First Lady Michelle Obama took her Let’s Move initiative to the next level by launching Let’s Move: Faith and Communities, an effort to more actively engage faith-based and community organizations to help combat childhood obesity.
“All of you know how to empower people and empower them to make positive changes in their lives and for their families,” noted the First Lady. Joining Mrs. Obama in the launch were representatives of several national faith-based and community organizations, all of whom are already familiar with “the epidemic of childhood obesity in America today.”
Noting that one in three children in this country is either overweight or obese, Mrs. Obama related to launch participants by noting that “you’ve seen what’s happened when unhealthy children grow up to be unhealthy adults, struggling with issues like diabetes and heart disease.”
