As Kids Head Back to School, National Advocacy Group Issues Report on Progress of School Wellness

As Kids Head Back to School, National Advocacy Group Issues Report on Progress of School Wellness SYRACUSE, N.Y., Aug. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- "The passage of federal legislation two years ago mandating schools to adopt wellness policies -- a response by Congress to the alarming surge in childhood obesity -- will be looked back upon as the launching pad for the school wellness movement," says a 60-page report issued this week by the Action For Healthy Kids Coalition (AFHK). "That legislation has gotten the ball rolling by identifying schools as playing a key role in the development of children's eating and exercising habits," says Andrea Thompson, Vice President of School Marketing for the American Dairy Association and Dairy Council, Inc., serving schools in New York, Northern and Central NJ and Northeast PA. (Photo:... [read full story]