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Raising a Healthier Generation

The mission of the Alliance for a Healthier Generation is to eliminate childhood obesity and to inspire all young people in the United States to develop lifelong, healthy habits.

The goals of the Alliance for a Healthier Generation are two-fold

1. To stop the nationwide increase in childhood obesity by 2010.

2. To empower kids nationwide to make healthy lifestyle choices.

The Alliance for a Healthier Generation works to by positively affect change by targeting the places that can make a difference to a child's health, in their homes, schools, restaurants, doctor's offices, and the community.

The Alliance for a Healthier Generation is a partnership between the American Heart Association and the William J. Clinton Foundation, both non-profit organizations. As a department of both of these non-profit organizations, the Alliance for a Healthier Generations utilizes the non-profit status of the two partner organizations.

Contents at a Glance

Will My Daughters' Generation Live Short...
Alarming Trends With Our Children
Alliance for a Healthier Generation Vide...
Can We Turn Around the Current Trends?
Alliance for a Healthier Generation
Ensuring the Health & Well-being of...

Alliance for A Healthier Generation - Working to Eliminate Childhood Obesity

For the first time in American history, our current generation of children could live shorter lives than their parents.

The cause is obesity, defined simply as too much body fat, which can lead to heart disease, diabetes and other illnesses.

William J. Clinton

Alarming Trends With Our Children

Will our children's lifespan be less than ours?

We are looking at a generation of children who could become the first generation in modern history whose lifespan is less than that of their parents.

An estimated 15% of children and adolescents ages 6 to 19 are currently overweight.
Estimates are between 40 - 80 percent of overweight children will become overweight adults.
If current trends continue, one of three American children born in 2000, will suffer type 2 diabetes during his or her lifetime.
For Children from ethnic/racially diverse populations half will suffer type 2 diabetes during his or her lifetime.
Recent statics indicate that 3 out of 4 Americans will be obese by 2015.
Children who have an overweight parent are 80% more likely to become overweight themselves.

Alliance for a Healthier Generation Video: Eliminating childhood obesity

President Clinton meets with Justin DeParis, a Youth Advisory Board member of the Alliance for a Healthier Generation, to discuss our nation's growing health crisis.

Can We Turn Around the Current Trends?

More Children Now Diagnosed with Adult Diseases

The Alliance for a Healthier Generation is working to ensure all children have healthy futures.

More and more kids are being diagnosed with adult diseases like high blood pressure and type II diabetes, but it doesn't have to be that way.

The Alliance [For a Healthier Generation] is working to ensure that all kids have healthy futures.

Robert Eckel, MD
Immediate Past President of the American Heart Association

Alliance for a Healthier Generation

Inspiring Young People to Develop Lifelong, Healthy Habits

More information about the Alliance for a Healthier Generation.

The Alliance for a Healthier Generation: The Alliance for a Healthier Generation is a partnership between the American Heart Association and the William J. Clinton Foundation. Along with our co-leader Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger of California, the Alliance will work nationally to create awareness and real solutions for the childhood obesity epidemic.
Go Healthy Challenge: The Go Healthy Challenge is an on-air, online and community-based movement that empowers kids to take the lead in making their lives, schools and communities healthier.
The Alliance for a Healthier Generation Healthy Schools Program: The Alliance for a Healthier Generation Healthy Schools Program provides real tools and solutions for schools to become healthier places for students and teachers, without creating budget problems. The Healthy Schools Program is a great way for schools to get the help they need to become healthier places for staff and students.
Engaging the Healthcare System: The American Heart Association and other organizations have materials designed for healthcare professionals to help them identify and prevent childhood obesity. The Alliance is also collaborating with healthcare experts to facilitate better solutions for providers and the healthcare delivery system in addressing the obesity epidemic.

Ensuring the Health & Well-being of Our Children

Alliance for a Healthier Generation - Combatting Childhood Obesity Before it Begins

Ensuring the health and well-being of our children is my top priority. Prevention of this unhealthy epidemic [of childhood obesity] is crucial to improving the welfare of all our young people.

That's why I have enacted the toughest school nutrition standards in the nation, so we can start early to avoid health problems later in life.

The Alliance for a Healthier Generation enables us to combat childhood obesity before it begins, so our children can live longer, healthier lives.

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger
Co-Leader, Alliance for a Healthier Generation

Encouraging Healthy Lifestyles for Everyone

From the University of Warwick, UK

Obesity - A Public Health Crisis

Raising Healthy Children Through Education

The obesity epidemic in our country represents a true public health crisis. Obesity leads to major medical problems such as diabetes, sleep disorders and depression.

Educating parents and their children about the importance of physical activity and a balanced diet is a key component of raising a nation of healthy children.

Vice Admiral Carmona
Surgeon General of the United States

Ready to Take the Go Healthy Challenge?

Empowers Kids to Take the Lead in Living Healthier Lives

Challenge Your Family to Go Healthy!

The Go Healthy Challenge is an on-air, online and community-based movement that empowers kids to take the lead in making their lives, schools and communities healthier.

Goals for the Challenge
The goal for this Go Healthy Challenge is to engage at least 2 million kids to take the Go Healthy PledgeTM to eat better and exercise more.

What is the Go Healthy Challenge?
The Go Healthy Challenge is

Source: Alliance for a Healthier Generation. The Go Healthy Challenge (TM) Kids Movement

Prevent Heart Disease

Cultivate Early Healthy Habits

The Alliance For a Healthier Generation is helping American families to cultivate early healthy habits.

The best way to prevent heart disease in adults is to cultivate healthy lifestyle habits in children.

I hope that this effort (Alliance for a Healthier Generation) will help American families, & especially children, to eat better, be more active, and live longer lives.

Governor Mike Huckabee

Books with on Healthy Eating for Children

Available on Amazon

Former President Bill Clinton on Childhood Obesity

On YouTube

An announcement by the Alliance for a Healthier Generation on a major industry agreement on childhood obesity.

Videos to Encourage Children to Be More Active

Available on Amazon

A collection of recommended videos to get children moving.

Squidoo Lenses Encouraging Children to be Active

Walking for Health - Motivational Running Activity

News from the Alliance for a Healthier Generation

Another Squidoo Lens 4 Children's Health

Raising Children to Be Healthy 4 Life

Giving Young People Hope for a Healthier Future