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iVillage and Dominique Dawes Raise the Bar With Get Moving Now
This summer, iVillage and the President's Challenge, the premier program of the President's Council on Fitness, Sports and Nutrition (PCFSN), have banded together in a national effort to create more...
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Why Former Olympic Gymnast Dominique Dawes Wants YOU to Get Moving - With a...
Watch our chat with Dominique Dawes, one of the celebrity coaches in iVillage's Get Moving Now Community Challenge. She shows how something as easy as jumping rope once a day can mean a healthier you.
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5 Questions for Dominique Dawes on 'Get Moving' Challenge
As a three-time Olympian, she inspired an entire generation of young girls to reach for their dreams. Now at age 34 she's still the go to girl for inspiration; but this time she's inspiring women and...
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Boy Scouts Prepared to Battle Obesity
For more than 100 years, the Boy Scouts have attracted new recruits with the lure of camping, boating and other outdoor activities. But because they spend so much time indoors watching TV and playing...
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Losers Are Winners
The goal was to inspire some regular people - teachers, managers, sisters - to take a free eight-week fitness challenge and transform them from couch potato to hot potato. It worked.
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Bismarck Boy Scouts Work Out to Win Fitness Award
A Medcenter pediatrician is one of 16 national Boy Scout leaders to complete an activity challenge as part of the President`s Council on Fitness, Sports and Nutrition. Dr. Stephen McDonough was...
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Swim, Bike, Run: D.C. Area Youth Give It a 'Tri'
Shellie Pfohl, Executive Director, President's Council on Fitness, Sports and Nutrition. Last Friday, August 5, more than 100 Washington, D.C. area youth competed in all three sports at the Anacostia...
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Dr. Koh throws out first pitch at the HHS 'Night at the Ballpark!'
Dr. Howard Koh, HHS Assistant Secretary for Health. Late last month, I had the privilege of joining more than 2,300 fellow Health and Human Services (HHS) employees for a great night at the Washington...
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Boy Scouts Get SCOUTStrong to Earn their PALA
This year, the BSA created SCOUTStrong, a Scout-specific Presidential Active Lifestyle Award(PALA) challenge. In keeping with PCFSN's mission to empower all Americans to lead active, healthy lifestyles...
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Fit to Fight with the President's Challenge
Lauren Darensbourg, President's Council on Fitness, Sports & Nutrition. The Council got active with more than 300 local teenagers at the 40thAnnual Tuskegee Airmen National Convention in...
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On the Move, Athletically, Against Arthritis
The Arthritis Foundation is taking a new tack with its public service advertising, introducing a hard-hitting campaign that urges people to take up exercise as a weapon against pain.
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First Lady Michelle Obama Attends US Open 2011
First Lady Michelle Obama applauded the United States Tennis Association (USTA) for engaging millions of children in tennis, introducing tennis into thousands of elementary schools throughout the...
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Scout Troop Gains Notice for Activities
A portion of the oath taken by every Boy Scout is a pledge to be physically fit. For members of Boy Scout Troop 123, that section of the oath has come to define a great deal of their time spent together.
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Nickelodeon's Capital Play Day
On Saturday, Nickelodeon, the children's television network, will for the first time take its annual event to Washington. To be held on the Ellipse, this year's day of games and activities will bring...
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Success is Moving Towards a Healthier Future
Last September, First Lady Michelle Obama and the President's Council members launched the Million PALA Challenge, with the goal of one million Americans achieving the Presidential Active Lifestyle...
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Eating and Moving with Miner Elementary Students
Dominique Dawes, Co-Chair, President’s Council on Fitness Sports & Nutrition, discusses her recent visit to Miner Elementary School in Washington, D.C.
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President Obama Announces More Key Administration Posts
President's Council Excited to Announce Addition of Dr. Jayne Greenberg to Council.
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Challenge Yourself to get Healthy and Earn PALA+
Blog by Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, MD, MBA - Member, President's Council on Fitness, Sports and Nutrition and President and CEO, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
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Council member Cornell McClellan to deliver keynote remarks at the ACE Symposium
Corrnell McClellan is a Fitness Consultant and Personal Trainer to the First Family of United States of America and is the owner of Naturally Fit, a training and wellness facility in Chicago. He began...
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If the President Can Stay Healthy Through the Holidays, So Can You
You think you have a rough time avoiding temptation over the holidays? It's probably nothing compared with the parties the president and first lady have to navigate. But as Cornell McLellan tells it,...
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Pump It Up with the White House
I've just returned from my trip to keynote the American Council on Exercise's (ACE) annual meeting in San Diego. ACE certifies fitness professionals from all over the world and the convention hotel was...
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President's Challenge Youth Physical Fitness Test Update
The President's Challenge Physical Activity, Nutrition and Fitness Awards program is the long-standing program of the President's Council on Fitness, Sports, and Nutrition administered through a...
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Nominate a deserving individual or program for a 2012 Lifetime Achievement or...
PCFSN gives out numerous awards during the year for those who have contributed in various ways to the advancement or promotion of physical activity, fitness, or sports nationwide.
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Dominique Dawes, Olympian to Health Advocate
In her budding teenage years, Dominique Dawes had already captured the Olympic spotlight, becoming the first female African-American gymnast to win an individual medal in her sport at the Games.After...
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President Obama Announces Dr. Jayne Greenberg's Appointment to the...
President Barack Obama has announced the appointment of Dr. Jayne D. Greenberg to the President’s Council on Fitness, Sports and Nutrition (PCFSN). PCFSN is a committee of volunteer citizens who advise...
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Michelle Obama Visits Longwood Church, Disney for 'Let's Move!'
First lady Michelle Obama toured Orlando on Saturday to preach a gospel of healthy eating at a Central Florida church and to motivate some 500 kids to exercise at Disney World. Her appearances at...
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CNN.com - Working Together for the Health of America's Children
Back when we first launched Let's Move! - a nationwide initiative to end our childhood obesity epidemic -- in the back of my mind, I wondered whether it was really possible to make a difference. I knew...
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National Nutrition Month
Today marks the start of National Nutrition Month, a time for Americans to set healthy eating goals and develop lifelong habits that, along with regular physical activity, can help reduce the risk of...
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