The recipe for a healthy lifestyle includes a combination of good nutrition and physical activity. Your body needs a variety of nutrient rich foods to grow and prevent illness. And your body also needs to move and exercise every day.

When your nutritional needs are met it is easier to focus and learn. When you are physically fit you are more alert, more positive and enjoy a better quality of life. Combine good nutrition with physical activity and you will feel better, look better and have more energy.

Well-nourished students have higher test scores, increased school attendance, improved concentration, and improved classroom behavior. Students, who are physically fit, sleep better and are better able to handle the physical and emotional challenges that they encounter during the day.

America's Move to Raise a Healthier Generation

Childhood obesity or excess weight threatens the future of one third of American children. We spend $150 billion every year to treat obesity-related conditions, and that number is growing.

Obesity rates tripled in the past 30 years, a trend that means, for the first time in our history, American children may face a shorter expected lifespan than their parents.

Join First Lady Michelle Obama, community leaders, teachers, doctors, nurses, moms and dads in a nationwide campaign to tackle the challenge of childhood obesity. We need to get moving.

Let's Move has an ambitious but important goal: to solve the epidemic of childhood obesity within a generation.
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Key things you need to know about leading a healthy lifestyle are:

• Eat a healthy diet that includes fruits, vegetables and whole grain products
• Control portion sizes and never "supersize"
• Get active for at least 60 minutes, five times a week for ages 6 - 18
• Avoid tobacco and illegal drugs all together.

A healthy diet and being physically active are some of the most importanat factors leading to a healthy lifestyle. Make eating healthy and proper fitness a way of life

Learn more by clicking on the Nutrition, Sports Nutrition and Fitness links below.

Nutrition

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