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The Campaign to End Obesity
Invites You to a Congressional Briefing on the
Relationship between Physical Activity and Academic
Achievement
10 am on Tuesday, December 4th
in Senate Capitol Room SC-4
[invite attached]
Please join us for "Fit and Healthy
Make the Mind Wealthy: Why U.S. Education Policy Should
Promote Physical Activity and How to Make it Happen in
the 110th Congress".
Hosted by the Honorable Tom Harkin and
including special guest Alana Beard of the Washington
Mystics, the briefing will feature Dr. Darla Castelli
from the University of Illinois who will discuss the
latest research on physical fitness and the brain.
Additional experts will then discuss the current
physical and health education landscape and
opportunities for increasing physical fitness via
education policy.
This will be a widely-attended event
and light refreshments will be
served.
This event is supported by the
American Heart Association, the Campaign to End Obesity,
the National Association for Sport and Physical
Education, the National Coalition for Promoting Physical
Activity, Nike, Inc., Shaping America's Health, the
Sporting Goods Manufacturers Association, and the YMCA
of the USA. |
