Washington – After visiting children at CentroNía, a bilingual child care center in Washington, D.C., First Lady Michelle Obama unveiled Let’s Move! Child Care, a new effort to work with child care providers to help our youngest children get off to a healthy start. The First Lady released a checklist that providers and parents can [...]

MRS. OBAMA: Wow. Oh, my goodness. Thank you all. Thank you so, so much. Everyone, please, please, please take your seats. Thank you so much. It is such a pleasure and it is an honor to be here today for the 101st NAACP Convention. Yes! I want to start by thanking Chairman Roslyn Brock, beautiful [...]

Solving the Problem of Childhood Obesity Within a Generation WASHINGTON, D.C. – This week, First Lady Michelle Obama joined Domestic Policy Council Director Melody Barnes and members of the Childhood Obesity Task Force to unveil the Task Force action plan: Solving the Problem of Childhood Obesity Within a Generation. In conjunction with the release of [...]

Will Allen, the founder and CEO of Growing Power Inc., has been named to the 2010 “Time 100: The World’s Most Influential People.” The list was released last week, and the magazine hit newsstands last Friday. The much-anticipated announcement identifies 25 individuals or small working groups who are most influencing the current course of world [...]

America’s move to raise a healthier generation of kids www.letsmove.gov THE WHITE HOUSE, WASHINGTON – First Lady Michelle Obama today announced an ambitious national goal of solving the challenge of childhood obesity within a generation so that children born today will reach adulthood at a healthy weight and unveiled a nationwide campaign – Let’s Move [...]