Commentary: After a pandemic boom in child obesity, it’s time for families to recommit to health

Get outside. Eat healthy food. Keep moving.

That all sounds easy enough, right? Such pithy directives for a healthy lifestyle are now so common that they’ve become a kind of white noise in our daily lives. But as kids return to school this fall, it’s the perfect time for families to recommit to their physical and mental health.

There’s some urgency in my recommendation. Many families are still grappling with the secondary physical and psychosocial