Weight loss programs

I don’t think it’s a big secret that for a long, long time, school lunches have been about the furthest thing from what we’d all call healthy. From the availability of actual fast-food brands in the school lunchroom, to the vending machines in the hallways, to the all around unbalanced meals served in cafeterias, it’s clear that lunches and school food has been and still is a problem.

Congress has stepped in and that could mean a big goodbye to sodas, candy, sweets and fatty foods in schools around the nation. Apparently, Congress has officially asked the Institute of Medicine to develop a strict set of standards for schools across the country. Finally! How’s this for a sweet quote from the article, “The alarming increase in childhood obesity rates has galvanized parents and schools across the nation to find ways to improve children’s diets and health, and we hope our report will assist that effort,” said Virginia A. Stallings, head of the committee that prepared the report. “Making sure that all foods and drinks available in schools meet nutrition standards is one more way schools can help children establish lifelong healthy eating habits…”

As I mentioned in my previous post, a whole lot more of this needs to be going on, in a whole lot more places. Everyone needs to mobilize, get educated, and spread the word about health and the need for positive fitness attitudes. Read the article then head over to Fit Express and check out all of our hydraulic resistance circuit training equipment, we have something for everyone and at only 30 minutes a day, you can’t afford to NOT work out!