[HTML1] Today’s youth are overweight and undernourished. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, childhood obesity has tripled in the past 30 years. It’s an American epidemic, as about one in three children and youths, ages 2-19, are already overweight or obese. And overweight kids are more likely to become overweight adults. Some experts believe that if obesity among kids continues to increase at this rate, our current generation could become the first in American history to live shorter lives than their parents. To address this challenge, the National Dairy Council has teamed up with the National Football League to create Fuel Up To Play 60, an outstanding in-school program to help improve the overall health and wellness of America’s youth. In its second full school year Fuel Up to Play 60 is empowering youth in more than 70,000 schools across the country to improve nutrition and physical activity at their schools and for themselves.
Our guests today are actively involved in Fuel Up to Play 60 at their schools. They are Lisa Riley, health education teacher and program advisor at Enslow Middle School in Huntington, West Virginia; and Nikki, a national student ambassador for the program at her middle school in Philadelphia.
Segment A (0:00 – 11:00)
Life Love & Health: Special Edition Executive Producer Christopher Springmann speaks with Lisa Riley, health education teacher and Fuel Up to Play 60 program director at Enslow Middle School, Huntington, West Virginia.
Segment B (11:01 – 22:00)
Christopher Springmann speaks with Lisa Riley and Nikki, a Fuel Up to Play 60 national student ambassador for her Philadelphia high school.
Segment C (22:01 – 33:00)
Lisa Riley and Nikki
More about Lisa Riley
Lisa Riley has been a teacher for 29 years. As a health education teacher at Enslow Middle School in Huntington, West Virginia, she noticed a decline in student self-esteem after a 2006 survey by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention labeled Huntington the unhealthiest city in America based on its rate of obesity, heart disease and diabetes. When she learned about the Fuel Up to Play 60 program, she signed on as her school’s program advisor. She takes pride in her students, who are fighting their hometown’s negative image while working hard to improve their own health.
More about Nikki
Nikki is a student in Philadelphia who joined her high school’s Fuel Up to Play 60 Club and, through her enthusiasm and activism, was chosen as a national student ambassador for the program. She finds creative, teen-friendly ways to raise her fellow students awareness about the importance of breakfast, healthy lunches, and after school exercise.
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