Supporting Kids Health: Fresh Choice Restaurants and NourishInteractive.com Support National Childhood Obesity Awareness Month
An article by Sarah
Posted August 31, 2010 
September is America’s National Childhood Obesity Awareness month. Fresh Choice Restaurants and NourishInteractive.com have teamed up to provide children with important tools for healthy eating.
Fresh Choice Restaurants (www.freshchoice.com) and NourishInteractive.com (www.nourishinteractive.com) have teamed up to support the first ever National Childhood Obesity Awareness month. Children in the U.S. are becoming overweight or obese at an alarming pace. Since the 1970s the rate of obesity in children ages six to eleven has increased by four hundred percent!
Seen as an epidemic by medical experts, more than twenty-three million children and teens are overweight or obese. This puts our youth at risk of developing diseases such as high blood pressure, heart disease or diabetes, which have until recently, been seen mostly in adults. Fresh Choice Restaurants has teamed up with NourishInteractive.com to help distribute information about the value of healthy eating. Fresh Choice has been traveling to local schools to speak to young people about the importance of healthy eating and attaining good health through the consumption of fresh vegetables and fruits. Nourishinteractive.com offers tips and information on healthy eating to parents, while online games for children help promote the eating of nutritious food to our youth in a fun and effective way.
Prompted by the Center for Disease Control (CDC), medical organizations, and nutritional experts, September Childhood Obesity Awareness Month was instituted when the United States Senate passed a declaration in March of 2010 declaring September as National Childhood Obesity Awareness Month. First Lady, Michelle Obama, has worked diligently to raise awareness of this epidemic. Hoping to solve the problem in a generation, a federal task force was appointed to provide recommendations on how to reduce the number of overweight or obese children, which now affects about one-third of all of America’s youth.
The dedication to increasing the overall health of today’s youth can be seen in the way Fresh Choice Restaurants and NourishInteractive.com have stepped up their efforts to provide children with the support they need to create healthy eating habits. This September please support National Childhood Obesity Month by visiting your local Fresh Choice Restaurant and NourishInteractive.com!
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