Robin Roberts returned to the “Good Morning America” anchor desk this morning, five months to the day since she underwent a bone marrow transplant to…
The First Lady of The United States Michelle Obama turns 48 today! While many woman cry and complain they are getting older, the First Lady doesn’t need to because she continues to glow more and more each and every year. Being the First Lady can be a very stressful position at times. In honor of […]
Mrs. Obama is scheduled to announce the commitment from more than 100 medical schools during an appearance Wednesday at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond. The schools are agreeing to step up training for medical students in how to treat PTSD and traumatic brain injury, increase research into the conditions and share new information and best […]
Teaming up with the First Lady Michelle Obama, Beyonce has re-worked her ‘Get Me Bodied’ song to ‘Move Your Body’. Move Your Body is the theme song for Lady O’s childhood obesity campaign, “Let’s Move! Flash Workout”!
President Obama and the First Lady talk about bullying and the growing movement, led by young people, to make our communities places where young people can thrive: (WhiteHouse.Org) While it may not always be in the headlines, bullying is an issue that affects every young person in America, and we all have a responsibility to […]
Today’s words of wisdom comes from First Lady Michelle Obama, is the wife of the 44th and incumbent President of the United States, Barack Obama, and is the first African-American First Lady of the United States. She is the mother of two daughters, Malia and Sasha. Recently she launched the Let’s Move! campaign to […]
President Obama addresses nearly 14,000 people at the University of Arizona in Tucson, calling for unity and service in the wake of the shooting on Saturday. The president also relayed the good news that, earlier today, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords has opened her eyes for the first time since being shot. The President speaks at a […]
This week, President Obama signed the Healthy Hunger-Free Act into law. First Lady Michelle Obama spearheaded this campaign which falls in line with her movement, “Let’s Move” which is a nationwide campaign to address the alarming childhood obesity rates in our nation so we can raise a healthier generation of kids.
In 2001, former Surgeon General David Satcher called the prevalence of overweight and obesity in America a crisis of “epidemic proportions.” At this time, the rates of childhood obesity had tripled since 1970, and some experts predicted, for the first time in history, that children would have shorter life spans than their parents.
