High School Swimmer Helps Save Coach in Pool
from MSNBC
A high school swimmer helped save the life of her swim coach during practice this week. "It's kind of like a dream. Kind of unbelievable," said the high school freshman Hannah Fuller. Fuller was at the school's pool for a practice when her coach, Chas Grimm, when an unexpected circumstance changed two lives. More

Senators Urge Obama to Improve Child Nutrition
from Reuters
Forty senators including the No. 2 Democratic leader asked President Barack Obama on to expand federal child nutrition programs to help meet his goal of ending childhood hunger. Richard Durbin, the assistant majority leader, Tom Harkin, chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, and 38 others requested that the fiscal year 2010 budget contain new funding for child nutrition programs. More

Fitness Need Not Cost an Arm and a Leg
from Chicago Tribune
With each New Year comes resolutions to get physically fit, which often means spending money on a fitness-center membership or home gym equipment Those can be good options to help people get in shape. But fitness experts say you don't need to spend a lot of money to exercise well. From gym-class calisthenics to inexpensive home equipment, people on an exercise kick have many options that are cheap or free. More

Dreams Don’t End Here
from BYUCougars.com
Olympic trials, ranching, Portuguese, University of Texas, Namibia, Africa, Fortaleza, Brazil, and German are only a few words to describe the diverse life one BYU swimmer has lived. Gregor Greiner is a 6-foot-5 University of Texas transfer senior sprinter for the BYU swim team. Even after having a variety of life experiences, the fastest BYU swimmer has more to discover, especially that of his potential. More

Eating with Your Stomach, Not Your Eyes
from CNN
It's halfway through January and your initial enthusiasm for those fitness resolutions may be waning. After maintaining an austere, healthy diet for a few weeks, the desire to eat a juicy cheeseburger proves too irresistible for some dieters. Rather than beating yourself up after having a setback, learn from the missteps, experts say. More

Free Public Exercise Classes May Boost Activity Rates
from Los Angeles Times
Free exercise classes in a public setting might be just what it takes to make residents of a city more active. It seems to be working for residents of Recife, the fifth-largest city in Brazil. There, city officials set up free calisthenic and dance classes in 21 public places, enrolling more than 10,000 residents a year starting in 2002. More

Olympic Swimmer Inspires Kids
from The Miami Herald
Olympic gold medalist Cullen Jones held up his shiny, thick medal for the 200 kids who came to hear him speak at the Greater Hollywood YMCA on Friday, using the event to advocate swimming safety. Jones, the first black American to break a world swimming record in the Olympics as part of last summer's thrilling U.S. 4x100 freestyle relay team, is traveling around the country to encourage children, especially minorities, to learn to swim. More