Posted on 06/09/2011 8:44:54 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
WASHINGTON (AP) - Michelle Obama dropped in on lunch and circle time at a Washington child care center on Wednesday and used the occasion to announce a new national initiative to encourage child care centers to promote healthy eating and exercise habits starting with the littlest Americans.
The first lady watched as toddlers ate a healthy lunch of fish, fruit and salad greens, did the bunny hop with youngsters in a P.E. class and clapped along with singing time at CentroNia, a bilingual child care center that stresses just the kinds of healthy practices that Mrs. Obama is trying to encourage.
The first lady said instilling good health habits through child care centers and home-based care can be "a real building block for an entire generation of healthy kids." She noted that more than half of obese children first become overweight before they reach their second birthday.
Mrs. Obama announced that 1,600 child care centers nationwide already have committed to standards that promote healthy eating, exercise and limited time in front of TV, computer and other screens. And she released a checklist that parents and child care centers can use to make sure they're hitting the right notes.
The first lady said child care centers run by the Defense Department, the General Services Administration and Bright Horizons, a private company that manages child care centers for many corporations, hospitals, universities and government agencies, all had signed on to the program.
She was joined by Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Gen. James Cartwright, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Cartwright recalled that when his children were young, military child care centers were sometimes "just a corner of a hangar" without clear standards. Some 200,000 children use military child care centers daily.
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yo, fat-ass... shut the f*ck up!
nobody asked you.
nobody elected you.
nobody gives a rat’s a** what comes out of your piehole, except the sycophants
please, just go away
Was playing with my younger brother by one year..he was making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Kept grabbing a slice of bread..as he was fixin it. Finally he grabbed another brother’s baby bottle..they were not plastic.
He tossed it at me..broke my front tooth in half. Try hiding that from your mom. Must have been in the 4th grade. Did not fix the tooth till I was 22.
“You had me at bologna.”
Baloney..
Someone should begin a weekly report on what Michelle ate that week, the calorie count and whether or not she ate out of the insecticide laced vegetable garden.
I applaud this move on her part.
Targetting a toddler’s diet is the right thing for her to do. If she manages to stay on the diet for more than a day or two, she may actual approach a healthier weight.
Oh no I di-int!
Star with your big eared baby of a husband first.
At the rate they’re collapsing us, it won’t matter soon and there won’t be anymore fat people left in the country. Who will be able to afford food??
And just go away, Moocher M’Antoinette.
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