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Last week Healthy Kids Challenge provided physical activity questions and answers from our Healthy School Environment and Physical Education partner, SPARK. We’ll finish up part 2 with these remaining questions and answers...

Wednesday, Michelle Obama was interviewed on the TODAY Show about her childhood obesity initiative. She emphasized that parents need help with simple, accessible solutions to make better food choices. See what HKC offers...

The U.S. Surgeon General and First Lady are challenging our nation to eat healthy and get more physical activity. Healthy Kids Challenge knows that there are many questions people have about physical activity, so we have enlisted our exclusive ...

A Healthy Kids Challenge Hats off to First Lady Michelle Obama for her commitment to a national childhood obesity initiative with details soon to be released. Kudos to U.S. Surgeon General Regina Benjamin who offered very strong and urgent words in her Vision for a Healthy and Fit Nation 2010 released this week.

A Healthy Kids Challenge view of nutrition education when it comes to wellness…and one of our simple, every day, evidence based solutions. Schools tell us that they need quick, easy ideas to integrate nutrition education, like this one...

A Healthy Kids Challenge view of measurement and evaluation when it comes to wellness…and one of our simple, every day, evidence based solutions. Schools tell us that the law doesn't include any reporting requirements, so why should they evaluate? 

Did you finish?  Our Challenge from 8 weeks ago, that is, not the marathon!  This was the 1st ever Healthy Kids Challenge and CIGNA interactive event at the Disney World Marathon Expo.  Thousands of families actually walked through the food pyramid, learning healthy food choices and getting some activity at the same time! 

A Healthy Kids Challenge view of lack of resources when it comes to wellness...and one of our simple, every day, evidence based solutions.  Schools tells us:  We don't have enough money...We don't have enough time...There is no one perfect healthy school and even the model schools had to start somewhere.

A Healthy Kids Challenge view of the quality issues schools encounter when it comes to wellness...and one of our simple, every day, evidence based solutions.  What schools tell us: We don't have a wellness team.  One person takes care of all the wellness stuff...

Baseline research from the first two years of the mandate reveals the major shortfalls are in the following areas: 1) Quality, Funding, and Implementation, 2) Nutrition Education and Nutrition Standards, and 3) Physical Activity Requirements.  We believe a healthy school environment is about more than a policy or a mandate.