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By Lynn Sweet - Politics DailyFirst lady Michelle Obama is using more carrot than stick in prodding food makers, parents, local schools and governments to step up efforts to reduce childhood obesity. She's for the food police -- but Mrs. Obama is the good cop. That doesn't mean she is letting stakeholders off the hook. On Tuesday, Mrs. Obama urged the nation's food makers to produce and market healthier products, ramping up her rhetoric in her anti-childhood obesity campaign in a speech before the Grocery Manufacturers Association. And on Wednesday, Mrs. Obama -- an admitted lover of an occasional hamburger and fries -- ...
Obama Chows Down: 'Don't Tell Michelle'
By Lynn Sweet - Politics DailyWhile First Lady Michelle Obama spends Wednesday in Mississippi, a stop in her anti-obesity drive, it's worth noting that President Obama busted himself Tuesday when he filled a plate with southern cooking at a restaurant in Savannah, Ga. Obama quipped to the press: "I don't want any lectures about my cholesterol. Don't tell Michelle." Obama had a physical on Sunday and his doctor, Capt. Jeffrey Kuhlman, the chief White House physician, told him to watch what he eats to lower his LDL, the so-called "bad" cholesterol. In Savannah, Obama dined at Mrs. Wilkes' Boarding House restaurant with ...
Michelle Obama Takes Obesity Drive To Fattest State -- Mississippi
By Lynn Sweet - Politics DailyFirst Lady Michelle Obama brings her anti-childhood obesity drive to Mississippi -- the country's most overweight state -- on Wednesday, when she will appear with GOP Gov. Haley Barbour, who has left the door open to a 2012 White House run. Barbour cuts a portly profile; I saw him on Feb. 5 in Chicago, when he delivered a pep talk to Illinois Republicans. On Monday, in an interview with MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell, he was reminded what he said last month about a 2012 campaign: "If you see me losing 40 pounds that means I'm either running or have cancer." Asked about 2012, Barbour, who is ...
Michelle Obama's Anti-Obesity Campaign is OK, but What About Health Care?
By Sarah Wildman - Politics DailyMichelle Obama has finally stepped out from the garden and she's got something to say: Move America. You're getting chunky. Get your kids into the park and off the computer. Telling television anchor after anchor anecdotes about her own children and their body mass indexes and the Obama family's one-time penchant for quickie takeout foods, the First Lady, at the helm of a new Task Force on Childhood Obesity, is nudging America off the couch. It's a strong, admirable, message. But it's also something else: Safe. Tragically, apolitically, safe. At a moment when an entire year's worth of ...
Child Obesity in US Higher Than Ever
By Steve Pendlebury - AOL News(Feb. 9) -- It's easy to see why Michelle Obama has launched a campaign to prevent America's children from putting on too much weight. Just look around the nation's schools and malls. Or, more to point of the first lady's Let's Move program, look at the kids sitting motionless in the glow of video screens from coast to coast. The chart below illustrates the dramatic increase in childhood obesity during the past three decades. Statistics collected by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from a variety of studies over the years show the percentage of school-age children (6-19) ...
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