Recognizing Healthy Communities: The 2014 All-America City Awards.

The article focuses on the All-American City Awards which awards healthy cities and communities in the United States. Information on the city Marshall, Texas, who won the award in 2014, their strategy of promoting health and physical activity, and how the winners of the awards are picked is presented. Also included is information on the National Civic League (NCL), which established the award in 1949, as well as information on statistics of the obesity rate in the United States and the promotion of healthy eating.