Topic: Michelle Obama

Obesity fight begins at home: Michelle Obama

US First Lady Michelle Obama's campaign against childhood obesity took a personal turn when she said she is paying more attention to a key body fat measurement for her own daughters.Obama said she was surprised to learn that her daughters' body mass ...

Michelle Obama gets a Republican boost on obesity

Two Republican heavyweights came to the defense of First Lady Michelle Obama Sunday, breaking ranks with some of their party's top stars who have taken jabs at her campaign against obesity.Mike Huckabee, a formerly overweight talk show host who is a possible ...
First Lady Michelle Obama enlisted the help of supermarket giant Wal-Mart on Thursday as she ramped up her fight against the scourge of childhood obesity in the United States.Obama stood beside the vegetable section in a Washington Wal-Mart as the largest US ...
While President Barrack Obama is overseeing two wars in the Middle East, wife Michelle declared war on childhood obesity on the home front. It is a theme Obama emphasised by planting a vegetable garden on the White House lawn during the first ...
My most vivid childhood memories are from grade school. I was "the fat kid. This year, Michelle Obama is asking the country to make a commitment to solve our childhood obesity epidemic. Obesity breaks children's hearts as it destroys their bodies and ...
DO AS I SAY, NOT AS I DO?We all know about Michelle Obama and her campaign to wipe out obesity. One would think the individual conducting such a campaign would NOT need to lose weight themselves, but she is an Obama. Still ...

Disney gets behind US child obesity campaign

The Walt Disney Company on Thursday threw its weight behind the campaign championed by US First Lady Michelle Obama to push back child obesity with the launch of a massive effort to get US kids to grow up in good health.The "Magic ...

Michelle's War On Fat

Big Government: American first ladies often go to bat for good causes. But Michelle Obama's push for intrusive regulations, pressure tactics and one-size-fits-all solutions to end obesity goes too far. "Even if we give parents all the information they need and improve ...
By Presidential Proclamation, the month of September is National Childhood Obesity Awareness Month and supports the First Lady Michelle Obama initiative, "Let's Move." What are some of the primary causes that often are the foundation for obesity, addiction and eating disorders? How ...
Today marks the first day of the first-ever Childhood Obesity Awareness Month in the U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand of New York introduced a resolution in the Senate last February to create the designation. " It also mentions First Lady Michelle Obama's obesity ...
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