Childhood Obesity

To solve the challenge of childhood obesity, Michelle Obama launched an initiative called Let's Move! so that children today will grow up to be healthier. This campaign seeks to give parents helpful information that support healthy choices, to provide healthier foods in schools, and to ensure that all families have access to healthy food that is affordable. Most importantly, they also seek to help children become more physically active. Although this is a huge, national campaign, it encourages everyone to be involved in reducing childhood obesity. For example, on www.letsmove.gov, they teach people how to take action; parents should get on the right track to eat well and to stay fit, schools should add healthy guidelines to the daily schedules, communities should empower families to make healthy decisions, elected officials should take action in cities and towns, kids should have fun being active and eating healthy, and health care providers should support and educate their patients in living healthier. These tasks get almost everyone in the community involved and the campaign persuades that any person could volunteer and could make a difference in reducing childhood obesity.

The service efforts are extraordinary and are already effective after only a few months of being in progress. Although this campaign has been huge in solving this issue, they could enforce a policy in schools to teach children at a young age about how to keep healthy as well. Let's Move! is very influential, especially for the families that cannot afford to have healthier foods in their houses. The first lady has succeeded in making children in America healthier and, as a result, should make sure the public knows how they have improved this issue through the use of statistics and how child obesity will continue improving.