Start Healthy Diet and Fitness Education early - mandate education in elementary schools.

For me, health education didn't really kick in until my mid 20's. That was due to the lack of knowledge presented to through elementary, middle and high school, and the lack of knowledge from my parents. They grew up on meals cooked with butter and lard and weren't taught about good fats and bad fats either, so they didn't necessarily have the knowledge to pass on. I think that early education and awareness is key to living a healthy lifestyle and making healthy choices in your adult life as well as through your adolescent and teen years. There are ways to teach our children so that they will retain the information while having fun with it. In the long run, we will have healthier children, lower obesity rates, decrease  in illness and disease, decrease in drug and alcohol abuse, decrease in crime...there are numerous benefits to start educating our children early about being healthy and active. It should be required course in Elementary, Middle and High School. Please fight for your child's health, and the health of their children and so on.