America is known as the land of plenty; more money, more jobs, more food, more technology, more land, more everything. Its citizens are also known for carrying around more weight. One-third of children in the U.S. are at risk of developing a chronic disease such as heart diseases and diabetes later in life for being overweight. First lady Michelle Obama became my role model for launching the Let’s Move! campaign which brought community leaders, educations, medical professionals, parents, and many others together nationwide to address the childhood obesity issue. Having Michelle Obama speak amongst the Gonzaga community will inspire the zags to build a more prosperous America. In 2010, Michelle Obama launched the Let’s Move! Campaign as an initiative to solve the problem of childhood
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In her campaign, Obama urged schools to provide healthier food, children to be more physically active, and the companies to market more nutritious food to children. Over the years, the fast-paced society has advanced toward adopting a lifestyle which fast food companies dominated for its convenience. After I immigrated to U.S. at age 7, the veggies I was accustomed to seeing on the school lunch table in China was soon replaced by hamburgers, greasy fries, and sweet chocolate milk. In merely three years, I was diagnosed for being obese; this breaking news struck my parents who had no interaction with such term and forced them to find a cause for my obesity. After a week, they found the main culprit for my unnature weight gain: school lunches. In schools where they serve foods such as oily pizza, salty French fries and sauced up chicken wings that calorie-rich and high in fat, sodium, sugar or all three, children are exposed to a greater chance of being obsessed than adults As a sister today, I was deeply concerned about my younger sister’s health when she is in school; for she, like many others her age, has an irresistible attraction to chicken nuggets
In her campaign, Obama urged schools to provide healthier food, children to be more physically active, and the companies to market more nutritious food to children. Over the years, the fast-paced society has advanced toward adopting a lifestyle which fast food companies dominated for its convenience. After I immigrated to U.S. at age 7, the veggies I was accustomed to seeing on the school lunch table in China was soon replaced by hamburgers, greasy fries, and sweet chocolate milk. In merely three years, I was diagnosed for being obese; this breaking news struck my parents who had no interaction with such term and forced them to find a cause for my obesity. After a week, they found the main culprit for my unnature weight gain: school lunches. In schools where they serve foods such as oily pizza, salty French fries and sauced up chicken wings that calorie-rich and high in fat, sodium, sugar or all three, children are exposed to a greater chance of being obsessed than adults As a sister today, I was deeply concerned about my younger sister’s health when she is in school; for she, like many others her age, has an irresistible attraction to chicken nuggets