Posted on 05/24/2013 9:23:06 AM PDT by IbJensen
(CNSNews.com) – First Lady Michelle Obama’s “Let’s Move!” initiative is praising textbook publishers for “swapping out cupcakes for apples in math problems,” in a campaign to incorporate health information into the learning resources for kids.
“Today at the White House, we celebrated a group of educational publishers on their development of voluntary guidance to incorporate health information into textbooks and other learning materials,” Let’s Move! said in a blog post entitled, “Cookies 2 Carrots,” on Wednesday.
“Publishers are making simple changes, like swapping out cupcakes for apples in math problems,” the anti-obesity initiative noted. “They are also finding ways to include physical activity in lesson plans – discussing the history of little league baseball and using sports in word problems.”
Let’s Move! – a government initiative started by Mrs. Obama – aims to curb the obesity rate among children in the U.S. Mrs. Obama has recently expanded her campaign to museums and zoos asking them to change their menus, and also wants to “impact the nature of food in grocery stores.”
The first lady now wants textbook companies to join the cause.
Mrs. Obama praised several publishers that are “voluntarily coming together to support the health of our nation’s children,” Let’s Move! said.
The Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO); the Association of American Publishers (AAP), a trade association that represents 300 book publishing companies; the Association of Educational Publishers (AEP); and the National Association of State Boards of Education (NASBE) were celebrated at the White House on Wednesday.
“Just as these publishing companies came together thirty years ago to incorporate greater diversity into textbooks, they are now using their platform to have a positive impact on children’s health,” Let’s Move! said. “We congratulate them on their exciting leadership.”
From the size of her butt, the worst lady needs to replace cupcakes with the carrots she wants everybody but her to eat. She and that worthless know-nothing illegal alien she calls her 'husband' are garbage.
Can we swap residents in the White House too?
Mooschelle doing the really important work for the nation and its kids...NOT!
Well, mooch, we would have liked to have a decent president. Nobody wins.
Then Michelle is admitting that these books influence children. So pushing the homosexual agenda isn’t harmless?
Tell her fine, we’ll do it when you and not the taxpayer cough up the money to print new books since it’s your demand we do so.
So cupcakes are healthy and apples not. OK
To people with brilliant minds like Michelle’s this is a BFD.
To the rest of us ignorant slobs it doesn’t amount to much
That should really help out all those struggling textbook publishers!
So kids will associate healthy food with hard confusing math...
Great Moochelle.... Now they will never eat healthy again...
They can use whatever they want..Apples, cupcakes, condoms, etc...but they still will get to a job a McD’s and won’t know how to make change..babies..yes. Change..no way.
Yep. I would like to swap the President in the White House for an American.
Why is her left eye going in a different direction?
For people who claim to love Diversity they sure like central control and planning which is the antithesis of Diversity...
This about laying the foundations of Government control of food supply and dietary habits, although she really does seem to have food issues and perhaps is secretly victim to an eating disorder.
At any rate, carrots will popular for subtraction lesson, perhaps not much for addition.
And that is going to help students learn math, how?
In the Obamaeconomy, you’re lucky to be able to afford either one.
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