Posted on 01/10/2014 11:52:37 AM PST by 12th_Monkey
The healthy school lunches touted by Michelle Obama have not been popular. (RELATED: Kentucky students to first lady Michelle Obama: Your food ‘tastes like vomit’)
The complex body of meal regulations implemented by the Department of Agriculture under the “Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010″ has long been a signature issue for the first lady—at least until just last week when the USDA permanently abandoned the act’s ironic limitations on kids’ caloric intake of protein and carbohydrates.
Michelle Obama’s other signature issue — the Let’s Move! campaign to combat childhood obesity — also looks to be rapidly heading to the ash heap of history.
The Let’s Move! campaign was announced in 2010. Its ambitious goal: to solve the obesity problem in America within a generation.
So far, things aren’t going well. The latest data on kid fitness suggests that 3 in 4 kids aged 12 to 15 fail to meet the federal government’s minimum recommendations of an at least an hour of vigorous activity each day, reports an Associated Press at WNYW.
The data comes from a 2012 National Youth Fitness Survey of about 800 teens and preteens. The kids self-reported their own physical activity. They also submitted to physical exams.
Federal researchers would not express disappointment in a statistic showing that fully 75 percent of American kids don’t do a bare minimum of exercise each day.
“There’s always room for improvement,” said Tala Fakhouri, an optimistic scientist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention who was the lead author of the study.
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She should move—right outta the White House.
I seem to remember a controversy somewhere that a parent packed lunch wasn’t “acceptable” in the eyes of that particular state. The sack lunch was taken from the little girl and had her eat a cafeteria lunch.
absolutely. SHe would turn her nose up at eating peasant food.
I recall something of that too. The kids were lucky, thus far, where I coached HS baseball for 3 seasons.
I have nothing against getting better food and more choices into the school cafeteria, I just don’t think it’s any of the states business nor Michelle Obama.
She must have said that duing a brief period when her mouth was not stuffed with food.
she probably said “move!” I’m trying to get to the buffet.
Nooooo ... isn't that where that really cool cantina is located? I want to visit there someday! ;-)
I am sure she will whip the Huts into shape, lol
That's why Moochelle has a 100 lb ass. She's a pig.
Crappy food and cutting back on recess and PE.
What result did they expect?
“I thought Let’s Move was a laxative product!”
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