NLC awarded 541 medals to 118 communities across the country in recognition of their outstanding efforts to complete health and wellness goals for Let's Move! Cities, Towns and Counties.
At an event held July 18 in Philadelphia, NLC President Ted Ellis joined First Lady Michelle Obama and other city leaders to announce a new NLC project that will help local elected officials reduce childhood obesity.
A new brief released by Leadership for Healthy Communities, a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, suggests that policymakers seeking to address hunger in their communities can find solutions that will also contribute significantly to reversing the childhood obesity epidemic.
On April 18, 2012 the YEF Institute hosted a free, hour-long webinar on “Healthy Food Shortage: How Cities Can Use Federal Meals Programs to Reduce Childhood Hunger and Obesity.” An archived recording is available.
Obesity and related diseases take a dire toll on cities, threatening the health of their most vulnerable populations — including children and youth — while at the same time draining city coffers. California cities participating in the Healthy Eating Active Living (HEAL) Cities Campaign are putting land use, economic development and employee wellness policies in place to change that.
The Healthy Eating Active Living (HEAL) Cities Campaign is a partnership between the League of California Cities and the California Center for Public Health Advocacy that works with California cities to adopt policies that will improve the physical activity and food environments for all residents.
