[United States Statutes at Large, Volume 127, 113th Congress, 1st Session]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

 
PROCLAMATION 8970--APR. 30, 2013

Proclamation 8970 of April 30, 2013

National Physical Fitness and Sports Month, 2013
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
Over the past 3 years, communities all across America have joined First
Lady Michelle Obama's Let's Move! initiative, which aims to help parents
make healthy choices and give our children a strong start. Today,
families have more of the tools and know-how they need to embrace a
healthy lifestyle. Kids and adults are finding new ways to bring
exercise into their daily lives. And by getting active, our youngest
generation is not only improving their health, but also their ability to
learn and be successful later in life. During National Physical Fitness
and Sports Month, we celebrate that progress and keep striving for more.
To help more kids and families get moving and make exercise a lifelong
habit, we are working to create more opportunities for physical
activity--whether on the playground, in the classroom, or at work.
Through Let's Move! and the President's Council on Fitness, Sports, and
Nutrition, we continue to advance that mission by collaborating with
partners in every corner of our country--public and private, large and
small, national and neighborhood. Together, we are helping cities,
towns, and counties raise a healthier generation of kids. And earlier
this year, we built on that work by launching a new program to bring
physical activity back to our schools. To learn more and join in, visit
www.LetsMove.gov and www.Fitness.gov.
With simple steps, all of us can make physical activity a way of life.
This month, we recognize Americans who are choosing that future for
themselves and inspiring others to do the same. We also take this
opportunity to renew the call to action. I encourage business, faith,
and community leaders to uphold physical activity as an important way to
enrich our neighborhoods. I call on schools to make good health and
exercise part of a good education. And alongside our friends and fam-



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ily, let each of us recommit to leading a healthy, active lifestyle, and
setting our children on the path to a bright future.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of
America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and
the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim May 2013 as National
Physical Fitness and Sports Month. I call upon the people of the United
States to make daily physical activity, sports participation, and good
nutrition a priority in their lives.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this thirtieth day of
April, in the year of our Lord two thousand thirteen, and of the
Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and thirty-
seventh.
BARACK OBAMA