First Lady Michelle Obama launches Let’s Move

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First Lady Michelle Obama launches Let’s Move
13 February 2010 3,156 views No Comment
America’s move to raise a healthier generation of kids


First Lady Michelle Obama


THE WHITE HOUSE, WASHINGTON – First Lady Michelle Obama today announced an ambitious national goal of solving the challenge of childhood obesity within a generation so that children born today will reach adulthood at a healthy weight and unveiled a nationwide campaign – Let’s Move – to help achieve it.

The Let’s Move campaign will combat the epidemic of childhood obesity through a comprehensive approach that builds on effective strategies, and mobilizes public and private sector resources. Let’s Move will engage every sector impacting the health of children to achieve the national goal, and will provide schools, families and communities simple tools to help kids be more active, eat better, and get healthy.

To support Let’s Move and facilitate and coordinate partnerships with States, communities, and the non-profit and for-profit private sectors, the nation’s leading children’s health foundations have come together to create a new independent foundation – the Partnership for a Healthier America – which will accelerate existing efforts addressing childhood obesity and facilitate new commitments towards the national goal of solving childhood obesity within a generation.

Almost a year ago, Mrs. Obama began a national conversation about the health of America’s children when she broke ground on the White House Kitchen Garden with students from Bancroft Elementary School in Washington, DC. Through the garden, she began a discussion with kids about proper nutrition and the role food plays in living a healthy life. That discussion grew into the Let’s Move campaign announced today.

Over the past three decades, childhood obesity rates in America have tripled, and today, nearly one in three children in America are overweight or obese. One third of all children born in 2000 or later will suffer from diabetes at some point in their lives; many others will face chronic obesity-related health problems like heart disease, high blood pressure, cancer, and asthma. A recent study put the health care costs of obesity- related diseases at $147 billion per year. This epidemic also impacts the nation’s security, as obesity is now one of the most common disqualifi ers for military service.

“The physical and emotional health of an entire generation and the economic health and security of our nation is at stake,” said Mrs. Obama. “This isn’t the kind of problem that can be solved overnight, but with everyone working together, it can be solved. So, let’s move.”

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http://milwaukeecourieronline.com/index.php/2010/02/13/first-lady-michelle-obama-launches-lets-move/

[glowing]

1. It probably doesn't help that schools are taking out extra curricular activities and recess and P.E.

but the policy regarding our food sources are also a problem. AND the best way to have children learn a healthy lifestyle is to help parents afford nutritious food and time to prepare it and the time to work in a work out. Seeing is learning.

[CurtEastPoint]

2. I like to Move It, Move It!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9osbpEHvQVE

[CTyankee]

3. And she looks like the picture of health, too! NOT super skinny at all.

I'm getting more optimistic that all the work that has been going on to combat this terrible problem, we are going to have success, like when we decided to quit smoking in such large numbers. I am encouraged...

[Kdillard]

4. Terrific. I hope the initiatives will have an impact.

[Cha]

5. It has worked for a lot of people I've known

over the years. A lot of times people wait until they get really depleted to start on a healthy lifestyle..this is getting ahead of the problem.

The Obama admin is trying to help and I thank them for that.

[sandnsea]

6. Her remarks

http://obama-mamas.com/blog/?p=1272

Presidential Task Force

http://obama-mamas.com/blog/?p=1268

[FrenchieCat]

7. Cool!

My daughter is in Graduate school, and a group of her and her co-horts are doing a Childhood Obesity study as we speak. I encouraged my daughter to write a letter to the first lady. She said that she would. WASHU got stimulus money that funded the study. :)

[TuxedoKat]

8. That would be great

if she got to meet the First Lady because of her work. How does your daughter like St. Louis?

[FrenchieCat]

9. She loves the school! And likes the people there

much more than when she while she live in Cambridge, although she did gain a husband there
(she was young, but what could I do....he's a Harvard grad afterall!)

She feels that folks at WASHU are not as competitive,
and don't feel the need to prove their intelligence or try to impress quite as much.
She's the type that is almost too low key; doesn't sell herself like she could;
the opposite of her Mom! :)

She's also dancing professionally now too
(she's always danced wherever she went, but never got paid for it till now)
So she's keeping quite busy, and has had nothing but good things to say about St. Louis to date,
even when it got real cold a few weeks back.
They even drove to Chicago around Thanksgiving (she'd never been)!
She liked being that close.

I think WASHU got the lion's share of stimulus for research that went to Missouri.
Her Hubby got himself a job in administration over there, at the medical school, again, due to
the stimulus spending.


Here she is....

[frazzled]

10. Everyone up from their computers for a few deep knee bends and jumping jacks!

I think we DU keyboard potatoes should get up and move a little, too.

Perhaps there should be a post every two hours or so with exercise suggestions for a ten-minute break? Or a DU "Move It" forum.