Shaklee salutes U. S. Athletes for earning a record number of medals at the Vancouver Games. At Shaklee, we don’t just stand behind our products – we stand behind the people who use them. For 30 years we’ve sponsored some of the most elite athletes in the world, including athletes at the Vancouver Games. Shaklee [...]

Thomas Goetz: We Need To End The Obesity Epidemic.

This country is in the midst of a health crisis — we are simply in worse health now than we were a decade ago. The trend lines are pointing in the wrong direction. And it all starts with obesity.
When you think about it, the U.S. has done [...]

How to Help Kids Fight Fat | BettyConfidential.com.
An Olympic legend joins the battle against childhood obesity–Shannon Miller
"Unfortunately, too many children today aren’t getting a good start when it comes to eating and exercise. The childhood obesity rate in America is distressing. More than 15 percent of children and teenagers are obese and another 15 percent [...]

Editorial Reviews

From School Library Journal
Americans seem to be suffering an epidemic of chronic fatigue. Some of this can be attributed simply to lack of sleep, particularly in the Eastern time zone, where 11 p.m. is the end of prime-time television. Also highly suspect are the many additives in much of the food we eat and [...]

by Jennifer Couzin-Frankel
First Lady Michelle Obama has launched a major initiative on childhood obesity, one of her signature topics. The carefully orchestrated rollout—Obama has been foreshadowing her plan for over a month now, speaking at a mayors' conference, a local YMCA, and elsewhere—includes a new nonprofit foundation and a range of approaches to tackle the [...]