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Family Circle Magazine and Partnership for a Healthier America Bring Childhood Obesity Roundtable Series to New York City

Dr. Sapna Parikh, Medical Correspondent, WABC New York Moderated “America’s Physical Inactivity Crisis” Panel Featuring Leaders from the Clinton Foundation, Family Circle, New York City Department of Education, Nike, PHA and YMCA of Greater New York

New York, NY (September 24, 2013) – The Partnership for a Healthier America (PHA) and Family Circle magazine Tuesday hosted the third in a series of solutions-oriented roundtable discussions tackling the childhood obesity crisis in the United States. PHA works with honorary chair First Lady Michelle Obama and the private sector to end the childhood obesity epidemic within the next generation, and Family Circle magazine delivers moms of tweens and teens the information they need to raise healthy children by offering practical advice and recipes for nutritious weeknight meals.

Today, less than 50% of children nationwide receive the recommended amount of daily physical activity. This lack of exercise has implications for their physical and mental well-being, as well as their chronic disease risk, including increasing rates of becoming overweight or obese. Since 2001, 44 percent of school administrators have reported cutting significant time from physical education and recess.

Uniting the nation’s leading experts to discuss eliminating barriers and leveraging the current built environment for physical activity in schools and child care centers, the panel included Ginny Ehrlich, CEO, Clinton Health Matters Initiative, the Clinton Foundation; Linda Fears, VP/Editor-in-Chief, Family Circle; Kathleen Grimm, Deputy Chancellor, NYC Department of Education; Caitlin Morris, North America Executive Director, Access to Sport, Nike; Lawrence A. Soler, President and CEO, Partnership for a Healthier America; and Jack Lund, President & CEO of YMCA of Greater New York. Dr. Sapna Parikh, Medical Correspondent, WABC New York, moderated the roundtable discussion.

Join the conversation on social media by using the hashtag #HealthyEasy. Photos are available upon request, please contact news@ahealthieramerica.org.

About Partnership for a Healthier America

The Partnership for a Healthier America (PHA) is devoted to working with the private sector to ensure the health of our nation’s youth by solving the childhood obesity crisis. In 2010, PHA was created in conjunction with – but independent from – First Lady Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move! effort. PHA is a nonpartisan nonprofit organization that is led by some of the nation’s most respected health and childhood obesity experts. PHA brings together public, private and nonprofit leaders to broker meaningful commitments and develop strategies to end childhood obesity. Most important, PHA ensures that commitments made are commitments kept by working with unbiased, third parties to monitor and publicly report on the progress our partners are making. For more information about PHA, please visit www.aHealthierAmerica.org and follow PHA on Twitter @PHAnews.

About Family Circle

Published 12 times a year by Meredith Corporation, with a circulation of 4 million and 18 million readers, Family Circle is one of the most widely read monthly magazines in the world. Family Circle provides smart relevant advice, sensible solutions, and inspiration in a voice that encourages and celebrates success in its pages and online at www.familycircle.com. Family Circle has always been committed to women’s issues and in 1973 became the first women’s magazine to fully underwrite a professional women’s sporting event, the Family Circle Cup, an annual women’s tennis tournament held in April in Charleston, S.C., at Family Circle Magazine Stadium. For more information about Family Circle, please visit FamilyCircle.com and follow Family Circle on Twitter @FamilyCircle.

About the YMCA of Greater New York

The YMCA of Greater New York is, and always will be, dedicated to building healthy, confident, connected and secure children, adults, families and communities. With a focus on youth development, healthy living and social responsibility, the Y nurtures the potential of every youth and teen, improves New York City’s health and well-being and provides opportunities to give back and support neighbors. In scores of neighborhoods across the five boroughs and its camp upstate, the Y makes accessible the support and opportunities that empower more than 400,000 New Yorkers to learn, grow and thrive. Visit ymcanyc.org.