Kids combat childhood obesity with creativity and video camera

 

A recent story from KTVQ in Billings, Montana caught my eye and showed how a 5 and 7 year old sister pair are stepping up to fight obesity in their state.  The link below will take you to a video of the story. 
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BILLINGS - We hear it all the time, kids nowadays spend too much time inside in front of the TV and not enough time outside on the playground.

But a pair of sisters are using the TV to get their friends outside.

In a Billings Overcome Childhood Obesity campaign video, 7-year-old Leila chases her 5-year-old sister Emma down the street with a 5lb bag of sugar in her arms, and it's no easy task.

"That might be what would be inside of you," said Leila Ornsby. "You might feel really heavy. It felt really heavy for me and I thought that might be how I would feel if I was obese and I wouldn't want to feel like that forever."

It's a feeling 30% of Montana kids know all too well.

According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, one in three children across the state are overweight or obese, a growing problem in the U.S.

So Billings Clinic asked Yellowstone County kids to help combat this epidemic with a little creativity and a video camera.

Click here for the full story: http://ht.ly/yRyUs

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