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 [...]

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Family Health & Fitness Day USA
Saturday, September 26, 2009
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Teaching our children about nature and animals who inhabit our planet is not only a necessary exercise, but one from which children can learn all about specific habitats, the creatures who live in them, and the need to preserve them for their generation as well as the generation to come.

While most kids can learn about nature from textbooks, it is walking among the different trees and flowers, discovering different species of birds and insects that makes it real for them and easier to relate to and understand.