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THE HEALTHY APPS FOR KIDS CHALLENGE HAD TEAMS FROM
ACROSS THE NATION DESIGN APPS AND GAMES THAT
ENCOURAGE HEALTHY EATING AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY.
AGRICULTURE SECRETARY TOM VILSACK SAID THE CONTEST'S
GOAL WAS TO TEACH CHILDREN THE IMPORTANCE OF GOOD
HEALTH FOR THEMSELVES AND SOCIETY.
Tom Vilsack: We wanted them to understand the
choices that they can make.
The important choices they make for themselves and
for their country in terms of what they eat.
HEALTH AND HUMAN SECRETARY KATHLEEN SEBELIUS SAID THE
APPS AND GAMES WOULD PROVIDE A COUNTER TO
INFORMATION ABOUT LESS HEALTHY FOODS.
Kathleen Sebelius: We need to have an equally strong
and powerful challenge to begin to reeducate kids
about how what they eat is connected to how they
feel, how they learn and their opportunity to be
healthy in the future.
FORMER N-F-L PLAYER BRIAN MITCHELL SAID HEALTHY
HABITS NOW WOULD TRANSLATE INTO GOOD HEALTH FOR
FUTURE GENERATIONS.
Brian Mitchell: Kids are our future.
Well, kids become adults.
And if those kids learn things while they are
young, when they become adults, they're going to
pass it on to their kids and we're not going to
have those problems.
THE DESIGNERS CAME UP WITH INTERESTING AND
EDUCATIONAL APPS AND GAMES TO CHALLENGE CHILDREN
WHILE ENTERTAINING THEM.
Mike Carcaise: You can actually take from a menu
and drag and drop the food items onto a plate and
then there are meters along the right hand side
that will tell you, is there too much salt, is
there not enough protein.
Frederic DeWulf: Smash Your Food takes ten of the
most commonly abused foods by kids in the USA today,
burgers, fries, milkshakes and it literally squishes
them and smashes them to smithereens and shows you
how much sugar, salt and oil and fat there is in them.
YOU CAN SEE THE WINNING APPS AND GAMES AT APPS FOR
HEALTHY KIDS DOT COM.
IN WASHINGTON D-C FOR THE U-S DEPARTMENT OF
AGRICULTURE, I'M BOB ELLISON.