Teens seem to be eating more veggies, less sugar and are exercising more often, according to a study published in Pediatrics. While most teens still fall below federal guidelines of getting an hour or more of exercise a day, the trend is encouraging to some experts.

“In some ways you can interpret what we found positively by saying we’re beginning to bend the curve, and hopefully we’ll start seeing a downward trend in obesity,” says Dr. Ronald J. Iannotti, who authored the study and chairs the department of exercise and health sciences at the University of Massachusetts Boston. (New York Times)

Paul Asay has covered religion for The Washington Post, Christianity Today, Beliefnet.com and The (Colorado Springs) Gazette. He writes about culture for Plugged In and wrote the Batman book God on the Streets of Gotham (Tyndale). He lives in Colorado Springs with wife Wendy and his two children. Follow him on Twitter.