Sports stars back childhood obesity crackdown
Australia's best cricketers, footballers and netballers are backing a new campaign to help reduce obesity rates among the nation's school children.
The 'Move More, Eat Well' campaign will offer classroom and playground activities aimed at promoting healthy lifestyles.
The program's ambassadors include St Kilda's Robert Harvey, Australian cricketers Mike Hussey and Karen Rolton, and netballer Sharelle McMahon.
The program encourages school children to exercise for an hour and eat seven serves of fruit and vegetables every day.
Australian batsman Hussey said even Australia's elite cricketers had changed their diets in recent years.
"We used to pile up on pastas and chips and fried fish and steaks and things like that but now there's a lot of fruit and vegetable available," he said.
"They have done a lot of study into what will help you to perform best, rather than going out after lunch and carrying that big heavy stomach that we used to do."
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