Sue Scheff: Beat Childhood Obesity - Let's Move Campaign

Let's Move Campaign

Obesity threatens the healthy future of one third of all American children. Obesity rates have tripled in the past 30 years.

We spend $150 billion every year to treat obesity-related conditions, and that number is growing. For the first time in American history, our children’s life expectancy may be shorter than their parents’.

We need to get moving.

Let’s Move! has an ambitious but important goal: to solve the epidemic of childhood obesity within a generation.
Let’s Move will give parents the support they need, provide healthier food in schools, help our kids to be more physically active, and make healthy, affordable food available in every part of our country.

Join First Lady Michelle Obama, community leaders, teachers, doctors, nurses, moms and dads in a nationwide campaign to tackle the challenge of childhood obesity. Learn more and join us.

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Sue Scheff: Pumping Up your Teen's Brain - Teens and Exercise

Researchers are finding that exercise can not only keep you fit, but make you smarter. A school in Illinois has developed a program that gets students moving and learning. Debbye Turner Bell reports.

CBS - Early Show - Jan. 31, 2009

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=4764808n

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Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain

In SPARK, John J. Ratey, M.D., embarks upon a fascinating and entertaining journey through the mind-body connection, presenting startling research to prove that exercise is truly our best defense against everything from depression to ADD to addiction to aggression to menopause to Alzheimer's. Filled with amazing case studies (such as the revolutionary fitness program in Naperville, Illinois, which has put this school district of 19,000 kids first in the world of science test scores), SPARK is the first book to explore comprehensively the connection between exercise and the brain. It will change forever the way you think about your morning run---or, for that matter, simply the way you think.

Learn more - type the title of the book in the Amazon Box and also visit http://www.pe4life.org/ - They have been using the Pilot Program with Dr. Ratey called Learning Readiness PE.

You can also listen to Podcast's of interviews with Dr. Ginger Campbell and Dr. Ratey at http://docartemis.com/brainsciencepodcast/ - In Episode 33 they explored the key ideas about exercise and the brain. In Episode 45 they talk about ADD/ADHD.

Sue Scheff: PE4Life

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