Plan to End Childhood Obesity Epidemic

[Nonno (Premo)]

"Spearheaded by Michelle Obama, a new presidential initiative would reverse the child obesity epidemic.

The goal, as set out in a report from the White House Task Force on Childhood Obesity, is to reduce childhood obesity from 20% to 5% by 2030.

To accomplish this, the plan makes 70 recommendations for early childhood, for parents and caregivers, for school meals and nutrition education, for access to healthy food, and for increasing physical activity.

"For the first time, the nation will have goals, benchmarks, and measurable outcomes that will help us tackle the childhood obesity epidemic one child, one family, and one community at a time," Obama says in a news release.

U.S. kids haven't always been obese. Only one in 20 children ages 2 to 19 was obese in the 1970s. But around 1980 child obesity began to rocket to today's stratospheric level: Nearly one in three kids is overweight or obese, and nearly one in five is frankly obese.

Everyone knows obese kids face worse health than their normal-weight peers. What this means is that higher rates of diabetes, heart disease, cancer, and lung disease may lower children's life expectancy below that of their parents.

Other effects are becoming apparent. The U.S. armed forces now warn that one in four Americans aged 17 to 24 is too heavy for military service.

To reverse these trends, the White House plan seeks to cut child obesity and overweight rates by 2.5% by 2015 and by 5% by 2020. It's not a vague goal. Score keeping will be up to the CDC, which reports child obesity rates every two years."

"Fighting Obesity in Early Childhood

The White House plan makes 12 recommendations for early childhood. Key elements of these recommendations are:

* Educate and help women conceive at a healthy weight and have a healthy weight gain during pregnancy.
* Encourage and support breastfeeding.
* Federal and state agencies should prioritize research into chemicals in the environment that may cause or worsen obesity.
* Educate and support parents in efforts to reduce kids' screen time (i.e. less time watching television and using digital media and more time being physically active).
* Improve federal early childhood programs' child nutrition and physical activity practices."

More great stuff at: Michelle Obama's Plan to End Childhood Obesity Epidemic

[TurboK9]

Originally Posted by Nonno

"Fighting Obesity in Early Childhood

The White House plan makes 12 recommendations for early childhood. Key elements of these recommendations are:

* Educate and help women conceive at a healthy weight and have a healthy weight gain during pregnancy.
* Encourage and support breastfeeding.
* Federal and state agencies should prioritize research into chemicals in the environment that may cause or worsen obesity.
* Educate and support parents in efforts to reduce kids' screen time (i.e. less time watching television and using digital media and more time being physically active).
* Improve federal early childhood programs' child nutrition and physical activity practices."

More great stuff at: Michelle Obama's Plan to End Childhood Obesity Epidemic

Seriously?

Screen time is close.... How about encouraging parents not to use sweets, TV, and video games as a means to get the kids out of their hair, and instead do things with 'em? That'd solve 90% of the problem right there. Most parents I have seen, even the ones who have kids playing Little League and such, are so underinvolved it's sad. At the games they sit and watch TV on their Iphones instead of cheering their kids on.... Get off YOUR ### and the kids will get off theirs.

Friggin' politicians. Can't blame the parents, might offend and lose a voter....

[MMDad]

Do you have any problem with her being given $200K from one of McDonalds suppliers?

Are you so completely myopic that you cannot see blatant hypocrisy?

Shouldn't she set an example by making her husband quit smoking instead of telling me what to feed my kids?

[chernmax (Premo)]

Michelle big fat ass SEIU agenda!!!

SEIU fatcats behind First Lady’s anti-obesity campaignby Michelle Malkin

Behind every seemingly good deed in the Obama White House, there’s a deep-pocketed, left-wing special interest. Take First Lady Michelle Obama’s crusade against childhood obesity. Who really benefits from the ostensible push for improved nutrition in the schools? Think purple – as in the purple-shirted army of the Service Employees International Union. Big Labor bigwigs don’t care about slimming your kids’ waistlines. They care about beefing up their membership rolls and fattening their coffers.

Michelle Malkin » SEIU fatcats behind First Lady’s anti-obesity campaign

[ImnoMensa]

Originally Posted by chernmax

Michelle big fat ass SEIU agenda!!!

SEIU fatcats behind First Lady’s anti-obesity campaignby Michelle Malkin

Behind every seemingly good deed in the Obama White House, there’s a deep-pocketed, left-wing special interest. Take First Lady Michelle Obama’s crusade against childhood obesity. Who really benefits from the ostensible push for improved nutrition in the schools? Think purple – as in the purple-shirted army of the Service Employees International Union. Big Labor bigwigs don’t care about slimming your kids’ waistlines. They care about beefing up their membership rolls and fattening their coffers.

Michelle Malkin » SEIU fatcats behind First Lady’s anti-obesity campaign

I never thought about that, but it is something that needs reviewing.

[chernmax (Premo)]

Originally Posted by ImnoMensa

I never thought about that, but it is something that needs reviewing.

I support the cause but when you add SEIU it becomes tainted!

And SEIU (the right arm of ACORN) stands to make BILLIONS, with a goal of not only healthy school lunches, but expanding it to healthy dinners and year round free feeding programs throughout the summer too.

I'm sure when the Obama's get kicked out the White House, Michelle will have a well paying Board of Directors job with SEIU!!!

And probably still work with McDonald's food suppliers on the down low. You can't have decades of taxpayer money fighting childhood obesity if you don't secretly feed them to keep the crises going and money flowing!!!

[FredFlash]

Originally Posted by Nonno

The U.S. armed forces now warn that one in four Americans aged 17 to 24 is too heavy for military service.

The U. S. government's power to provide for the common defense is enough authority for Congress to legislate regarding obesity.

[ImnoMensa]

Originally Posted by chernmax

I support the cause but when you add SEIU it becomes tainted!

And SEIU (the right arm of ACORN) stands to make BILLIONS, with a goal of not only healthy school lunches, but expanding it to healthy dinners and year round free feeding programs throughout the summer too.

I'm sure when the Obama's get kicked out the White House, Michelle will have a well paying Board of Directors job with SEIU!!!

And probably still work with McDonald's food suppliers on the down low. You can't have decades of taxpayer money fighting childhood obesity if you don't secretly feed them to keep the crises going and money flowing!!!

One day the government will stop playing around with indoctrinating kids in the schools and simply take them from the parents when they are born and raise them like they want them raised.

[HeavyChevy75]

This is bull poppy..

It is more than just healthy school lunches.

It is getting the kids away from the television sets/videos games/computer games.

She should also buy all the kids a bike and a safe place to ride it. Take all the losers of society and lock them up so the kids can ride the bikes without worrying about getting kidnapped or mugged for the bikes.

It is more than just food with these kids.

I know that growing up in the 80's we had 2 recesses that were a half hour each. This went on until junior high. We also had gym class twice a week.

Now I think the kids have gym once a week if at all? And most of the time the kids can give excuses for not having to do gym class.

[mAlice]

Originally Posted by HeavyChevy75

She should also buy all the kids a bike and a safe place to ride it.

Please don't encourage her.