The Body Project: School Program Measures Obesity Right Along With Grades

The Huffington Post visited the Norman Thomas High School in Manhattan to see how the BODY project works in real life. (Video by Hunter Stuart)

Walk into just about any public high school in the U.S. and you will see a lot of the kids overweight or obese. In fact, 40 percent (!) are. This disturbing finding has not gone unnoticed in the White House where First Lady Michelle Obama has initiated the “Let’s Move” campaign with its critical message that obesity is bad for our children’s health, right now and into the future. But there is another message that has not yet reached the Education Secretary, Arne Duncan, or other educators seeking to improve education in this country: that message is that being overweight or obese interferes with a young person’s ability to learn at school. (more…)