The Healthy Weight Commitment Foundation (HWCF), the CEO-led organization driving a multi-year effort designed to help reduce obesity–especially childhood obesity–by 2015, today announced the launch of a new online curriculum powered by Discovery Education. Promoting ways to help young people achieve a healthy weight through energy balance – calories in and calories out – this curriculum is now available at no cost to educators. To access the Energy Balance 101 curriculum, visit energybalance101.com.

GetSweaty is proud to be an Associate Member of HWCF.

The Healthy Weight Commitment Foundation, a CEO-led organization, is a national, multi-year effort designed to help reduce obesity–especially childhood obesity–by 2015. It’s a first-of-its kind coalition that brings together more than 95 retailers, food and beverage manufacturers, restaurants, sporting goods and insurance companies, trade associations and non-governmental organizations (NGOs). The Healthy Weight Commitment Foundation promotes ways to help people achieve a healthy weight through energy balance–calories in and calories out. It focuses on three critical areas–the marketplace, the workplace and schools.

Associate Members are businesses and organization that  support the concept of energy balance in their communications: calories in/calories out. As an associate member, GetSweaty.com will be listed as a resource on the Healthy Weight Commitment’s three new websites: www.EnergyBalance101.com, www.yourwellnessadvantage.com and  www.parents.com