[WATCH]: Schools and childhood obesity - Boston Children's Hospital - Top 20 Health Challenges

Schools have undertaken a number of special initiatives to combat childhood obesity, including: offering healthier lunches; eliminating soda from vending machines; and weighing students, then sending parents "fat" report cards. Do these programs make a difference? What can and should schools do to help their students achieve and maintain a normal weight? No one effort will, in itself, reverse the obesity epidemic. But each of these initiatives empower parents and make it just a little bit easier for families to lead a healthy lifestyle. The most important focus in schools should be improving nutrition quality at all meals and snacks, and ensuring students have plenty of time for PE and after school active recreation. It makes no

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