“Let’s Move” with Action for Healthy Kids

We’re ready. So, Let’s Move! Action for Healthy Kids supports the Let’s Move campaign’s goal to solve the epidemic of childhood obesity within a generation. If we don’t, our children will likely have shorter lives than us!

We have what you need to learn more and take action to help our schools be healthier places and help our kids learn to eat right, be active every day and develop lifelong healthy habits. Here’s what you can find to support the four focus areas of Let’s Move.

Provide healthier food in school

Many children consume at least half of their daily calories at school. As families work to ensure our kids eat right and play at home, we also make sure our kids have access to healthy meals at school.

• Create a personal wellness challenge
• Encourage wellness: tools, guides, and lesson plans
• Advocate for a healthier school

Help our kids be more physically active

Children need 60 minutes of play every day. If this sounds like a lot, consider that 8-18 year-olds spend an average of 7 ½ hours a day in front of a screen - TV, computers, video games, cell phones and movies. Only a third of high school students get the recommended levels of physical activity.

• Find a healthy kids action team in your state
• Get fit with Fuel Up to Play 60
• ReCharge! after school or anytime 
• Guide to physical activity in schools

Help parents make healthy choices for their families

Parents play a key role in making healthy choices for their children as role models and because the earliest decisions about food and physical activity happen at home. If kids see parents enjoying nutritious foods and being active, they’re more likely to do the same. But in today’s busy world, it isn’t always easy. 

• Find practical information, tips and tools for your family at home and school in our Family Corner
• See how healthy kids are ready learners

Make healthy, affordable food available nationwide

More than 23 million Americans, including 6.5 million children, live in low-income urban and rural neighborhoods that are more than a mile from a supermarket. These communities, where access to quality, affordable and nutritious foods is limited, are known as food deserts.

Action for Healthy Kids has a special focus on working with schools and communities like these that lack the expertise, knowledge, facilities and funding to create meaningful and sustainable change themselves.