School Nutrition

" Here is across the country are getting food makeovers when it comes offering healthier lunchtime choices for kids. Check out how the program helping your generation is helping establish good eating habit."

" This is the single most significant public health challenges America faces. Today we don't turn this around here actually running the risk of -- the first iteration of America's sort of lost friends and their parents. The solution. To. Obesity isn't changing how we live in the world and eat. -- But you know that it has to happen. Person -- person family about family school by school community by community. And if you were trying to budget this. Who knows what it's all gonna happen. But it's the only thing that won't work."

" The mission -- alliance for healthier generation is to reduce the prevalence of childhood obesity by 35. Our goal is really to combat the epidemic which is affecting nearly one in three young people across the country former President Bill Clinton is. The co leader of the alliance along with Governor Schwarzenegger. And doctor Clyde Yancy and the American Heart Association the schools."

" We honor today. I believe. Represented the forefront. Not only other effort to turn around and obesity epidemic. And avoid having your generation totally paralyzed by diabetes and other problems. But if what you're doing in the way of doing that. You represent the way we're gonna have to do change in America."

" We will be recognizing a 114 schools for really transforming their school environments to be healthier places I guys you got that celery carrots."

" We just basically. We followed the nationwide trend -- to try to limit our child will be. And now with the support Marcus Trufant district superintendent this is this. You decided that we were able to. To really make some. For big changes in our -- environment we've been working in all of our schools to make sure that not only are we changing the food service and offering more fruits vegetables. Lower fat items. We're also working with -- physical education departments and our Health Department. To make sure that we're having a whole school reform working for having healthier school which helped us become voted to help you school in New -- Lester."

" What we found is that schools have been incredibly innovative. The vast majority of schools enrolled in the healthy schools program have actually changed out their beverages to be healthier. Less caloric and more nutritious so that you'll find. Primarily milk and water and -- in vending machines across the country in schools that we worked well. We also work with -- schools to change their physical activity opportunities increased them. COC staff and students walking together before and after school. It's not only increase its physical activity opportunities that really increases. The opportunity for staff and students to -- Relationships that we know our protective against dropped out and it. You are important to keeping kids and."

" Ralston trying to get more. Activity braves ahead. Physical education minutes into the summer the other subject areas so. Physical fitness is definitely on the forefront of what --"

" Maybe you. Have friends who are educators and parents in school districts or schools -- suspend this program. I hope yours and do you all the cutting edge of what I think will be the dominant social work for the 21 century. Trying to answer the house what you have gone a long way toward answering them arguably -- here today."