Change is never easy. And when it comes to changing eating habits and personal behaviors, it’s all the more difficult.

Yet, helping young people lead healthier, more active lives requires concrete changes in their everyday lives - at school, in the community and at home. The facts about obesity and the need for exercise and healthy food speak for themselves, loudly and clearly.

In this section, we are giving you straight talk about the need for more nutritious eating and physical activity, and about obesity and its causes. Here, you’ll get the facts, and nothing but the facts.

Learn more by clicking on the links on the left.