Surprisingly, most chapters within Introductory Sociology textbooks do not specifically focus on the process by which members of society learn the appropriate attitudes and behaviors about what it means to be “healthy.” What does “healthy” even mean in the face of nearly 4 out of 10 adults being obese in the U.S.? Does “healthy” mean the absence of diabetes and other chronic diseases? How does society promote a healthy lifestyle? Beginning in the 1950s, President Eisenhower determined that Americans were less healthy than Europeans and set about to create a nation of healthy youth. In the 1960s, President Kennedy created the Presidential Physical Fitness Test because he believed that “our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security.” He wrote an op-ed article in Sports Illustrated and eventually the test became mandatory and every American child had to take the fitness test in school. Initially, the test was designed to encourage and prepare young Americans for the physical demands of military service as the U.S. was involved in the Cold War. It included a softball throw — said to mimic throwing a grenade; a broad jump; a shuttle run to test agility; and pull-ups, which were designed to imitate a sailor climbing a ladder. Children in elementary school had no idea that the fitness test had anything to do with national security as most just enjoyed the competition of who could run faster or do more pull-ups. This fitness test illustrates how the government implemented a federal program that was part of the socialization process for American children in relation to being “healthy.”