“The physical and emotional health of an entire generation and the economic health and security of our nation is at stake.”
~ First Lady Michelle Obama at the Let’s Move! launch on February 9, 2010Frank Bruni was a fat kid. He was also the New York Times food critic from 2004-2009 and the best-selling author of Born Round: The Secret History of a Full-Time Eater. In his deeply moving memoir, he explains the problems and perils of being fat and the emotional struggle food caused him as a child and an adult. He said he wanted to write his memoir to show “what food could do to trip people up.”
Apparently food can do a lot to trip you up. Being obese can have a devastating impact on life. A child born in this century has a one in three chance of developing diabetes and an alarmingly high percentage will suffer obesity-related conditions such as cancer, asthma, high blood pressure and heart disease. Those numbers go up dramatically in the Hispanic and African-American communities: Right now 40 percent of these children are overweight or obese.
With these statistics, is it any wonder that Michelle Obama would introduce Let’s Move to combat childhood obesity?
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Thank you so much for this amazing article. It really hits home everything that we are all about. We hope to take this program national once we get the appropriate funding. Thank you Dan for sharing our story.