style, and advice and a cautionary word from her own chil- dren’s pediatrician. “I thought that, if I don’t realize that my habits and our
cultural transitions are affecting our children, then where is everybody else on this issue?” Mrs. Obama says. “And having conversations across the country, [I was] finding that more families are struggling with this issue, not realizing the impact that it’s having, particularly on the African American commu- nity -- one in three kids in this country is overweight or obese, but in our community, 40 percent of our kids are overweight or obese.” The First Lady stresses the importance of attacking the
problem on multiple fronts – at home, at school and in the community. “The truth is, is that the crisis that we’re facing around childhood obesity hits everything,” she says. It’s about educa- tion, what our kids are learning about nutrition in the schools, the quality of the food in the schools. It’s about our neighbor- hood development. How are neighborhoods designed? Are our kids -- do they have access to safe places to play? Are we struc- turing communities in a way that facilitate healthy living? Are there accessible and affordable healthy foods in our communi- ties? And it’s about economic opportunity as well because if folks can’t afford to put food on the table, then they’re eating what they can.” The program also features an interview with the U.S. Sur-
geon General, Dr. Regina Benjamin. Additionally, Martin will take viewers to River Terrace Elementary School in Washing- ton, DC, a school which the First Lady has visited and which is working hard to encourage student physical activity and healthy eating habits. Viewers will also meet Will Allen, an urban farmer in Milwaukee who teaches inner city residents to garden and grow healthy food in the city; visit a store that is helping to erase the “food desert” in Philadelphia, and learn about organizations that are engaged in the fight against child- hood obesity. “All our folks didn’t fight this hard for us to get to this point
to find that the biggest threat to our children today could be their own health,” the First Lady says. “
...This is a real issue.” “We’ve got so much more work to do on all the other hard
issues that we’ve got to be healthy. We’ve got to be ready to work, and this generation has to be prepared physically and mentally for that challenge. And this is in our power. This is something we can control. There are barriers for sure, but in terms of what we put into our bodies and how we move, that’s on us -- if we have the information and the support.”
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