The Terminator: Adults should help kids get fit

COLUMBUS (AP) — California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger told an Ohio audience that adults who enjoy staying fit need to inspire young people, to help fight childhood obesity.

The body builder and former movie star spoke Sunday to people attending an annual sports festival in Columbus that bears his name.

Schwarzenegger said childhood obesity leads to high health-care costs, which are best brought down through “prevention, prevention, prevention,” as he put it. He added that that’s what the Arnold Sports Festival is all about.

The three-day fitness event that ended Sunday has grown out of a relatively small bodybuilding contest in Columbus that Schwarzenegger won 40 years ago.