Get Yourself Moving!™

Thoughts on improving childhood fitness and learning

Less is more, or… going for what’s first, easy & cheap

Coca-Cola & McDonalds Are Afraid of You | Health Habits. It may appear that the purveyors of sweet sodas and cheap eats are running scared! (They should run with GYMB4 – they’d get more exercise that way ) After all the screaming to the hilltops about childhood obesity and the health of our families, these companies [...]

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Wed, May 5 2010 » Healthy Schools, Reversing Childhood Obsesity » No Comments

Weighing the sweeteners – baltimoresun.com

About every week or two, we get an unwelcome free newspaper dropped on our front lawn. The SunPlus is nothing more than several pages of ads bracketed by one or two articles of general interest. Recently, though, I hesitated before throwing this one in the recycling. There on the cover was an article weighing the [...]

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Wed, April 21 2010 » Healthy Schools, Reversing Childhood Obsesity » No Comments

The longest block…

One day, my daughter and I were going to a school function in the evening. Because her school has limited parking, many families had to park off-campus and walk the rest of the way to the school. To be honest, we could have walked the entire way, but like many busy families we were running [...]

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Thu, March 25 2010 » Everything Else, Reversing Childhood Obsesity, Thinking (and Moving) Outside The Box » No Comments