(CBS News) — First lady Michelle Obama has a medication for fighting childhood obesity: Get moving. She showed off some moves in Chicago on Thursday — compelling an thought to combine practice with learning. Picture kids counting while doing aerobics.
CBS’s Dr. Jon LaPook spoke with Mrs. Obama about her onslaught to get companies to stop selling junk food to kids.
Obama: This is a generational goal, and we need to keep pulling each step of a way.
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LaPook: You have finished that pulling each step of a way, though there has been a lot of pull behind from attention – is it only too tough to get attention to stop selling for kids?
Obama: One of a things that we have to remind relatives is that we are a ones that set a demand. So if we are seeking a food producers and a grill bondage and a companies that sell us food and marketplace to us, if we are changing that direct curve, they are going to follow us. It is unequivocally a proof of a market. If we direct it, they will make it is since they are perplexing to, they wish us to buy their stuff.
LaPook: Can we give me some discernment into what was going on in your possess domicile in terms of your kids flourishing up, perplexing to get them to eat right and exercise?
Obama: It was no opposite than anyone one else’s household. What brought me to this emanate were my possess challenges. we was a operative mom with a bustling father and perplexing to figure out how do we cobble together a dish that your kids are going to like and not simper over. We were eating out some-more than we realized. We ate a lot some-more processed dishes since they are quicker to prepare, since we are looking for a discerning meal. But with only a few changes — expelling sweetened drinks, removing my kids to splash some-more water, putting some-more vegetables on a image — those tiny changes saw a poignant shift.
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LaPook: Did Malia and Sasha go kicking and screaming, or did they contend “no problem†?
Obama: Oh, absolutely. Yes, kids will flog and scream. My kids are no different. If they could eat prohibited dogs and macaroni and cheese each day, they would consider they would be a happiest kids on a planet. But a beauty of children is that they adapt.
