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Launched by the First Lady, Let's Move! task force focuses on: creating a healthy start for children; empowering parents and caregivers; providing healthy food in schools; improving access to healthy, affordable foods; increasing physical activity. Site coverage includes sign-up link for Let's Move! cities, towns and counties program, facts, food & nutrition, physical activity, and current event news via blogs.
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Presents CDC's recommendations to prevent or reverse the deleterious effects of sedentary lifestyles and poor food/beverage choices. Emphasizes the need for a balance of calories consumed with calories used, with the recommendation to engage in 150 minutes weekly of moderate-intensity physical activity. Features comments by William H. Dietz, Director, CDC's Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity, and other Division staff.
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Covers statistics of obesity in the U.S. Examines environmental changes that have resulted in increased food availability and decreased opportunities for physical activity. Covers the possible roles of individual responsibility, schools, communities, local governments, and commercial corporations in promoting healthy food choices and active lifestyles.
16) Fed up
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Narrated by Katie Couric, the film blows the lid off everything that was known about food and exercise, revealing a 30-year campaign by the food industry, aided by the U.S. government, to mislead and confuse the American public. Exposing the hidden truths contributing to one of the largest health epidemics in history, it follows a group of families battling to lead healthier lives and reveals why the conventional wisdom of 'exercise and eat right'...