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Article: Get kids moving again! Industry takes steps to combat childhood obesity.(reducing childhood obesity)
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- Snack Food & Wholesale Bakery
- Article date:
- December 1, 2005
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If you visit the Snack Food Association's website, www.sfa.org, you'll find in the upper right corner of the home page an image and link to "Kidnetic.com." It's a healthy eating and active living Web site for youngsters ages 9-12 and their families, and it's designed to help fight a big problem in this country: childhood obesity.
SFA is sponsoring Kidnetic because of the critical link between physical activity and good health. Kidnetic.com is the first component of ACTIVATE, a healthy eating and active living initiative formed by the International Food Information Council (IFIC) Foundation. It's committed to promoting healthy family lifestyles to help prevent ...