mr. simmons was talking about was a very real problem that the kids aren't exercising enough. so your voices be heard, would you be part of that integrated approach? >> yes, and i would suggest that you go to the school nutrition.org website, because in their we have the press release where one of our initiatives and partnering with the first lady was to include working to make coordinated school health a concept that is one that more of our members embrace. i think very often what we have found is that when you work in partnership with the total school community, we are more successful in including the total school environment. not only from the menu planning aspect, but to the physical activity as well as, you know, even the benny program, you know, at the school because we are all supporting each other toward that same effort of reducing childhood obesity, including the health of our students. >> let me indicate i have great sympathy for a principal who says what other tool we have? but he seems to be counterproductive for what we are trying to do here. i would suggest that

mr. simmons was talking about was a very real problem that kids are not exercising enough. will your voice be heard? will you be a part of that approach? >> i would suggest that you go to the website because in there, we have a press release where one of our initiatives and partnering with the first lady was to include coordinated school health a concept that more of our members embrace. i think very often what we have found is when you work in partnership with the total school community, we are more successful in improving the total environment not only from the menu planning aspect but to the physical activity and even the vending program at the school because we are supporting each other toward that same effort. >> let me indicate that i have rincipsympathy for exacerbated -- exasperated ghi suggest that school boards d others who are involved in budgetary decisions about physical exercise need to be a part of that so that it is not just nutrition or one component but looking at the whole child and all of the different issues to really change the direction we are headed

mrs. obama has talked about the pillars and i can remember last year when we had richard simmons here talking about the necessity for exercise how children aren't getting enough exercise i remember when my own kids were in the school punishment is if the child was hyperactive they were not allowed to move around they had to sit in their seats than they would have to sit in their seats and amiss recess it was exactly the opposite of the outcome. well reintegrate the programs and bring in more people will you be part of a team if you were in a school with a day-care setting where you will actually be included in some of the decisions made by principals and teachers as part of the education process to say not only is about food and good food so children don't have too much sugar or whatever it is or carbohydrates but also make sure the policies from the playground make sense? because what mr. sims was talking about that it was not enough so you be a part of that integrated approach? >> yes. i would suggest you go to school nutrition and.org website because we have a press release where one of ou