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>> well, that was a greatworkout! thank you, donna and cornell forgetting us to sweat, i love the stretch, i think i'm actuallyback to my prepregnancy weight now.that was impressive. but next we're going to move on.we're going to hear from
North Haven Health And Racquet, dr. james rimmer, science boardchair, and dr. steven mcdonough, councilmember and liaison to thescience board for an update on the science board.>> thank you, dominique, and it's my pleasure to be here thismorning and to give you a very,
very brief overview of the workthat the science board has conducted this year.i would first like to first specially thank hannah torkelson, who's been sort of myguide in ensuring that these phone calls and meetings andreports are done with the highest level of efficiency, soi appreciate that. so if we can turn to the firstslide, please? just a couple of highlights onthis slide, the roles and responsibilities of the scienceboard were formalized in 2013. the importance of that is toensure that what the science
board's role is is really to serveas an advisory committee to the president's council, so i wouldlike to encourage all of the board members to consider usingthe science board when there is a question or an issueassociated with every level of evidence.the importance of what we do is to ensure that there's thehighest level of scientific integrity in the work that youpromote. the adult fitness test wasrelaunched in 2014. i think we would all agree thatthe president's council legacy
was associated with the fitnesstest for children, but if you are aware of the literature...the scientificliterature, fitness is extremely important for adults as well.so the importance of the adult fitness test is to reallyencourage healthcare professionals and even employersto consider recommending the test to promote the importanceof fitness. and then the third bullet isreally addressing the importance of the science board in servingon federal advisory committees and two noteworthy ones are thephysical activity guidelines
committee, the mid-course reviewwas done a couple of years ago and we had several board members who were part of that. we also have board members who haveexpertise in nutrition who served on the dietary guidelinescommittee. just as a note of information,guidelines are extremely important because all americansare encouraged to participate in them.so extremely important that we have science board members thatconnect with these committees and then come back to you andhighlight the scientific
elements of this. next slide please.when this first started, and again i've been around for avery long time, it was sort of a mimeograph document, and icannot emphasize how attractive this elevate health publicationis, so i'd like to give special thanks to shellie's staffbecause it is a wonderful set of information that relates to notonly the elements of science but the importance of puttingscience into practice, and if you haven't seen the most recentone which just came out entitled "healthy foods and beverages foryouth in sports," it's really a
magnificent document withcutouts and lots of great information for consumers,professionals and researchers. so again a very importantdocument that the council should be aware of and hopefullypromote. we currently have 22,000subscribers, and one of our goals this year is to try to increase that number by at least two. next slide please. couple of other updates, thewhole concept of engagement and inclusion you've heard onseveral occasions this morning, an inclusion visit,tremendous campaign, it's
ongoing now across the world tothe concept of commit to inclusion.the importance of that is to ensure that the least activepopulations in our society and across the world have increasedaccess to what we know is extremely important, and that isphysical activity and good nutrition.so engagement and inclusion really means trying to get thecouncil members, the science board, and many othercommunities around the country involved in physical activityand nutrition to work together
to promote the elements ofhealth among those who are least served.the working groups that are currently ongoing, we have onetitled the nutrition and behavioral health group, this isalso an extremely important topic, mental health issues inour society today create many elements of poor health, one ofthem being physical inactivity, the other being poor nutrition.so this is a fabulous working group who's really looking atthe intersection of how nutrition affects behavior andhow behavior could lead to
positive or negative outcomes.so it's a great document, they're proposing to develop apeer reviewed journal article as well as a report for thecouncil. the second working group is onactive aging, this has been ongoing for over a year now.over the next 10 or 15 years, the number of people over theage of 65 will double so it's extremely important to reach theolder adult population in our communities today and ensurethat they are protected by engaging in good healthpractices and improved
nutrition.elevate health, we mentioned earlier, which is to increasethe number of subscribers substantially from what itcurrently is, and then this last group is the whole of school physical activity, this has been an ongoing process of looking atwhy are schools involved or not involved in required physicaleducation and what they've recognized this committee isthat it's not necessarily the teachers, or the community thatis not interested in increasing the amount of physical activityand physical education in
schools but rather it's theadministration that they really need to reach.so they're currently working on a report to encourageadministrators to increase the amount of time in physicalactivity, and then from there, i'll just go ahead and turn it over to the second partof the presentation, dr. mcdonough.>> thank you, dr. rimmer. i always thought it would bevery helpful to hang out with people that are smarter than me,and being on the -- listening in on the conversations of thescience board, it's been really
educational for me as aphysician to learn about the science for good nutrition andfitness. in medicine, we are focused onwhat's called evidence-based medicine.if we make recommendations, we have to have justifications andscience behind it. and a science board does anoutstanding job in providing that for healthcare providers,and i think physical educators, when we're looking at gettingmore minutes in schools for our kids to have activities and moreevidence-based information out
there, the better that we canadvocate for improving the situation.i just want to thank you for all that you've done.i know it's competitive to get on the science board.there are a lot of people in your field and the different fields. this is a great honor to be on it and the cream rises to the top. i don't know if that's a good nutrition pun, whatever, but the people on there areexcellent. i'm fully supportive of whatyou're doing. it's very helpful for thecouncil staff, council members to
have this science as we goaround the united states and advocate for the changes weneed. also i personally want to saythat the activity and inclusion is so important.my practice in north dakota was largely children with chronicdisease, and the practice that i had, and i dealt with so manyfamilies that were dealing with so many struggles just keeping alive or being healthy enough to go to school,or getting insurance and the finances andphysical activity often was just -- you know, just tough todo.
a hard priority to fit in theirdaily struggles. there's some that were able todo that. but as i reflect back on atleast my experience on the council, a couple of events thati emotionally appreciated the most was going to slippery rock, pennsylvania, to do a site visit for the i can do it, you can do it, and seeing kids with autism and disabilities of all sorts working with volunteers at their local ymca and gettingthem active with physical education, physical therapistsand students was just inspiring. the other one was going to thewounded warriors activity
athletic competition in coloradosprings and seeing men and women in the military who had hadtremendous disabilities as a result of serving this countryand their efforts to compete athletically was just veryinspiring, so the more we do as a council with those who aredisabled and have so much to deal with in their dailyexistence to be fit and to eat healthy, i think it's wonderful.so again, thank you to the council for giving me theopportunity to hang out with so many smart people the last threeyears, and what you do is very
important.the publication is just -- i think it was around a couplethousand we were getting it and -- it's got around 22,000, so that's been another fantastic improvement, so thanks for all you've done.[applause] >> thank you, dr. rimmer,dr. mcdonough, both for the update, we appreciate all the scienceboard's work and your contributions to support thiscore function of the council, so thank you.now i would like to turn it over to hannah torkelson, who willhelp us honor the 2016 lifetime
achievement award winners.>> as our council members and shelley transition to the stage, i'llhave them line up in a half moon. in celebration of national physical fitness and sportsmonth, the president's council has presented the lifetimeachievement awards annually since 2007, this award is given to individuals whose careers have greatly contributed to the advancement or promotionof physical activity, fitness, sports and/or nutrition programsnationwide. each year the council presentsup to five lifetime achievement
awards.they are selected by members of the president's council based onthe span and scope of an individual's career, theestimated number of lives they've touched and the impact of their legacy. it gives me great pleasure to announce our five recipients of the 2016 award this year. do note that not all of our winners could be here today. we are arranging for theirawards to be presented at a different time and location. please hold your applause as i read the bios, and then, award winners, as i call your name please come forward. so dr. charles b., chuck, corbin. dr. corbin is professor emeritus in the school of nutrition and healthpromotion at arizona state
university.he is a physical -- fitness and physical educator and researcherin fitness health and wellness. he has co-authored the firstphysical activity guidelines for children and is a fellow in theamerican college of sports medicine.he is most recognized for his pioneer work in fitnesseducation, youth fitness and activity promotion and served asthe first chair of the president's council on fitness,sports and nutrition science board.he was nominated today by paul roetert
with shape america and is unableto attend. miss diane hart.miss hart is the president and executive director of thenational association for health and fitness and the keyarchitect and chair of the global employee health and fitnessmonth. as a fitness professional, miss hartholds multiple national certifications in the field offitness and health promotion. her activities include providerand health specialist with blue shield of north eastern new york,specializing in corporate
wellness programs.she's also the founder of hart to heart fitness.miss hart is the proud recipient of the silver eagle nationalleadership award created in memory of c. carson conradwho served five u.s. presidents as executive director of thepresident's council on physical fitness and sports.ms. hart was nominated by dr. keelor of health designsinternational. dr. richard j. hodes. dr. hodes hasdirected the national institutes of health's national instituteon aging since 1993.
he has devoted his tenure to thedevelopment of a strong, diverse and balanced research programfocusing on the genetics and biology of aging, basic andclinical studies aimed at reducing disease and disabilityincluding alzheimer's disease and age-related cognitivechange. he is also focused ondissemination of research results to health professionals and to the public including initiatives onexercise and physical activity, aimed at maintaining health andwell-being while aging led by the institutes go4life physical activity and exercise campaign for adultsage 50 and older.
he was nominated by dr. wandajones, principal deputy secretary for health, u.s. department of health and human services with theassistance of miss vicky cahan, director with the office ofcommunications and public liaison at national institute onaging and ms. megan homer, director of the go4life campaign. that is a mouthful.he is unable to join us today as well.rafer johnson was the founding member of the specialolympics of california and served on the southerncalifornia board of directors
for more than 40 years.he was instrumental in the development of the specialolympics program, its fund-raising activities andeverything else ever since. he was nominated due to hislong-standing recognition of 50 honors and awards including asilver medalist for the 1956 olympics and gold medalist ofthe 1960 games in the decathlon. he was nominated by johnneighbor with neighbor and associates is unable to join ustoday. grand master ken min.mr. min is faculty emeritus,
director of the internationalmartial arts research institute at the university of californiaberkeley. his life has been devoted to themartial arts first as competitor, then as an instructor, coach andultimately founder, editor, manager, researcher, andadministrator. he founded the university ofcalifornia martial arts program, which includes judo, taekwondo,wushu, karate, tai chi chuan and yongmudo. the berkeley taekwondo team, under his leadership, has won 34 national team titles within a 38-year period.he was a founding member of the
world taekwondo federation andserved on that organization's governing council for almost four decades.he was nominated by grand master moo young li, with the koreanamerican charity foundation. he was unable to join us today,however, his daughter, dr. sylvia min luther, is accepting the award on hisbehalf. please join me in a big round ofapplause for our 2016 lifetime achievement award winners. congratulations. and in honor of our 60th anniversary this year, the president's council has also recognized 60leaders at the community level
from across the country with the2016 community leadership award. the community leadership awardis given annually to individuals and organizations who improvethe lives of others within their community by providing orenhancing opportunities to engage in sports, physicalactivities, fitness, and nutrition-related programs.a listing of these winners is available on our website atwww.fitness.gov. congratulations to all our 2016pcfsn award winners. thank you.[applause]
>> congratulations again to allof our 2016 lifetime achievement awardees and communityleadership award recipients as well.let's give them another round of applause.[applause] as hannah and others havementioned, this is a big year for the council.as we are celebrating our 60th anniversary.we are so thankful that rob shepardson has been leading ourcharge for the past six years and has developed a well thoughtout and thorough strategy to
help us celebrate the past 60years and to chart our vision for the next 60 years.no pressure. [laughter]i'd like to turn it over to rob at this moment and i'd also liketo welcome up let's move executive director, debeschmeyer, to join us for this discussion.[applause] rob you can take the floor. >>thank you, dom.appreciate it. and welcome, deb.it's good to see you again. this is a very exciting time,and we're all here for a launch
of a new program.so we want to make the reveal as exciting as we can.as you may recall at the meeting last year, we had talked aboutacknowledging the 60th anniversary and planning forthat, and i think almost everybody volunteered to be apart of it. the subcommittee that so ablydid a lot of work and helped the joint effort, i want toacknowledge and thank jayne greenberg, general hertling, dr. mcdonough, and anthony robles, appreciate it. and many of you spent time withus on the phone, getting your
insights and ideas and what haveyou, so appreciate that time too.our job really as mandated by shellie and also with chris wattsof the foundation was to figure out a program that woulddo justice to the 60 years that we've seen and then as dom saidgoing forward too into the next 60 years.i'm going to talk about that and give you a little bit of contextfor that, but first we're going to show a short clip bypresident kennedy to provide a little context for all the workthat we do.
>> the strength of our democracy and our country is really no greater in the final analysis than thewell-being of our citizens. i think during this period, weshould make every effort to see that the intellectual talents ofevery boy and girl are developed to the maximum, and also theirphysical fitness, their willingness to participate inphysical exercise, their willingness to participate inphysical contests, and athletic contests.all these, i think, will do a good deal to strengthen thiscountry and also to contribute
to a greater enjoyment of lifein the years to come. this is a responsibility whichis upon all of us. i want to urge that this be amatter of great priority. a sound mind and a sound body isone of the oldest slogans of the western world.i'm hopeful that we will place a proper weight on intellectualachievements. in my judgment for thelong-range happiness and well-being of all of you, allthe strengthening of our country, for a more active andvigorous life, all of you as
individuals and as groups willparticipate, in strengthening the physical well-being of youngamerican boys and girls, this is a matter of importance.>> well i must say i've never had to follow president kennedy before.but obviously he as well as all of our former presidents andcertainly president obama puts our work in the largest ofcontexts. it is as important as all of theother work that's done in the federal government.so we took our effort obviously very seriously, how toacknowledge 60 years, but really
more importantly, talk about thenext 60 and launch a new phase or redouble our efforts goingforward. if we can go to the slide, therewe go, as many of you know, on july 16th, 1956, presidenteisenhower established the president's council to ensurethat american youth were fit and active.and while the context and the times certainly have changed asyou can see by that photograph, the goal really has not.obviously into the current administration, health remains anational priority and an
important priority for the workthat we all do. as we moved ahead into thedevelopment of our campaign -- there we are -- you can go tothe next slide, as we developed then based on that mandate thegoals for the 60th anniversary campaign, we had a couple that we had to keep in mind. obviously we wanted to reinforcethe promise of the council that was so beautifully articulatedto help americans achieve a healthy and active lifestyle, toalso in many ways redouble the effort of the name and the roleand the function of the council
in the country and ensure thatit was contemporary as it needed to be, which it is, but makesure that everybody knew that, then most importantly reallyengage as many stakeholders as we possibly could to help us dothis work. so those were the goals.the process we followed really, i don't need to go into anydetail, but we essentially spent a lot of the fall doing ourhomework, talking to many of you, talking to many of theexperts around the country in health and fitness and nutritionand well-being and all of you.
it was a fascinating learningprocess. looked at all the differentprograms that were out there. which as we all know in thisroom, as some of the world's experts, there are thousands andthousands across the country in the public and private sector.so we began to realize how daunting our task was, but as westarted to narrow our thinking and narrow our campaigndevelopment, on the next slide we talk about the key findings.and as in any campaign but certainly in an area as this, the realchallenge was to be simple about
it, was to really narrow thisdown to an intuitive idea that everybody could grasp.we are talking obviously to every american here, and it hadto be easy, it had to be understandable, it had to fit inthe culture, we didn't have time to educate people about acomplex program. that was number one.number two, our target really in the center of the bull's-eye wasvery much parents and caregivers and educators because they arethe ones that obviously make decisions for how our childrenlive their lives at home, at
school, and at play.we really had to make sure, because obviously we did nothave a marketing budget the way some of the large private sectorcompanies do that we were going to go where our audience existscurrently. we weren't going to ask them tofind us, we were going to go where they are already,obviously a lot of that these days is around social anddigital media, and then importantly as we've just heard,the extraordinary success that shellie explained, there's somuch work that's been done,
there's so much even moreimportant than the work impact that's been done, and thissimple idea had to also at the same time be big enough toaccommodate all of those programs and allow people tocome in, explore and choose where they would go relative towhat they wanted to do. with their exercise, with theirstation in life and what have you, all at the same time beingsensitive to the complexity of what we're talking about.as many of us know, this is -- it's a complicated subject toget people to maintain a healthy
lifestyle, to even start on thatladder to a healthy lifestyle, there's all sorts of issues,cultural, societal, income, geography, religion, tradition,all of that has to be factored in to this.so at that point, we're still looking at a blank sheet ofpaper. and for folks in the work that wedo, that creates a lot of panic. but we took a step back and westarted to think about some ideas and started to think about what the rationale really was that we wanted to do, and so we have alittle line or sentence here
that laid down the rationale forhow we were going to get to this simple idea.and it begins on the next slide, which is -- and i'm just goingto read this -- they say a new habit takes root when you'vedone something around 60 days in a row.which is perfect for us, considering it's our 60thanniversary. and since kids need 60 minutesof activity. and sharing tips on eatinghealthy should only take about 60 seconds, so let's take peopleon a journey from zero to 60.
the idea is zero to 60.now that's a phrase that we've all heard in the context ofaccelerating, of starting from a standing start and moving fast,and it was the line and the idea that we have adopted, movingfrom zero to 60, so that it was accessible for anyone to startliving a healthy lifestyle, and even if you were an athlete andyou work out four or five times a week, there's always somethingextra you could do, but it obviously has a double meaningfrom zero to 60 with our 60th anniversary, but moreimportantly, it's a message to
everybody out there, everybodyout there, regardless of, as i said before, the situation theymay find themselves in, physically, culturally, whateverit might be. that they can begin on the road,they can start on the road to a healthy lifestyle.and now as we've begun to build this campaign out and we're going tolaunch it this evening, i guess right now is the official launchof it, but this evening, there will be partners that are many,many that have been assembled that will help us in thiseffort, we'll come together and
kick this off.the logo you see in the right-hand side is a new logothat was established and created for the 60th anniversary.and as you might imagine, the premium, as dr. desalvomentioned at the beginning, as much work as has been done, andthe commitment by the president and first lady and the firstfamily even, has been so extraordinary, and reallyhistoric, the message still needs to get out there.there still out there, there are plenty of people who don't getit, they don't get it on a
regular basis, it's verydifficult to them, to dr. mcdonough's point, people are trying to make ends meet, live their lives, find places, find ways, find opportunities to work out, to walk, to do dance, to dowhatever it might be. and it's difficult for a lot ofpeople and we want this to reach everybody.so we have put together an integrated program that willlaunch through this year which i'll talk about in just asecond. so beginning on the next slide,as i mentioned, these days, it really begins and ends in manyways with the digital and social
media campaign, this is afacebook page as you might imagine, that we will use to getthe message out. on the next page, you'll see thewebsite. by the way, there is the logothat was a little uncooperative before that was not showing up.the hashtag zero to 60. obviously one of the things thatthe council dictated in many ways last year when we met wasthis has to be technologically relevant, it has to work withhow we live our lives these days, which is on oursmartphone, and by the way, that
is only accelerating, for goodor not but it's a fact, and so that's why the hashtag zero to60 was a device that we are going to use a lot as we make our waythrough this. but that's a picture, aphotograph of the home page on the website.on the next slide, you'll see an image of the app that we arebuilding, as i mentioned, so that people can engage with iton their phones, and it is a very, very easy enticing way tocome in. we may be coming to some of youand some of others to help do a
short video or take advantage ofsome of the work that you're already doing to put on here,and then direct people to some of the terrific programs thatdeb oversees at let's move! and the many, many programs that thecouncil oversees and others, by the way, in the government aswell, and links to other fitness communities around the countryas well. that's one part of it.the next part of it obviously these days, and particularly giventhe extraordinary first lady and president that we are so honoredto serve, we are going to take
advantage of that, and we aregoing to figure out the right way to use not just the firstlady but others to get the message out.i can't give all the news away but we are doing a video withsome of the top hollywood talent.we're pretty sure that the first lady will be able to engage inthat as well and hopefully even at some point through thesummer, the president, and a history lesson for some of you.does anybody remember the song that went along with the fitnesscouncil back in the day?
there you go.yeah. it's quite a song.it should, i think, be in a museum somewhere, but there wasa song that was commissioned by president kennedy, it waswritten by a very famous broadway producer and performedby a very famous broadway performer.we need to have a new song. it's time to have a new song.and everyone agreed that that was the case, and we've got somevery good news about that too so there will be a new song thatwill be launched as part of
this.>> and we've been assured that the words chicken or fat willnot be in them, right? >> no, no.>> just checking. >> no.absolutely not. so we will use obviously all thetools in the toolbox these days as we push to get our messageout and that includes celebrities and what have you.on the next slide, we're very excited about this element ofthe program which we're calling inspiration everywhere.and that is, using the incredible
partners that have been puttogether by the council and by the foundation, schools andcommunity centers and parks and hospitals and sports facilitiesaround the country will have programs that they will adopt,we will create and make it easy as the council always does toengage with them and they will have both the branding you seeup there, that's a park bench as an example at the top with thelittle sign, go from zero to 60, and donna -- cornell, maybewe'll get you to help too, little, maybe 60, 90, 120, 180 second little exercise programs so
you're walking along the parkand you can do this at the park bench, times hopefully about athousand. the picture at the bottom is ourrendering of what might occur in gym classes with some posters ofsome celebrities and what have you.and then finally, on the last slide, other national grassroots events, the program as we've envisioned it right nowhas been -- really begun to be planned, is to launch today, andreally make sure that we are talking to the partners andgetting them excited about it,
and there will be summertimeactivations, obviously a lot of people outside during the summerand our partners are very excited about thosecollaborations. the big push to the real masspublic will be in the august/september time frame backto school. for obvious reasons with theengagement, with the schools and the school districts and whathave you, to build on the work with the fitness program, that'swhen the big mass push will occur, and there's some very,very exciting partnerships that
are contemplated there as welland i think a few that are locked in place and shelliecan mention those, if it's approved to mention some ofthose if she'd like. and then the continued partneractivation. so that's the program.that's the idea, that's the name, that's the focus of it.and i think that we've ended up in a very, very good place,everybody that sees it is very excited about it.it does the multiple things that i had identified as some of ourchallenges, very clear,
intuitive, easy to grasp ideafrom zero to 60, go from zero to 60, accelerate your journey toliving healthy, so you don't have to explain it, everybodycan get it, so it's specific yet at the same time broad enoughthat partners can come in underneath it and support it.so what i want to do now was pause and really open it up fora discussion. what we'd really love is forquestions, comments, suggestions because right now as many of youhave done already, we continually need to think ofideas and of partnerships,
programs, everybody here, everycouncilmember touches a part of the fitness and nutrition world,everybody has their relationships and theirorganizations that they're formally or informally engagedwith, people know people, et cetera, et cetera, and we'rereally looking for all of those ideas to capture all of thoseideas. as we continue to build out thiscampaign over the summer and launching it into the fall.you know, we talked about our parents and young children,older children in my case,
grandchildren, in other cases,and our perspective as the ones that make decisions about ourchildren and grandchildren as the case may be on the physicaland nutritional lives that our kids lead and what could bedone, maybe lessons learned, and then obviously everycouncilmember hopefully getting engaged in this, and helping toamplify this and push the message out and do what we allwant to do, which is as dr. desalvo mentioned at thevery beginning, get this message out to everybody, because thatright now is the challenge, and
the challenge is to get it outto as many people as we can working with deb and herincredible cruel at the white house as part of let's move! as well as the others. so i'll stop there and open it up for questions, comments, love to hear all ofit. >> rob, just wanted to note thatallison felix has joined us on the phone.allison, can you hear us? >> yes, i can.good morning. >> good morning!how are you? >> i'm doing well.>> excellent.
were you able to hear most ofthe presentation? >> yes, i am.yeah. it sounds really exciting.>> excellent. i know you're rehabbing there,allison, and getting ready for the olympics, so i know you'llonly be on for a few minutes so please jump in where you'd like,and we're so glad that you've joined us.>> okay, thanks. i wish i could be there, buti'll be following along.>> so, please, questions, yeah? >> i want to jump right in andsay from the start, thank you to
each and every one of you foryour representation on the council on behalf of the firstlady and the president. you all know that you're stellar role models already, but you are truly making a difference withyour public service and with your thought leadership on how do we make sure we're actually making this relevant for the nextgeneration, so i just want you to know, they are deeply gratefulfor everything that you're contributing and for everythingwe're going to do moving forward.and special thanks to rob for
all the incredible work thathe's done on putting this together.he's gone through many iterations, and a lot ofpatience on the back and forth on this, and it's truly incredible and we're excited to lift this up in fun and creative ways, so all ideas are welcome, everyoneshould know that, for how do we make sure we reach folks onthis. i challenge us to make a way toget this across on a regular basis.it is launching today, it's not going to go for a larger launchagain back until school time,
but we should think about ifkirby and i decide to walk back to the white house today, that's37 of our 60. so it's like we can go tweet outon the let's move! account, hey, hey we've got 37 of our 60.you can say too, you're walking around the airport, i just got27 of my 60, right? so it's like making sure that we take responsibility for finding ways to make this hit home and foreveryone that's also, you know, around the room today, let usknow. did you get your 60, right?let's actually make some noise.
but i hope that folks willreally take on that challenge themselves and get that across.>> i see that you guys want to focus on reaching people where theyare and the emphasis was on the fact that we are really obsessedwith our smartphones and it's only going to get worse orbetter, whichever view point you want to take, and i thinkdr. desalvo mentioned in her remarks earlier that we want toreduce screen time, and as a mom of two girls, i've had verylimited time to get my full 60 minutes in at once.and i found this awesome app,
i'm not going to promote it, butthis awesome app that gives me a five-minute workout on an app,and it's an overall body workout and so i would encourage youas you're promoting events or activities or what the firstlady is doing or athletes are doing to engage with cornell ordonna possibly, and they do the 60 second, 120 seconds, or180 seconds, of a workout. it's something very short andbrief because our attention span these days is very limited.at least it turns that screen time into some productive activemovement time instead of someone
looking and reading about anevent. >> yeah, that's a great idea.and there are many apps out there that actually help peoplebecause, of course, these days you need an app to doeverything. so -- but it's a -- that's avery good point. thank you, dom. yes.>> you know, i read a study recently that said when we'redoing different things, our brain is engaged to adifferent degree. so maybe when you're doing mathproblems, it's this much, when
you're really engaged withsomeone you want to be with, it's using other parts, but whenyou're hearing a story, your whole brain is engaged.i just think we have to think about ways to tell the storiesof people that are really embracing this, because it'sgoing to be stories that will inspire people more than factsand figures, and maybe even, you know, celebrities so let's tell somestories about how to inspire people.>> yeah, very good. thank you. yeah, absolutely.>> just sort of jumping on
what's been said already, i lovethe idea of telling stories. i also love the idea that youcan get in your 60 minutes throughout the day in differentways. i think that's really importanttoo, because i think it can be daunting and challenging for alot of people saying i've got to get back in shape, i've got tobe healthy, but it can be an intimidating process.so i think it's really important that we lift up those storiesand also provide opportunities to exercise that, you know, suggestions that maynot be the first thing that
comes to mind, you think i'mgoing to go work out. i love, cornell, what you said,it's not let's gym, it's let's move.i love that. that's such a great philosophy.it really is about getting out there and moving and doing thebest you can, it's not always easy every single day, so theopportunity to really provide some suggestions or again thestories of what people do on a day-to-day basis, i think wouldbe really helpful. >> that's great, thanks, caitlin. jayne?>> i love the simplicity of it,
zero to 60, it makes a lot ofsense, it tunes in with the physical activity guidelines of 60 minutes or more of physical activity. i love what we discussed earlier, where we live, work, learn, play and pray, where you can work as ateam and group and find someone to be physically active with,and i love of course with the schools, the before, during andafter component of having kids being physically active at the school environment where we know we have 50 million kids every day so we have a goodreach there. so thank you so much for that.>> thank you, jayne. yeah, cornell.>> i was getting ready to say
too, it's also good to -- and iknow we're saying that from zero to 60, to in a simple wayexpress the progression. and so you're starting at zero, soyour first day might not be 60. but if it's 10, you win.so we want to have a progression kind of thing like that sopeople know they can build to their 60 and that's a success.>> it's part of the -- this is the theme, of course, it's partof the app that's being built that will essentially allowpeople to see that progress, and to be encouraged by it.just on the point of
storytelling, i'd ask thecouncil members to send along their favorite story, or let usknow if you have heard a story or an individual or a school orsomething like that, because you're the ones that hear thesestories, you're out there, you're talking to people, and aswe all know, the stories that make an impact on you will makean impact on everybody else. so you're that first line andyou're sensitive to it, so good stories.please let us know because we really want those authenticgenuine stories of all shapes,
sizes, circumstances.please send those in. >> how about like a social mediakind of campaign on twitter, instagram, kind of the idea of the icebucket challenge, but taking it as simple as, jayne, youmentioned, it's very simple, hashtag zero to 60, creatingsort of a video content where perhaps westart with the council members, creating a 60 second video, weshare it on our social mediaplatforms, we have the president and first lady involved, andhaving it as sort of a grass
roots campaign where people aresharing what they do in 60 seconds. and then kind of saying, i want jason collins to be the next person to do the 60-secondchallenge. or zero to 60 challenge.>> that's a great idea. i love, jason, to -- sort ofunrelated, just do that ice bucket challenge.[laughter] >> already did it.>> that's a great idea, michelle.absolutely. there have been a coupledifferent ideas thrown around
that way, so we really must getsomething like that. >> just to piggy back on that,so much about fitness and health is what you see in your family,so maybe with the kids going home and spreading the messageto encourage their parents, try to get the whole family involvedkind of thing. >> absolutely.okay, great. well, thank you very much, andit's been said but i must say that the leadership of shellieand the work of the staff and chris watts and the foundation,and working with deb and kirby at
let's move! has been reallyextraordinary, and everybody is engaged in this and very excitedand we look forward to the next few months.thanks. >> well thank you, rob, thankyou, deb. wonderful presentation.we are all very excited about the 60th anniversary of thepresident's council and look forward to inspiring all americans on their journey from zero to 60. to close out what's been shared to preview what's ahead, we have a special video message from council member rachael ray. >> happy 60th anniversary to allof my friends at the president's
council on fitness, sports andnutrition. it is such an honor for me tohave been working alongside you to help our families andparticularly american children. you know, helping them to eatbetter and to simply move more. it's a message that we try andshare every day on this show and in this season alone, our tenthseason, i wanted to share with you that we have committed over40 whole segments on health, nutrition and wellness and manyof them starred young leaders from all over our country, youngpeople that were doing great things in their
communities to keep each otherfed and to get their families moving and eating a healthierdiet. i've been able to invite some ofmy fellow council members here, like the lovely misty copeland,grant hill, and of course our good pal dr. ian smith.they have joined me at this show to help spread our word.60 years is quite an accomplishment, but our workcertainly, sadly, isn't done yet.i look forward to continuing our fight alongside all and each youto help make sure that americans
adopt a healthier lifestyle eachand every day. much love! >> what a fantastic message fromrachael ray. it's so great to have her on theteam. next we have, continuing withour 60th anniversary discussion, we have council member dr. risa lavizzo-mourey. she will provide insight for the next 60 years. for this discussion, i'd like toinvite abby and her fellow fuel up to play 60 youth ambassador, ani, to join us at the table. additionally at this time, we'reexcited to welcome back dr. karen desalvo.dr. desalvo is the acting
assistant secretary of healthfor the u.s. department of health and human services. sheis a physician who has focused her career toward improvingaccess to affordable, high quality care for all people.especially vulnerable populations and promotingoverall health. she has done this through direct patient care, medical education, policy andadministrative roles, research and public service.her commitment to improving the public's health includesleveraging public/private
partnerships to address thesocial determinants of health through environmental, policyand system level changes. dr. desalvo earned her medicaldoctorate and masters in public health from tulane university,and a master's in clinical epidemiology from harvard schoolof public health. she has an honorary doctoratefrom her alumnus institution, suffolk university. following our conversation,dr. desalvo will provide her reflections on a healthierfuture. risa, thank you for moderatingthis discussion.
i'll turn the mic over to you.>> great. thank you, dom.let me just get us started by trying to get everyone to thinklong term, like the next 60 years, on how we can build aculture of health where all of us can be healthier.some of you know, i talk a lot about this and usually when istart off people are thinking what does she mean by a cultureof health? let's start with culture.culture can mean a lot of things.music, art, but in this context,
i want you just to think of itas the way we do things around here.the way we do things in our families, in our workplaces, inour schools, on this council. how we do things around here.and think about the aspects of our culture that make it easyfor us to be healthy or not. and when i say healthy, and behealthier, i don't just mean the absence of sickness.i mean health, mind, body, spirit and community.so why is that important? it's important because beinghealthy and having health as a
focus, as president kennedysaid, is really the bedrock of prosperity, it's the foundationof a strong and competitive nation and a nation that's ableto really be safe around the world.it's what gives us confidence and the ability to be innovative andcompetitive. it's really who we are in thiscountry. so when you think about that,and you ask yourselves, why is so many of this discussion we'vehad so far focused on how difficult it is to be healthy?i heard that word, it's
difficult to work in physicalactivity, it's difficult to work in good nutrition, i heard it atleast six times in the last hour.what we want to do is engage all of you in a discussion about howwe can change that over the next 60 years, because this is a longterm proposition. it's not something that's goingto happen overnight. now, when you think about that,and we do a lot of this at the foundation, we try to get peopleto imagine what the future should look like.and we often bring people who
are very different together, andwe say think about a time in your childhood, a moment, whenyou felt you were at your peak. you were confident, happy, youfelt healthy, you felt like you could do anything.and no matter how difficult a childhood people have had, theyusually can recall a moment like that.and when they do, there are a few things that come forward.they remember often being physically active.even if they have limitations, they remember some activity.they remember being connected to
other people during that moment.they remember feeling safe and being in a community that reallyembraced them. so i think if you all reflect onyour peak moment, you would probably have some of those sameobservations. so what we want to try to do nowis keep in mind what amelia earhart said.she said the most difficult decision is to act.after that, everything else is tenacity.so we're going to talk now for the next few minutes about thetenacity that it's going to take
for us to get from a culturewhere it's difficult to be healthy or healthier to onewhere it's a central part of everything we do, where we live,where we learn, where we work, where we pray, where we justhave fun. so with that, i've given youenough time to think about how we're going to do that.i'm going to open it up to the council members to throw someideas out there. yes, please, dr. steve.>> we all come to the council, the audience, with our differentlife experiences.
for 29 years, i was a slug.i'm a non-athlete, i was very sedentary.last 36 years, i've been exercising every day.and you go through different phases of your life and things change.sometimes you run, sometimes you play racquet ball, sometimes youplay golf poorly, and now i'm -- the last 20 years, i've beenwalking dogs. i brought this up before, but iwent to a meeting in anaheim representing the council, thejoint commission on sports medicine and science, there wasa presentation from a lady from -- doctor from the
centers for disease controlabout dog obligation. and i had a previous goldenretriever that i walked 15,000 miles with, and now i've gotthree golden retrievers i walk one mile four times a day, mytop priority when i get up every day is how am i going to get my dogstwo hours of exercise? i fit everything else in to thatpattern. when the weather front is comingin, when the rain is coming in, whatever.they get their two hours. pet ownership is up, i had threekids, i've got three dogs, and
my kids are all adults andthey're living their lives, but i'm an older person now and ispent my life as a pediatrician focusing on kids, and looking toward the future, i think there's a tremendous potential for a lotof people like myself who maybe are not as active physically,that they wouldn't go walking by themselves.they wouldn't -- no way they'd go for a walk down the block tothe park. but they have a dog, they'regoing to take that dog for a walk.and with the surgeon general's
call for walking andwalkability, a lot of people like myself, we just don't haveany talent when it comes to sports or athletics, but we wantto be fit and we want to keep our dogs happy.so i think that's a potential for the council to get involvedin that, i really think the president's challenge is awonderful activity where i log my physical activity and i thinkthat's something for the next council to look at, i think weget some new partners that are dog lovers, i think it'sbipartisan, that old expression,
if you want a friend inwashington, get a dog. that's not true because i know alot of people in washington have really good friendships, butboth republicans and democrats, independents, they all are doglovers, a lot of them are dog lovers, and it's something thatmaybe if we can't bring ourself together, the dogs can bringourselves together. so anyway, something to thinkabout. >> great.commitment to another living being.cornell, can you top that?
>> i can't top that but -- imean, i'm a dog lover, i've been a dog breeder, trainer, so ilove dogs and i think that's a great thing.i think that what we find when we talk about campaigns, withoutgiving it a name, we talk about sports and however we talk about it we have to find a way to frame it where it's not a campaign but a way of life, andso it's about when i work with people, it's about -- we say tothem this is not about quick fixes, but a way of life.so i think our mission is to translate it in such a way thatpeople understand so it's like
walking your dog, it's ridingyour bike, it's the time you play with your children.but when i hear you say culture, that's what i think about.we have to make this like a way of life where people wake up inthe morning and the first thing they do is move and stretch,because it's what you do. it's like tai chi in the morningor your yoga, and it becomes what is normal.i say to people all the time, going to work is a way of life.so people do that, we don't have to remind them that you have togo to work.
so that's how i see this interms of it is a way of life, and once we as a culture, thatbecomes intuitive and we believe that and begin to live that,that's just what you do. right now we always think of itas something we do when we find time.but that's where we have to leave it's a way of life and notsomething you find time for, but it's how you live.>> mark. and jayne, go ahead, then we'llgo to mark. >> i'd like to again go to let'smove! and let's move! active
schools, and the impact that that's made. we think about schools,we think about kids but we're talking about the whole schoolenvironment. we're talking about theadministrative staff, the custodial staff, the cafeteria staff, thatwhen we bring let's move! active schools to the school, we'rechanging the school environment and making a culture of healthin the schools. when we look at kids, we saythey spend more than half their waking day in schools but inessence, many of them spend 11 hours in school that if they'redropped off at 6:00, 7:00,
8:00 in the morning and notpicked up until 6:00 at night, we have them for 11 hours a day.so the school environment, but the whole of school environmentbecomes critically important. >> risa, something you said really resonated, because i've had a change of approach within the last few years since i've retired.the active part, the body part, if you will, of activity, had been my focus in one aspect of my military career, but it seems you're addressing the holistic feature of mind, bodyand spirit is critically important.the emphasis as steven said on walking a dog, yeah, that mayget you your physical exercise,
but there's also that almostspiritual approach to being with nature, with being with anotheranimal and the emotional approach, the mindful approach of all of these thingscoming together. so i think as we look at thenext 60 years, perhaps the zero to 60 campaign is just thebeginning of a start to reaching out into other areas of holistichealth, but this becomes the driver.and the deterioration in some areas of our nation's health notonly from a physical approach but also the mental andspiritual approach may be linked
to our physical activity asjayne has noted in schools, a decrease in physical activityalso seems to correlate with a decrease in mental and emotional activity -- we've got to bring all three of thesetriads together and that should be an emphasis in the next 60years. >> excellent point.i would just add on to that, as i'm looking around for others toput their light on, our community as well.maybe because so much of how comfortable we feel engaging inphysical activity and really being a part of activities likethat depends on what's available
in the community in which welive. so it's mind, body, spirit, andour neighborhoods. how do we make that an activepart of our future? rob, dom, please.>> thanks. you know i think we should look nofurther than this table and the conversation we had before abouttechnology, which is among, you know, globalization is the biggest change in the last two decades. and the consequences on on our culture as it relates to leading a healthy lifestyle. the statistics of the usage ofsmartphones, for example, and the constant nature that we all, you know, use those is extraordinary, and what
that means for our technology.but i was in scandinavia not too long ago, one area of the worldthat's so advanced technologically, in many casesfar beyond where we are, yet that culture, in those countriesfor the most part is very much around health. and what is that cultural insight? what are they doing there that makes that the way you live yourlife as you said, how we do the things we do here.yet still on the cutting edge technology, very interesting,maybe a little laboratory to look at, i'm sure people have, youprobably have as well, but i
think that's a fascinating thingto get our hands around. >> we're going to turn in domin a minute, but while she's speaking, i want to just givenotice to our digital natives here, who you know they often say if you care about the future, you ask people who are actually going tobe in the future, when the future comes, so i want to letabby and ani know that we're going to be turning to themafter dom's comment. >> i think there should be anemphasis a little bit more on relationships.i am by nature an introvert, and i'm
very comfortable with one or two people, anything more is a little overwhelming for me.but i love people, but i think the emphasis is important that ifwe're teaching people about a healthy lifestyle, that it's ateam affair, a group affair, it's a family affair.as i mentioned, even though i'm an introvert, i love beingaround people, and i do think that it's difficult to thinkabout, but someday we're going to leave this earth and thething that's going to probably be on our mind is going to beour relationships with people or
our relationship with god, and so ithink while we're here and we're trying to encourage and empowerpeople to live this healthy lifestyle, we've got to remember that we're going to do it together, and so the focus on the parents, the focus on the family, the focus on the community and the school, i think that would beimportant. >> who wants to start?all right. ani.>> i think that we should really focus on the next generationbecause that's who's going to be living these next 60 years.so --
[laughter]>> i think that teachers, staff, and adults should really be teaching them, you know, the positive effects of healthy lifestyles and healthy eatingand physical activity. and i think that, as ms. dawes said in the beginning of the meeting, actions speak louder than words,so i think that when someone does something positive, i thinkit really affects the student or anyone a lot more than someonetelling you to do something. so thank you.>> hi. ok, so i think i agree completelywith everybody that's spoken so
far, and i feel like studentscan be teaching students as a youth lead i feel that studentsreact more to other students speaking to them about howimportant this is. and having a student speak to astudent can really show how this next generation is going to takecontrol of how we are actually going to develop and become ahealthier active community. >> that is so important, i think.[applause] let me just push us a little bitmore. we've heard about the zero to 60campaign.
how can we use that campaign toreally help us become healthier overall?i mean, this concept of putting it into everyday life, i reallylike that bullet. many of us are in meetings allday, it's very common to have a coffee break, but we had anactivity break here. why can't that be theexpectation? what are some things that we cando as council members to try to get that marriage between thezero to 60 campaign and a long term push to be healthier?deb, i see you want to make a
point.>> yeah, because i feel like we should be standing or we shouldbe -- right now we should be moving around.first of all that was beautiful. i would love to know, can wechange study hall to be active, right?why is study hall sedentary? why aren't we on exercise bikeswhile we're studying chemistry? because we all know active mindslearn better, right? we do better.we're taking -- we should all be taking walking meetings.we do this all the time actually
as part of let's move!.we stand for the first 15 minutes of the meeting sometimesso it charges you, it gets you going.so we need to challenge ourselves every day, like ok, how do we go zero to 60 in a new way every day, right?little bits of increments at a time, right? where it's like, you know, whether or not you're walking around the kitchen while you're waiting for your bagel to pop out, right?what are the fun ways that we can really challenge ourselves,and in our existing grocery store trips or what you have, what canwe do to make it a little bit easier
for us to keep moving.so i think we just need to look at what we traditionally do andjust push a little harder. >> cornell.>> and as you said, using the hashtag zero to 60, what are someways that we can use that, i think we also should talk aboutyears, zero to 60 and come up with a campaign, what you do atone, what you do at two, and build it all the way to 60.we know that doing activities does not keep one fit orhealthy. we have professional athleteshere, we have olympians here, and you
know when people stop, theystop. so you could be the best in theworld, then you don't work out anymore, so that doesn't work.again, we're talking about culture, how do we build aculture. so let's take zero to 60 andteach people how to every year make a mark and that year we'redoing something that year, what did i do at three, what did i doat four, what do i do at 45, what do i do at 55, what do i do at 60. and that'll be our kind of one of the ways to do our goal.because if not, people just stop. they stop. and that's what we're talking about.
how to keep them fromstopping. we know that just because you --because sometimes people for whatever reason, they think that you'resupposed to stop. so one of the things we wantthem to do is to know that certainly we could take it to100, but we're talking about right now zero to 60, how do weuse it with that. for me, i see it all the timeand i'm like we've got to keep people active and moving,getting younger as opposed to getting older, so it's like howdo we build that into the mind
set and into the culture.>> as a geriatrician, i'm glad you said you could take itbeyond 60. i was going to say 60 times two.because 120 is not so out of the realm of possibilities.jayne, you look like you wanted to make a point.>> i did, i wanted to tag on to what deb said, and we have in miamitwo different school board buildings caddy corner, andusually you call someone, you leave a voice message.so one day i decided to put a pedometer on and see, instead of sending e-mails and making phone calls, walk fromoffice to office throughout the
day, and i put 7,000 steps on bynot using the computer during the -- the computer or the phoneduring the day. so just those little simplethings in the workplace can make a difference.>> i just wanted to piggy back off of something deb said, you said you guys go for like a walking break or you walk and you suggested we stand up duringthe meeting, and i think it's a great idea.however, when we were doing the fitness break, i mentionedsomething to drew and he was like i don't know why you womenwear heels.
because it's so painful to standand work out and walk in heels. so i think something where it'sobviously targeting just women, unless men wear heels, butkicking off these heels. if you're 5'3, though, you wantthe height so it has to be a heels with a little platform onit but something fun like that for women to kick off our heels,put on comfortable shoes and get moving and standing during meetings and walking. so that's just for the women.>> donna, you look like you wanted to jump in.>> yes, since this is national
fitness month, i've beenincorporating little dance breaks at schools and also wejust celebrated the national women's health week last week,and one of the things that i was sharing with women is i think sometimes you just have to get in the mind set every day when you start your day to try to do something good for yourmind, body and spirit, so i shared with them what i do everymorning is called pms, it's the good pms.it really is. it's prayer, meditation, andstretching. so i kind of feel like that just gets me ready and energized for the day and if i
do nothing else the rest of theday, at least i was able to get in something that was sosubstantial and so meaningful for me, and i may put in like some core exercises just to make sure that i've gotten some strengthtraining in, but just to start my day, if i don't do that, myday is totally different. and i may have to stop and goand do it later, but it's just helpful to get something in andsomething at the beginning of the day, even if it requires youto get up five or 10 minutes earlier.>> well, i know we're out of time so let me just
thank everyone and wrap it up byfirst of all saying i think the wisest words came from the future, who really toldus that our actions speak louder than our words.we are the role models and we are the ones who are going tohelp create that new future, and they want to learn from eachother. so we need to empower everysingle environment where our kids are going to be to be ashealthy as it could be so they will learn how to teach eachother to use technology, to use mind, body, spirit in community,and to build it into every
aspect of their day, so this hasbeen a great conversation, and thank you particularly to ourfuture. >> thank you for theopportunity. should we take deb up on heroffer and stand up for a second? let's do it.all right. excellent.i don't want to get cross wise with shellie so you've got tosit back down again so we can get to work.>> donna gave me something new to go home with which i always love. thank you, donna.
so, listen. thank you for the chance to react to some of that and talk about future.i'm going to do that in the context of some of my personalexperiences. most of my adult life has beenin new orleans and drew brees and the saints aside, we're notknown as the healthiest city in the country, and i think inparticular, it was a community that had a real inflection pointabout 12 years ago when we had a wakeup call from hurricanekatrina that caused those of used in the medical field whohad been treating the disease,
the consequences of poornutrition and physical activity, people in the school system,others in city government to really take stock of what we hadbeen doing to either support or maybe not support our community.and started a journey that was thinking about how we would change ourcommunity to one that had more of a culture of health.it's really just been an incredible experience for me as a citizenof that community and i had the chance to be health commissionerfor a few years, and as i took on that responsibility as thehealth commissioner, it was a
daunting task to look at thechallenges we had about physical activity or inactivity as the case may be, about access, and consumption of healthy food, about the consequence ofdisease, and so we got some consultation early on and wewent straight to the most important source which was theyouth in our community who told us with great clarity that theywanted to stay physically active, they wanted to havehealthy foods to eat and they thought in particular that thatwas related to their performance in school, their ability to stayin school, for their peers to
stay in school and for there notto be any reason that people wouldn't have all theopportunities going forward. and they asked us as we developedthe initiative to talk about fitness overall and not to talkabout things like obesity. and so we called our work there fit nola. and it was our let's move! program. it really has just been a part of a broader effort in our community to really rethink the way that we're approaching health and to try to change our culture of health,and i want to give you two key cultural changes that stick withme. one of them sounds tiny but ibelieve it's huge.
and it was a few years ago when iwas still health commissioner and i went to lunch at anotoriously unhealthy establishment, and saw on theboard -- the chalkboard -- that they were now serving brownrice, and in a place like new orleans, where that would havejust been unheard of in the past, and i asked them about itand they said they were getting a lot of demand for it, and youwere beginning to see on our menus, in restaurants, butcertainly the availability of farmer's markets and what peopleare growing in community
gardens, that there's a culturalshift and a priority around access to healthy food and howwe cook it. and similarly, that samecommunity made a decision about two years ago now to gosmoke-free, so not directly related to nutrition andphysical fitness, it's certainly completely in that constellation of things that are affecting people's health,and obviously if you're smoking you're not able to breathe aswell and so you're not able to be as physically active.so it's been a really dramatic cultural change, and i tell you that story, even though risa left and she didn't get to hear me tell the
story, because if a city like neworleans known for excess or known maybe globally for being aplace of rich food and unhealthy lifestyles can make a decisionas a community to make change, i really believe anyone can, andbecause it came from the voices of the people whose future wewere building in our community, it's really stuck, because thoseyoung people are now aging up and they're taking on moreleadership in high school and beyond and being a part of the solution. i'm going to flip to another community and talk aboutsustainability of all these
kinds of ideas, because it'sbeen mentioned throughout, and that is that no one person, nomatter -- there are extraordinary people who are sufficiently self motivated to get up every day, and eat perfectlyright and exercise and be active perfectly, but i like you amoften motivated by my dog when i'm just feeling not quite likei want to get out there and run, she always does.so i think that sense of responsibility to others andcommunity is important but we have to make those choices easy.we haven't really got the kind
of built environment andinfrastructure in our country that's supporting people to literally get out and walk. not everybody lives in that kindof a neighborhood. and so i think as we move forward,as a country, we have to consider the social determinantsof health that are sometimes in the way, particularly incommunities where there may not be safe playgrounds or parks orsidewalks or particularly where there may not be bike lanes incommunities or other things that we might take for granted insome of the places in this
country or access to healthyfood in the school system or beyond. so that that notion of creating a fabric of the environment andsystems and policy level change i believe is our important responsibility, not just at hhs but as community members.we have to pay attention to how we do that, just like my community has been doing in new orleans and places i'm seeing across the country, and i want to give you one really fine example. i get the chance to visit really remarkable places in the u.s.,and i recently went to johnson city, tennessee.this is a small community,
there are three all around andthey've all decided in different ways that they're going to behealthier but johnson city doesn't actually have its own healthdepartment so it sort of became a health department.as i was visiting with the school and with young people andhearing about how they were using technology to buildcompetition and encourage themselves to be active, all theways that -- through the faith based community, through electedlocal leadership, through healthcare, through citygovernment, they had all made a
decision that health was apriority and they were going to change their community, but themost striking example was in the public works department wherethey were having to dig up a sewer line and lay down a newone, and they decided -- they took it upon themselves in thepublic works department to put a path on top of the sewer linewhen they covered it back over, because they knew walking wasimportant increasingly to people in their community and they sawthat as a way that they could be a part of a solution that theycould just lay down the pathway
literally on top of what mighthave just been covering up with something non-walkable.those kinds of little decisions that all of us make not justabout our own health but about how we're going to change ourcommunity, i think over time and i hope it's before 60 years, aregoing to weave together and give us a chance at health because, mark is right, we -- though we're healthier as a community overall and our life expectancyis extending, that's not true for all of our neighbors, andthere is an intense sense of urgency that i feel to giveeveryone a chance to be able to
participate in and make the --and act upon their choices, right, about being healthy both through nutritional and physical fitness, so to the youth peoplewho should still be at the table, thank you, guys, forreminding us that we are caretakers of your future andyour health. and i'm asking you in return to make sure that we are thoughtful in choices that we make, even whenthey are little ones about replacing sewer lines or what wemake available in schools, and i think you also need to help usnot be assumptive.
because one thing that does happen to happen as you age, is you know a lot of things, and so you think that's your tool set, you think that's your way you're going to solve the challengesbecause that's what you know. you guys understand the world ina new way, you have a new way of thinking and collaborating andworking with people that i think is going to help us findsolutions that we haven't even dreamed of, so thank you guysfor participating today and for inspiring us, and again, thanksto this council for really keeping us on the mark for this.[applause]
>> thank you for your remarks,dr. desalvo. your personal stories were verytouching. years ago i was in new orleansfor an event with the president's council, and justseeing the markings on the homes that were devastated duringhurricane katrina was sad to see, but we went in to acommunity center, did physical activity with kids, and they weresmiling and laughing, and you know it was just a good feeling to know theimpact that we can all continue to make.well, we are wrapping this
meeting up and this is our finalformal meeting as you all know. i want to first say thank you toshellie pfohl, she has been the most amazing leader to each and everyone of us, fierce -- what was it?fierce, fearless and whatever else.she's been amazing. so i want to give a thanks toshellie pfohl, give a thanks also -- [applause]give a thanks also to my amazing co-chair, drew, when i'vementioned to people that i'm the co-chair of the president'scouncil, they always ask me, oh,
co-chair, who's the other one?drew brees. then there's no more talk aboutme. so you're pretty amazing.you've been wonderful to be around, and just a great guy,great family man, you talk about your wife and kids all the timeand i love that. also to my council member, youguys are amazing role models. i mentioned that earlier, theimpact that each and every one of you all have made and youwill continue to make. and you inspire me to want togive more.
as i mentioned earlier, jayne,steven, i can't touch you. i just know that.so thank you all for your commitment as well.[applause] i just want to end on just a fewremarks, who would have thought we would have seen a video ofpresident kennedy, rob had mentioned earlier he didn'tthink he'd ever follow such amazing remarks from a formerpresident that many years ago, but one thing that he said thatstruck me, and i've heard this before, sound mind, sound body,and that's what we need for the
next generation, we need notforget the importance of sound parenting.everything does start at the home.i understand that it's talked about in our discussions thatkids are in school the majority of the time of their day,however, i've been traveling around, giving motivationaltalks now for 20 years, which is just amazing to believe, it'sinteresting that this was my calling, and whenever i've gonearound and i've spoken to kids and i've asked them who theirrole models are in life, they do
not say an athlete.they do not say a celebrity. they do not say someone they sawon youtube that looks just nuts for their 15 minutes of fame.they either say mom or dad. mom or dad.that's what kids say to me. and i always make sure i relaythat to parents out in the audience because you need torecognize everything you say, your kids are listening.everything you do, your kids are going to model your behavior.so do remember that you have the greatest impact on your kids andyou can teach your kids to love
themselves and to love thosearound them, or not. as celebrities, or athletes, or olympians, and physicians, and everything else that's at thistable, we inspire, and it's great, and it's a blessing and it's a gift, but it'smom or dad that truly does set the esteem of a young girl or ayoung boy in this world, so we do need to remember that eachand every day, moms and dads remember, it's what you say,yes, but it's more importantly the example that you give.so if you want your kids to live a healthy lifestyle, you need tostart showing it to them each
and every day.everything they learn from the council will be like a cherry ontop, isn't cherries pretty healthy?not the ones that are in like the sugar but cherry, cherry, be a cherry on top...yeah...fruit -- ok, yeah, exactly! sweet! but we're the cherry on top but you guys are truly what the recipe is all made up of.so thank you all for this opportunity and then any final words from my amazing co-chair, drew. >> listen, that was...there's a lot of great thingsin that meeting but what you said right there was awesome.it was incredible. i could not agree more, being afather of four children, i wake
up every day and think about howi need to model for them and how i want to give them everyopportunity in life to succeed, and to continue to inspire andto be inspired, and i think we certainly could all walk away fromtoday saying we are that. in addition to walking away fromhere, feeling very, very good about what we've accomplishedover the last six years, the last 60 years, and what thiscouncil will continue to accomplish, let's also makesure -- let's identify, you know, all of us, at least one thing, and i know there's going to be many things as i can sit here and look at my notes, that we can get towork on immediately to continue
to have impact, have influencein a very positive way in our homes and in our communities.so on that note, thank you. >> the last thing i want to say,please visit our website, zeroto60fitness.org, and followus on twitter, which is @fitnessgov to stay updated on all of ouramazing activities. the meeting is now adjourned.thank you. [applause]
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