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You stare at your kids every day.  You admire them.  You love them.  You’d die for them.  Would you fight obesity for them?

During Taste of Chicago at the Healthy Kids Challenge (HKC) Walk Through the Pyramid over 1,000 kids and families walked through MyPyramid food groups, talked to the dancing carrot, and got moo-ful tips from the milk group cow while learning more about healthy eating and physical activity!

“The DGAC [Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee] considers the obesity epidemic to be the single greatest threat to public health in this century.” Join me over the next few weeks as we explore how you can take action to fight childhood obesity from where you are.

No doubt about it, government pressure to fight childhood obesity is a driving force in the move toward healthy snack foods.  Manufacturers are now promoting healthful sweets and healthy snack vending machine foods.

Healthy Kids Challenge (HKC) supports the White House Summer Exercise Series and joins in with our simple, every day, evidence-based solutions.

Healthy Kids Challenge (HKC) is right on target with the White House report, Solving the Problem of Childhood Obesity Within a Generation, providing services, training and materials consistent with the recommendations in the report.

Healthy Kids Challenge (HKC) shares an eye-opening study on children’s snacking habits…along with our simple, every day, evidence-based solutions.