Updated May 27, 2014.
As part of its ambitious plan to childhood obesity within a generation campaign to eliminate, First Lady Michelle Obama speaks frequently about health, nutrition and fitness of children. These quotes are a sample of some of your comments on these topics.
"With the rotation O, we expect to continue to attack the problem from all sides, because we know that it is not a panacea.'s Why we want to continue to build better schools. We intend to continue to bring fresh food in our communities. We want to continue to invite companies to offer healthier products and market responsible for our children. Yet we must continue to innovate., we must continue to push the envelope. need new ideas from all areas to help families change, affordable and manageable, the can transform the health of our children. "-Partnership for a healthier America Building a healthier future Summit, 03.14.14
"If the average child now spends nearly eight hours a day in front of a screen or another, influenced many of their views and preferences through marketing campaigns that create it. And here is where the problem is. ... And I I here today with a simple question and that is, do more and faster with the responsibility for our children to market. "-white home visit in the food marketing and children, 09/18/13
"I do not ask anyone to take pleasure from childhood. As we all know, sweets are one of the best parts of being a child. Instead, it is the goal of parents held in their attempt to make decisions undermine them be healthier for their families. "-white home visit in the food marketing and children, 18/09/13
"Since we as possible to help in movement! Let initiative, I am looking for as many ways families and children to lead a healthier life. And I've realized that if we as" a milestone for us to accept and our family is healthy, probably the best thing we can do is drink plenty of water is that just drink more water ... "-" Drink Up Start "campaign, 12/09/13
"Some kids have never been what seen a real tomato, looks like vines., You do not know where a cucumber comes. And that really affects how they perceive food. Example, a garden helps to really and get to work, literally to understand the whole process of where their food comes from. And I wanted to see how difficult and rewarding it is to grow your own food in order to better understand what our farmers do every day across the country and an appreciation of .. . the American tradition of growing our own food and feed themselves. "-at The Ministry of Agriculture, USA 05.03.13
"Little by little, we begin to turn the tide of childhood obesity in America. Together we inspire leaders from all sectors to support this." Building a Healthier Future Summit, 03.08.13
"We as parents are the first and the best models for our children, and this is especially true when it comes to your health. ... We can not lie in bed eating chips and candy and expect our children to eat carrots and run around the block. "Building a Healthier Future Summit, 08.03.13
. "You have to keep your body active, even if it means you simply turn off the music and dance for an hour ... So will the size prepare your body and mind." Come Move! Start Active Schools, 28/02/13 (Comments Children)
"No, I only with local municipal officials ... started because I knew that they understand the problem. I started with them because I knew that our cities and counties could be an important part of the solution to this problem.. .. There is no single policy or program that can solve this problem size. And Washington certainly do not have all the answers. Instead, many of the best solutions to the most innovative and effective beginning in our communities and our cities and county. "Move to Stop! Cities, towns and counties Communication, 18:07:12
"With this new initiative, what does Disney not a big media company has ever before in the United States. And I hope that each company will continue to make when it comes to the ads that are displayed and the food sell it, comes, ask a simple question: Is it good for our children, "I have regularly. Pressures to notice marketing standards for healthy food Disney 06/05/2012
"One of the things I want ... is to keep all children in mind, that this here [Major League Soccer] Stars are not born athletes superstar ... Many of them started as many of you on a school team -Game, or easy. stuck But only one ball on the playground with their friends with him. And I tell my girls all the time. I mean, up to a point where you get ... the things that you start love, difficult to get ... is when you know you is the right, and you, to stick by it. "Come Move event with LA Galaxy 15/05/2012
"This year 1.7 million young people in the Olympic and Paralympic sports to participate in their communities, many of them for the first time. And this is so important, because sometimes it is enough that the first lesson or a clinic or a class of a child excited about a new sport. this summer, with our children, we can support Team USA not only by the cheers -Announcement commitments from other sports federations, but strive the example they live set. "offer on children's programs, 14.05. 2012
"While the budget just at the moment, there are schools across the country that shows a lot of money or resources to our children the nutrition that is not necessary to earn them. -this What is needed is, however, is the effort. What is needed is the imagination., it takes a commitment to the future of our children. "lunch -School Advertising Standards, 25.01.2012
. "We all have two grandmothers who cooked, had to eat three vegetables in communities was no ifs and buts about it, but that's because many of our grandparents parents, had the communal gardens., He was vegetable man who came around him were many other resources, the access so it's not that people do not know or not to do the right thing .. they need them, is access to the foods that they know that their families make healthy "mayor Summit for Food deserts, Chicago, 10.25.2011.
"In the 10 cities the highest obesity in the nation, the direct costs associated with the disease of obesity and overweight around $ 50 million per 100 000 population. And if these 10 cities just cut their obesity below the national average, all International Conference National League, 03/15/2011 Added to combine, save about 500 million dollars in health care costs per year. "
"It's not to say government what to do. ... It is for each of us, in our families, our communities are, and demand more from our children. Y are companies such as Wal-Mart, this call to reply. "-Announcement Nutrition Letter From Walmart, 01/20/2011
"We are all agreed that in the richest country in the world, all children complete primary diet, to learn and grow and to pursue their dreams, because in the end, nothing is more important than the health and welfare of our children need. This ... are the core values that we all share, regardless of race, party, religion. Is that what we share. Below are the values embodied this bill. "-Signing Act of healthy children without hunger, 12 / 13/2010
"Parents have a right to expect that their efforts at home not every day in the school cafeteria or in the vending machine in the hallway be undone. ... Parents have the right to expect that their children are healthy fresh food, the high nutritional standards met. "-Healthy, Children Act of signature without hunger
"Child hunger and child obesity are they to be successful, our two sons in the fields of energy, strength and endurance in school and in life really two sides of the same coin. Stealing. And that, in turn, robs our country much of its promise. "-Healthy, Children Act of signature without hunger
"Obesity is not a simple matter. It's discreet no one we can point lead. There is no program that can fund to make it disappear. Rather, an issue that affects every aspect of how we live and how we work, it is. " Conference Legislative Black Caucus Foundation -Congressional, 2010.09.15
"We can make a commitment for fruit and vegetables and whole grains on every part of every menu allows you to make many smaller size and to promote the emphasis on quality rather than quantity, and we can help create a culture - imagine .. -., where our kids ask for healthy options instead of resisting them "-National Restaurant Association Meeting case Council 09/13/2010
"We live in a time where we just do not have enough time. Humans are in a hurry., You are consuming, regular. Insufficient resources. ... But what I want people to understand about this campaign is that families can to make small, manageable changes in their lives, which can have a profound impact. "Move the Web Come live chat, 2010.07.13
"Black children are much more likely to be obese than white children to be. Nearly half of African American children's diabetes at some point in their lives to develop. Moment gene that half of our children. ... We can build better schools for our children on earth, but if they do not have the basic food they need to focus, you have a learning challenge. "-NAACP 101st Congress, 07/12/2010
"They are all here for the same reason, because the power that food can have in our lives know to appreciate. ... Each of you has a lot to offer when it comes to make helping our children get healthy choices . you know more about food than almost anyone-except-grandmothers and have the visibility and the enthusiasm to match that knowledge.
- "Let's go!" Chefs Move Schools event 06.04.2010
"We do not need new discoveries or new inventions to reverse this trend., We have the tools available to reverse the trend. All we need is the motivation, the opportunity and the will to do what needs to be done. With ... this report, we have a very strong, we need to make these goals real roadmap, to solve this problem within a generation. "
Kid-press conference announcing the report of the Working Group of obesity, 11.05.2010
"Our children do not need to do it yourself., You do not decide the amount of sugar in soft drinks or advertising content of a television program. Children not to choose for lunch at school, and should not decide what He uses to dinner house. And they do not decide whether to get it in the day time or room in the budget healthier diet or a lot of time playing outdoors. "
-Childhood Obesity Summit, 04/09/2010
"We must ensure that our children always feel good about themselves, regardless of weight, no matter how they feel. Must we ensure that our children know that we love them, no matter who they are, how they are what they eat. "
Move occur Hall, 04/07/2010
"As a mother, I know it is my responsibility and not something else is my child rearing is. But what does it mean when so many parents find that their efforts are undermined by an avalanche of advertisements aimed at children? And these ads that teach children good to have about food and nutrition?'s, sugary and salty snacks daily for breakfast, lunch and dinner? "
-Grocery Manufacturers Association, 03/16/2010
"Children who participate in school meal programs receive about half of their daily calories at school. ... This is an extraordinary responsibility., But it is also an opportunity. Why you can do the most important things to obesity in children is to combat these to make school meals as healthy and nutritious as possible. "
-School Nutrition Association, 01/03/2010
"The physical and emotional health of an entire generation and the economic health and security of our nation is at stake. This is not the kind of problem that can be solved overnight, but they all work together, can be solved. Example, time. "
Move Let announcement, 02/09/2010
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