Move More North Carolina:
Recommended Standards for After-School Physical Activity
Welcome to the Move More After School NC Web site, North Carolina’s resource to support the Move More After-School Standards. The Move More After-School Standards outline how after-school programs can help young people meet the 60 minutes or more of daily physical activity recommended in the 2008 Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans.
Whether you are a provider, community partner or parent, you will find a wealth of resources to support the Move More After-School Standards.
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Let’s Move: Solving Childhood Obesity
First Lady Michelle Obama announced an ambitious national goal of solving the challenge of childhood obesity within a generation so that children born today will reach adulthood at a healthy weight and unveiled a nationwide campaign – Let’s Move – to help achieve it.
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Let’s Move: Solving Childhood Obesity
The Let’s Move campaign will combat the epidemic of childhood obesity through a comprehensive, collaborative and community-oriented approach that builds on effective strategies, and mobilizes public and private sector resources. Let’s Move will engage every sector impacting the health of children to achieve the national goal, and will provide schools, families and communities simple tools to help kids be more active, eat better, and get healthy.
Main goals of the campaign include:
- Helping Parents Make Healthy Family Choices
- Serving Healthier Food in Schools
- Accessing Healthy, Affordable Food
- Increasing Physical Activity
Read the press release
Watch video of the Let’s Move kickoff party
Childhood Obesity Task Force Memorandum
