood obesity and receive e-mail updates about this worthwhile and essential life-changing campaign at http://www.letsmove.gov/
