President Clinton Address Inequities in Childhood Obesity.

It is okay to let your children learn about junk food and indulge in it. It is also okay to monitor what your children eat. Many parents forget to treat a child as a child and not as an adult, so they lose their handle on the child at a very young age. Children are suppose to be the future on our countries they will lead the way for other children to come. What you teach them and how you grow them is of utmost importance. What they eat affect their health, taking things away will put them in a place where they feel that now they have to over indulge when they are out of your site. Learn to be fear and reasonable when it comes to proportions and what your child can consume. Do not try to band things from them or tell them that they can not have certain things. Instead show them what the difference is in how they consume foods and always keep them active. There is no specific way to do things you just have to take certain things you do and how you do it into consideration.

 Clinton Foundation and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Hosting Forum to Address Inequities in Childhood Obesity

Forum to take place at Newark Museum and Feature Joy Bauer and Jenna Wolfe, Today Show; Richard Carmona, Former Surgeon General and President, Canyon Ranch Institute; Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, President and CEO, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; Sam Kass, Executive Director, Let’s Move!; Susan Neely, President and CEO, American Beverage Association

(Newark, NJ) — On May 8, 2014, the Clinton Health Matters Initiative and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, in collaboration with Grantmakers in Health, will host a “Forum Without Walls” to confront tough questions and provide collaborative solutions to help reduce childhood obesity across all populations and communities in the United States. The forum will bring together more than 250 thought leaders from business, philanthropy, health, education, and nonprofits to focus on solutions to the challenges that prevent kids from having access to healthier foods, physical activity, and health care. While high rates of childhood obesity are starting to decline in parts of the country, troubling disparities persist, especially in low-income and minority communities. The forum will be held at the Newark Museum in Newark, New Jersey and will feature four panel discussions throughout the day.