Some healthy solutions to childhood obesity include:
1. Encourage kids to exercise and engage in active play.
2. Reduce or eliminate video games and limit TV time.
3. Place them, and the entire family, on healthier diets, including more fruits and vegetables and less fat.
4. Restrict or remove "fast food" from the entire family’s diet.
5. Quit smoking to offer children a healthy role model, and encourage them never to start.
6. Reduce or eliminate alcohol consumption, again to offer your children a healthy role model and to encourage them never to start.

7. Petition your schools to include more physical education, with an emphasis on active games that involve even non-athletic children.
8. Ask educators to remove soft drink and vending machines from schools, and provide healthy meals and snacks...and you do the same!
9. "There’s no magic here," McGill says. "People have to eat less and move around more, although everything in our culture is against that."
And, ask us about our health development programs for children and adults.