NFL Play 60 aims to tackle childhood obesity

If your child is a football fan, point him or her toward NFL Play 60, a site created by the National Football League to promote its youth health and fitness campaign. At the site and at in-person events at schools and games, NFL players encourage kids and teens to be active for at least 60 minutes a day. Your tween may not listen when you tell him to get off the couch and go play—but maybe he will if quarterback Drew Brees suggests it.

At the site, kids can issue fitness challenges to their favorite players, pledge to take on a challenge of their own, get a daily fitness tip, ask a trainer a fitness question, or find dozens of ideas for active play.

The NFL also backs Keep Gym in School, which promotes the importance of physical education and offers grants to schools that need financial support for PE.

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