LBI Family Walk

Registration

If you want to do more:
Check out Walk New Jersey Point to Point, where you can
virtually walk across New Jersey, from Cape May Point to High Point

We Can!™ Resources for Parents and the Public
This page contains resources that offer practical tips and tools
on how families can help prevent childhood overweight
and maintain a healthy weight by making smart food choices,
increasing physical activity, and reducing screen time.

 Start Walking Now
Create a personalized walking plan and find lots of other information on exercise and nutrition
 to help you learn more about keeping your heart healthy.

Shape Up America
Offers Tips for Family Fitness Fun and Tips for Getting Your Family on Track.

Fruits & Veggies—More Matters™
A new health initiative that replaces the existing 5 A Day awareness program
and encourages increased daily intake of fruits and vegetables.
The website offers recipes as well as activities and tips for getting children involved.

Use MyPyramid
Based on the USDA Dietary Guidelines for Americans,
this site helps you use MyPyramid to make healthy food choices every day.

FoodInsight
This website provides food safety, nutrition, and healthful eating information
to help you make good and safe food choices.

May is National Physical Fitness and Sports Month

According to Melissa Johnson, executive director of the President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, which started National Physical Activity and Sports Month in 1983, “Americans of all ages need to incorporate more movement in their daily lives. Adults need at least 30 minutes of activity 5 days each week. This can be done by choosing to bike or walk instead of driving, taking stairs instead of elevators, or pushing a lawnmower instead of riding one. Children need at least 60 minutes of active play daily. They need to run, climb, jump, and just get up and move around, away from their desks, the television and computer games.”

Twenty minutes of vigorous physical activity three times a week, such as sports, aerobics, working out in the gym, and running, have added health benefits. Johnson says, “But it’s important to understand that you don’t need to sweat in a gym or run a marathon to reap the health benefits of daily physical activity. Even 30 minutes a day, broken up into shorter increments of ten or fifteen minutes, can greatly improve your health.”

For information about the President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, go to www.fitness.gov. To start a physical activity and fitness program, log on to www.presidentschallenge.org and sign up to take the President’s Challenge.