Please take action on this American Diabetes Association Action Alert:
Ask your members of Congress to make the health of our children a priority by supporting physical education in schools! Our children deserve nothing less.
First, the bad news: Childhood obesity has reached epidemic levels. If we don’t take action, one in three adults in America will have diabetes by the year 2050.
Now, the good news: You can help change this alarming future.
Obesity is a top risk factor for type 2 diabetes. Yet, physical education programs have been drastically cut back in public schools around the country. Experts recommend that kids have at least an hour of physical activity per day. However, only 4% of elementary, 8% of middle, and 2% of high schools provide daily physical education.
But we can change this. Urge your senators and representative to support physical education in schools by cosponsoring the Fitness Integrated in Teaching (FIT) Kids Act.
The FIT Kids Act encourages public schools to offer physical education to help reverse the obesity epidemic and restores grants so schools can improve their physical education programs. Our schools help kids to learn and grow, and establishing healthy lifestyles at school is an important way to give students a head start on active lives AND improve academic performance.
Contact your members of Congress today and urge them to give our kids a healthy future!
Sincerely,
Gina Gavlak
Chair, National Advocacy Committee
American Diabetes Association
P.S. It just takes a minute to step up for our kids’ health. Will you contact your members of Congress?
And keep updated on the ADA Advocacy Website: http://www.diabetes.org/advocacy/
In case you missed the AADE Advocacy Update Call on 5/14:
The call was presented by Chuck Macfarlane AADE's CEO and Deborah Outlaw, President of the Outlaw Group and AADE's Washington Government Affairs Advisor.
For those that did not attend and for those interested in listening in again, attached you will find the audio recording and handouts.