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Michelle Obama Launches Website to Combat Childhood Obesity
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Michelle Obama hasn't been shy in her assessment of American kids: From their fat and calorie-laden diets to their sedentary lifestyles, children in this country are headed down a path of self destruction.
In February, the first lady announced her Let's Move campaign to combat childhood obesity, and in May she launched a summer exercise series as part of her Let's Move campaign, and now she's launched letsmove.gov, a website dedicated to ending the childhood obesity crisis within a generation.
Her interest in helping American families improve their fitness and nutrition comes from personal experience.
In a video on the site, Obama says that before coming to the White House, she and President Obama were busy working parents who didn't have time to cook healthy meals, and often resorted to feeding their kids fast food and pizza. She said their pediatrician urged her to make some changes in her family's diet, and that making small changes "led to some big results." She adds, "I wanted to bring the lessons I learned to the White House."
She says the Let's Move campaign focuses on four key components:
- Help families make healthy choices;
- Improve the quality of food in schools;
- Improve access to healthy, affordable food; and
- Increase kids' physical education.
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7-09-2010 @ 8:21PM
Cathy said..."Obama says that before coming to the White House, she and President Obama were busy working parents who didn't have time to cook healthy meals, and often resorted to feeding their kids fast food and pizza. She said their pediatrician urged her to make some changes in her family's diet, and that making small changes "led to some big results." She adds, "I wanted to bring the lessons I learned to the White House."
Well I guess if I lived at the White House and had a chef at my disposal, I could afford to eat healthier too and I'm not even obese. Just an unemployed senior trying to stretch a dollar and eat something that fills me up, usually twice a day at most.
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7-09-2010 @ 9:07PM
Lisa said...Come on. I feel for you sir but you can't blame all of your problems on the Obama's. I guess everyone needs a scape goat.
7-09-2010 @ 10:21PM
moderate said...Yet you always have time and energy to criticize the president and his family. WAAAAAAA
7-10-2010 @ 12:06AM
Mick said...It the parent's responsibility to monitor what their children eat not the governments. Not every child is obese. There are more important things the president, congress and government should be concerned with, like the economy, unemployment among several important issues.
7-09-2010 @ 11:50PM
CMG said...SHE HAD A PIZZA PARTY AT TAX PAYER'S EXPENCE FOR HER DAUGHTER'S B.D. PARTY, SO MUCH FOR EATING RIGHT, SHE JUST KEEP'S PUTTING HER WORD'S IN A HOLE.
7-10-2010 @ 12:32AM
jopk said...What you eat is your choice and you can eat healthy if you want to. You don't need a personal chef to do it for you. I see too many people in the grocery store buying junk food - chips, nachos, cookies, candies, and sodas. Buy water to drink, vegitables to eat, and plan healthy meals based on the sales the stores are having. It's not that hard. When you are living on a tight budget you plan and buy what's best for you and your family.
7-10-2010 @ 1:26AM
Penny Berg said..."Senior" Cathy
Because President Obama has thankfully gotten the Health Reform Act passed, and is trying to keep Loones like Sharon Angle from taking away your Social Security and Medicare, you shouldn't be angry. What you should be is thankful we finally have a President who honestly cares about us.
By the way, all First Ladies have their "causes". For example
Mrs. Reagan's "Just Say No!", or Mrs. GWBush's "read". I do think that Mrs. Obama's cause will actually hit home to many.
7-10-2010 @ 12:48AM
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7-10-2010 @ 2:13PM
ManicD said...LISA!! I would LOVE to hear your opinion at the END of his 1st AND ONLY TERM. Unless you live under a rock, have no need of food or power (gas for your car or oil to heat your house nor electricity to cool your house) OBAMA and his comrads in Congress are going to reach WAAAY DOWN DEEP into YOUR POCKETS, to finance Universal Health Care. I'm sure you have visions of FREE or LOW COST health care, a delusion already proven false UNLESS you are an illegal, in which case the bill is paid (or will continue to be paid) by the US Taxpayer. As small pieces of this bill gets leaked, we are finding more and more outright LIES told to us by the likes of Palosi, Reid, Boxter, Biden, AND MOST OF ALL.....OBAMA. It would seem that THIS is ONLY the BEGINNING for this conglomeration of Left Wing Socialists, Marxists and Communists. It seems as if they have seen the writing on the wall, and so in order to further BANKRUPT the COUNTRY and OUR CHILDRENS FUTURES, THEY ARE PLANNING TO PASS THE LARGEST SPENDING BILLS THIS WORLD HAS EVER SEEN.......AFTER ELECTION DAY 2010. This way the few LIBS who have a chance of winning their current seats will NOT BE PUT IN DANGER OF LOSSING THE FEW SPOTS THEY FIND POSSIBLE TO KEEP. They despise our free market economy and have set out to systematically destroy it, by "bailing out" business' whose controllers have looted the Companies treasury's, lined their own pockets and put their hands out, ONLY to get them greased by Obama and Congress, If these crooks in congress and the White House let these "bail-out companies" fold as they would in due course, OTHERS who are a bit more honest would take up the slack and the economy wouldn't be nearly as bad as it is. Instead, our "government" throws MORE money at these rogue businessmen ONLY TO HAVE THEM STEAL THAT. Most Conservatives say Obama is in over his head and all this mismanagement is a case of "a man having no experience" in ANY KIND of executive roll. I contend that, "He KNOWS EXACTLY WHAT HE'S DOING" and he has such a profound for AMERICA and AMERICANS he is on a VERY DELIBERATE COURSE OF DESTRUCTION OF AMERICAN SOCIETY. Obama is neither dumb or out of his depth, and he is "on course AND on target. We will be lucky (blessed by a miracle from God) to come out of this with our Country in tact.
7-09-2010 @ 8:21PM
Elizabeth said...This is really a wonderful cause - I've got to think of how to help implement this locally~
Great job Mrs Obama!
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7-09-2010 @ 8:21PM
Luis said...What a crock !! She isn't starting anything new, her PR people are just trying to make her look useful for the millions she costs taxpayers each year. Can't wait till his term is up and America getas a real president back in the whitehouse and not just a token colored family.
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7-09-2010 @ 8:46PM
Monte said...Wow - are you vicious - and prejudice! I don't hear that mindset much in this 21st century. Have you not read the recent stats on our fat and unhealthy youth? If you care about the future of this country, it's not something you can ignore. Every First Lady champions a 'cause'. What would you have Mrs Obama do - support literacy as did the Bush First Ladies? That's not the only commendable cause. It's time to face new issues - aka, change. Do you think the Bush women didn't cost taxpayers? Do you think they didn't have support staff? If so, you are also quite naive in addition to be ill informed.
7-09-2010 @ 9:18PM
Don said..."It is not the critic who counts, not the one who points out how the strong man stumbled or how the doer of deeds might have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred with sweat and dust and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, if he wins, knows the triumph of high achievement; and who, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat."
Roosevelt
7-10-2010 @ 2:08AM
Anne said...Amen, I tired of the clown too.
7-10-2010 @ 4:06AM
Victoria said...I agree that I also can't wait to change the Obama's address in 2012. He is too inexperienced. He does not follow through with what he says, and he is arrogant without reason. His choices of overriding proper process in getting the correct people in the right positions is disgusting. Mostly because many of these people were friends from Harvard or Chicago. His loyalty to Labor bosses is deplorable. His expansion of "big government" is truly scary. He is famously quoted as saying the constitution does not protect you, it SHACKLES YOU. But most of all, he has too many pots on the fire and needs to pull a few off and prioritize, or NOTHING will get done. And I HAE how now two years in to it, he STILL blames Bush for everything, even though the democrats have had control of the senate and the house for 6 years-and HE was one of those people. He needs to suck it up, grows some, stop finger pointing and do his job!
THOSE are the reason I want him out of the White House, and not one of them have ANYTHING to do with color. I absolutely felt this country was ready for, and had been ready for a black President for a long time. Just not THAT particular one. We are also ready for a female president. Calling him a "Token" was uncalled for, racist, and just mean. I can't stand him as a President either. I turn the TV off the second I see him. But that does not mean I would dislike him as my neighbor, or brother-in-law, or Vice President. Learn to separate disliking a politician for the way they handle their job, vs. what color or gender they are. Grown up.
7-09-2010 @ 8:20PM
Luis said...What a crock !! She isn't starting anything new, her PR people are just trying to make her look useful for the millions she costs taxpayers each year. Can't wait till his term is up and America getas a real president back in the whitehouse and not just a token colored family.
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7-09-2010 @ 9:16PM
Marie said...Monte - Michelle Obama has at least 10 times the number of
personal personnel helping her as Laura Bush had and they are all paid out of our tax dollars. Really, is there a need for that many people to help her, or is she just lazy to do things for herself?
7-09-2010 @ 11:39PM
Kathy Murray said...ALL the First Ladies cost the taxpayers money! NOT just Michelle! YOU have problems. Go take your meds and shut up! I get so tired of all the haters.
7-09-2010 @ 8:43PM
JohnK said...I thought it was going to be that she learned to walk on her hind legs.
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7-10-2010 @ 1:26AM
Pen&pencil said...Dear "Senior"Cathy,
Hopefully you'll be able to food shop for those groceries that you want to buy to keep fit and healthy. The Health Reform Act that President Obama has thankfully gotten passed, as well as keeping $$$ in Social Security and Medicare untouchable, should lead to an easier time for you.
Don't sound so negative and/or angry. If you listen to loonies like Sharron Angle, you'll wind up with very much less than you have now.