Lawmakers and health department officials focused on creating healthy environments through policy making to improve fitness and nutrition.

We're promoting health and fitness throughout the year, and that has brought a lot of local people to the race. There are 20 to 30 new walkers who have never done this before. I hope they'll enjoy it and have a good time. They get points for exercise. Anything to promote health and fitness is what we're doing, and they're excited about it.

Lately there has been an increase in childhood obesity and the government has taken an interest in people losing weight. Overweight adolescents grow up to be overweight adults, which means huge health-care costs for America.

Better health is more important than beauty and with better health comes beauty.

Getting fit is all about mind over matter. I don't mind, so it doesn't matter.

I think we've been able to do both. (We've) placed more emphasis on health and wellness and physical fitness programming and we're continuing to upgrade that.