Can we really slim down the next generation of Americans, help our school children shed the extra pounds that could spell lifetimes with high prospects of type 2 diabetes or heart problems?
Michelle Obama is trying hard to reach parents with her "Let's Move" campaign. Scientific evidence is being mustered. The link to America's military preparedness is being made. As Sen. Mark Udall, D-Colo., wrote recently to the first lady, nearly a third of 17- to 24-year-olds are unfit for military service due to their weight or lack of fitness.
But the national effort shouldn't obscure individual cities' efforts. And a surprise leader is the nation's capital. The District of Columbia last month approved some of America's strictest rules, aiming to curb the overweight and obese conditions that plague no less than 35 percent of its public school children - one of the nation's highest rates.
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