FIGHTING OBESITY
February 14, 2006 | Read Time: 1 minute
Former President Bill Clinton unveiled a new foundation-financed effort to encourage schoolchildren to stay fit and avoid obesity, reports the Associated Press.
Mr. Clinton told an audience at a Harlem school on Monday that 285 schools in 13 states will take part in the first phase of a program that will receive $8-million from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The program, which is run by Mr. Clinton’s foundation, the American Heart Association, and Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, sets out to improve the nutritional value of food serves in school cafeterias and to increase the amount of physical activity that schoolchildren pursue.
