Our mission is to provide a proactive, effective program to decrease childhood obesity by providing a vehicle to extend the learning environment while fostering healthy skills to be used throughout their lives. We want to help ensure that children have a fair chance at living a long healthy life. The Get Fit with Coach Smith program is a 501.C3 non-profit organization. Our organization will seek grants to open centers world-wide and offer a progressive diversified program to eradicate childhood obesity.
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Childhood obesity has rapidly spread across race, gender and class lines, but its prevalence has increased disproportionately among African American, Hispanic and Native American children. The leading group of obese children in the United States is African American girls who account for 23% of the obesity epidemic. The continuous rise of obesity in children has grave implications for the future. Childhood obesity has an annual cost of 117 billion dollars to our health care system. As children put on additional weight, their rate of disease increases as well. Children are being diagnosed with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, type II diabetes, various forms of cancer and a host of other serious, life threatening diseases.