Recently there has been a lot of discussion over banning toys from fast food meals and lawsuits against fast food companies for enticing children to eat fatty foods. Some people are of the opinion that it really doesn’t matter what goody is in a kids meal, it’s the ultimate responsibility of parents what children eat. [...]

Tell us what you think will come out of Michelle Obama’s new campaign to fight childhood obesity.

I doubt anyone has escaped the news surrounding childhood obesity this week. Especially the speech given by First Lady Michelle Obama detailing the staggering statistics. Statistics that those of us in the fitness and health industries have watched rise steadily over the past 20 years. Yes, now we have the White House on it. But [...]

One of my adult fitness students was telling me the other day about a project done with the local school district this Halloween.  Instead of children collecting, eating and getting sick from all the Halloween candy, the administrators came up with a great idea. All children were encouraged to bring whatever candy they received during [...]

If you type into Google, ‘preschool fitness tax credit’, you’ll see 3 pages of information links on how parents can earn up to $500 of tax relief on fitness programming expenses for preschoolers. Sounds great, right? How can you get started? Well if you live in Canada you’re all set. If you live in the [...]