Posted on 01/21/2010 10:55:22 AM PST by Steelfish
Michelle Obama Asks Mayors To Help Reduce Obesity
By DARLENE SUPERVILLE The Associated Press Wednesday, January 20, 2010
WASHINGTON -- First lady Michelle Obama urged the nation's mayors Wednesday to join her in a campaign to reduce childhood obesity.
In a speech to a meeting of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, Mrs. Obama said locally elected leaders are among the first to see what's happening to the people in their communities.
Her remarks, coming on the anniversary of her first year as first lady, marked the beginning of what Mrs. Obama has said will be a major initiative on her part to raise awareness about childhood obesity.
A formal rollout of her program is planned for next month. Mrs. Obama has said she will look to businesses and nonprofits, community and health centers, educators, religious leaders and government to help.
Childhood obesity rates have tripled in the past 30 years, and the latest figures show that about one in three children are overweight. Nearly 2 in 10, or 17 percent, are obese, or dangerously overweight.
"The statistics still never fail to take my breath away," Mrs. Obama told the standing-room only audience.
The first lady said she knows budgets are tight everywhere, but she said the nation can't afford to continue on the current path, which means that nearly half of all Americans will be obese in just 10 years.
Higher obesity rates, she said, pose a threat to the economy and the nation's collective health through increased spending on obesity-related conditions like diabetes, cancer and heart disease.
"Leadership is about having the foresight
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"Next month I'll be launching a major initiative--or movement--on childhood obesity...that mobilizes the combined resources of the federal government to work with partners across the country. "
How about setting an example?
And auctioning those overpriced glamour clothes to pay for someone else’s obesity health?
Today’s federal government in involved with every aspect of every American’s lives. A far cry from what the founding fathers had in mind for sure.
>> Michelle Obama Asks Mayors To Help Reduce Obesity
And so continues the most irresistable urge among the power-hungry ...
Busybodyism.
Mind your own damn business.
SnakeDoc
Oh, shut up, Mag Pie. Get out of our lives.
Who died and left you in charge of our families?
GO AWAY.... PLEEEEZEEE GO AWAY!
Don’t worry Michelle. With unemployment at double digits and climbing, people will be cutting back on what they eat.
thats a job for government alright.
OK. Right after she gets rid of the 25# junk in her trunk.
What will she do about her own fat a$$?
Is she calling the mayors obese? Who is she to judge! ;)
Michelle must be sexist AND racist, since the largest percentage of the obese are African-American women, IIRC
I dunno, Michelle, you could set an example by cutting back on the Wednesday night portions of wagyu beef.
In fairness, obesity is different from failing to be model-thin.
HOPE SHE CHECKS WITH THE CHOCOLATE MAYOR...it’s only fair
lotsa junk in that trunk (of the first Wookie)
charity begins at home... smile.. she looks like a plow horse in the field...
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