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Posts tagged: Healthy Incentives Pilot

Hampden County, Mass. To Conduct First Healthy Incentives Pilot

One of our Nation’s most pressing health challenges today is obesity with one in three children in America either overweight or obese.  Low-income individuals are particularly at-risk.  That’s why First Lady Michelle Obama launched Let’s Move!  The campaign mobilizes the combined resources of the federal government, state and local governments, foundations, business and nonprofit organizations to help solve the problem of childhood obesity within a generation so that children born today will reach adulthood at a healthy weight and live healthier lives. Read more »