Fuel Up to Play 60 and Let’s Move! are working together to strengthen each program’s efforts to improve the overall health of our nation’s youth. Together, the two programs are encouraging youth to join the Fuel Up to Play 60 movement, rallying schools to meet the U.S Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) HealthierUS School Challenge (HUSSC) through participation in Fuel Up to Play 60, and promoting the President’s Council on Fitness, Sports and Nutrition’s Presidential Active Lifestyle Award (PALA+).
Check out the press release below to learn more about how these programs are working together in the fight against childhood obesity or click here to read the story on PR Newswire.
Let’s Move! Release
Posted September 26, 2011
More than 80,000 Fuel Up to Play 60 youth and adults chipped in to help meet “Million PALA Challenge.” Launched by U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, President’s Challenge Program of the Program’s Council on Fitness, Sports and Nutrition (PCFSN), and the First Lady’s Let’s Move! initiative in September 2010, the Presidential Active Lifestyle Award (PALA) Challenge aimed to have one million American meet requirements to earn a Presidential Lifestyle Award by September 2011.
On Saturday, September 24, Fuel Up to Play 60 was honored by Secretary Sebelius at an event on the National Mall commemorating the end of the Million PALA Challenge. Read more about the ceremony:
Fuel Up to Play 60 – Million PALA Challenge Announcement.
