HHS Teams Up with Olympic Athletes to Fight Childhood Obesity

March 3, 2010, 12:01 pm by US Department of Health and Human Services

Today the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released the first in a series of web videos and public service announcements to promote First Lady Michelle Obama’s national initiative, Let’s Move, to solve childhood obesity within a generation.

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