Because when you cook at home, you’re in control of your nutrition. And that’s not surprising, because food prepared at home is lower in saturated fat, sodium, cholesterol and calories than food prepared away from home. One study shows that home-cooking is actually a better predictor of how well families eat than their income. (Laughter.) But research clearly shows that home-cooking is one of the single most impactful ways for families to improve their health. Now, I know this might not seem like an earth-shattering notion - though neither was planting a garden in the White House, I will remind you. And the idea is to help families start cooking again. It’s a simple idea which will be a key focus of Let’s Move over the next year, but it is an idea that can help families create healthier new habits. We need to find new ideas from every sector to help families make manageable, affordable changes that can transform our children’s health.Īnd today, I just want to talk briefly to give an example of one of those changes. We plan to keep urging businesses to provide healthy products and market them responsibly to our kids. We plan to keep bringing fresh food into our communities. So we plan to keep building healthier schools. So through Let’s Move, we plan to keep attacking this problem from every angle, because we know there is no one magic bullet. We know that our strategies are beginning to work. Now is the time to fight even harder, because we now know it is possible to make a difference on this issue. So now is not the time to take our foot off the gas and congratulate ourselves on a job well done - just the opposite. So it is a very good thing that we have got so much momentum right now, because we still have a long way to go to solve this problem, particularly among our older children. It’s just a hint of the progress that’s possible on this issue. Yes, it is an important achievement, but in light of the magnitude of this challenge, it is a small achievement. And I think we should all be very proud of what we are achieving together, because in a fight this hard, we should celebrate every small victory we can get.īut that’s really what the CDC report represents. Today, according to a recent CDC report that I know you have all discussed, obesity rates have fallen by 43 percent among children ages two to five years old. (Applause.)Īnd today, slowly but surely, healthy habits are becoming the new norm in this country. Hundreds of new or renovated grocery stores are reaching millions of people in underserved communities - I could go on. We will soon have better nutrition labels on 700,000 food items. Food and beverage companies have cut 6.4 trillion calories from their products. Fifteen thousand childcare centers will be providing healthier snacks and getting those cute little kids up and moving. Tens of thousands of schools are removing junk food ads from their classroom. So let’s start with the good news: Because of what we have all done together, today, 32 million kids are getting healthier school meals. I want to talk about how much we’ve achieved, but more importantly, how much more we have left to do. And that’s really what I want to talk about today. You know better than anyone where we’ve been and where we need to go.
You all are truly our brain trust on this issue. (Applause.) These are major steps to making sure our families can lead healthier lives, and we are extremely grateful.Īnd of course, I want to thank all of you, the advocates and experts who’ve been working on the issue of childhood obesity long before it came into the national spotlight. So let’s give them another huge round of applause. (Applause.) PHA is doing critically important work to engage partners across the private sector, and over the past two days we’ve seen the fruits of their efforts.Īnd I am thrilled about the extraordinary commitments that have been announced at this summit, so I want to take a moment to recognize Dannon, Del Monte, Knowledge Universe, Kwik Trip, Nutri Ventures, and Sodexo. Let me start by thanking Larry, not just for his very kind introduction but for his outstanding leadership at PHA, as well as the entire staff of PHA, the board, Jim Gavin - all of you deserve a huge round of applause for your outstanding work. It is a pleasure to be here with all of you today. OBAMA: Yay to everyone! (Applause.) Thank you so much.
0 kommentar(er)
