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Obesity in America is at an all time high. We’ve all heard the news stories on our nation’s growing waistlines, but more shockingly, there is an enormous increase in childhood obesity. Diseases that were always thought of as “adult” issues, like type 2 diabetes, high cholesterol, and high blood pressure, are now found in children as young as eight years old. So what can we do as a nation about our childhood obesity problem? How do you educate every American family about the importance of eating right and exercise? Well, you can’t. You absolutely cannot tell anyone how to raise their children or how to feed them. But it can start with policy makers who can dictate what happens outside the home.

In my daughter’s school, they are actively fighting childhood obesity. They switched catering to a company that offers low-cal highly nutritious meals with daily healthy alternatives. Gone are birthday cakes, cupcakes, soda and sugary drinks. They are outlawed! Fresh fruit, high fiber, and low fat choices are offered and encouraged. As for the exercise component, the American government has issued guidelines about how often children should exercise and schools are getting kids moving. Teach them young and they learn for a lifetime. My daughter jumps rope, climbs walls, walks on balance beams, and dances to music in her gym classes. She is also taking a kid’s Yoga mat class once a week that the school offers.

Whatever it is, just getting moving is the first step. Changing the way young kids feel about exercise and changing their eating habits is an awesome task. But little by little, change can happen and we can reverse the dangerous path of childhood obesity.