Michelle Obama Quotes About Childhood

Quotes about: Childhood

• I am not asking anyone to take the fun out of childhood. As we all know, treats are one of the best parts of being a kid. Instead, the goal here is to empower parents instead of undermining them as they try to make healthier choices for their families.

  Michelle Obama

  Fun, Kids, Goal

• Childhood obesity issue is critically important to me because it's critically important to the health and success of our kids, and of this nation, ultimately.

  Michelle Obama

  Kids, Issues, Childhood

• Kids who participate in school meal programs get roughly half of their calories each day at school. ... This is an extraordinary responsibility. But it's also an opportunity. And it's why one of the single most important things we can do to fight childhood obesity is to make those meals at school as healthy and nutritious as possible.

  Michelle Obama

  Children, Kids, Responsibility

• Slowly but surely, we're beginning to turn the tide on childhood obesity in America. Together, we are inspiring leaders from every sector to take ownership of this issue.

  Michelle Obama

  Children, America, Issues

• For the first time, the nation will have goals, benchmarks, and measureable outcomes that will help us tackle the childhood obesity epidemic one child, one family, and one community at a time.

  Michelle Obama

  Children, Epidemics, Obesity Epidemic

• Childhood obesity isn't about looks. And it's not about weight. It's about how our kids feel. And those are really the implications of the problem and the words that tell a fuller picture of the challenges that we face; you know, kids struggling in ways that they didn't a generation ago.

  Michelle Obama

  Struggle, Kids, Childhood

• I've always tried to make sure that what I do really connects with the broader agenda of what my husband Barack Obama is trying to do.... But I also find that I have to be very passionate myself about the issue to be able to represent it well. One of the big issues that I've talked a lot about...is childhood health, nutrition and obesity.

  Michelle Obama

  Husband, Childhood, Trying

  Source: www.glamour.com

• Childhood obesity isn't some simple, discrete issue. There's no one cause we can pinpoint. There's no one program we can fund to make it go away. Rather, it's an issue that touches on every aspect of how we live and how we work.

  Michelle Obama

  Simple, Issues, Childhood

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