How did Michelle Obama achieve her goal?

Answer 1

Restaurants need to offer healthier choices on children's menus. The food and beverage industry should market nutritious foods, not junk foods, to kids. And families should eat dinner together as often as possible.

Schools need to make sure elementary students get recess, and the federal government needs to improve the nutritional quality of food commodities provided to schools.

These are among a federal task force's wide-ranging recommendations to reverse childhood obesity. It was released Tuesday by first lady Michelle Obama.

"For the first time, the nation will have goals, benchmarks and measureable outcomes that will help us tackle the childhood obesity epidemic one child, one family and one community at a time," she said.

Solve the problem in a generation

The goal of the plan is to try to solve childhood obesity in a generation, the report says. That means returning to a childhood obesity rate of 5% by 2030. Right now, about 32% of children and adolescents today - 25 million young people - are obese or overweight, government statistics show.

Those extra pounds put children at a greater risk of developing a host of debilitating and costly diseases, including type 2 Diabetes, high blood pressure and high cholesterol. And children today may lead shorter lives by two to five years than their parents because of obesity, a 2005 study found.

Government agencies are already working to get healthier foods in schools, expand physical activity in schools and provide mothers with better prenatal care, the first lady said.

To prepare the report, which was requested by President Obama, the task force reviewed research, consulted with experts, considered 2,500 comments from the public and consulted 12 federal agencies, including the Departments of Agriculture, Defense, Education and Health and Human Services.

Among the recommendations:

•Restaurants should consider their portion sizes and improve children's menus.

•The food and beverage industry should develop aggressive targets for increasing the proportion of advertisements for healthy foods and beverages. Within three years, the majority of food and beverage ads directed to children should promote healthy foods.

•Media and entertainment companies should limit licensing of their popular characters to healthy food and beverage products.

•Local governments should create incentives to attract supermarkets and grocery stores to underserved neighborhoods.

•The federal government should provide economic incentives to increase production of healthy foods such as fruits, vegetables and whole grains.

•Government, businesses and foundations should work to increase the number of safe parks and playgrounds, particularly in underserved and low-income communities.

•The federal government, working with local communities, should distribute information about the upcoming 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans through simple messages, such as: Drink water instead of soda or juice with added sugar; eat more fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and lean proteins; choose low-fat or fat-free dairy products; and, when possible, eat dinner together as a family.

Earning praise from experts

The recommendations are drawing applause from childhood obesity specialists. "It's very comprehensive with lots of detailed recommendations that could make a real dent in childhood obesity," says Margo Wootan, director of nutrition policy for the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a Washington-D.C.-based consumer group

Answer 2

Michelle Obama has had many goals in her life. By most objective accounts, she achieved them by working hard, avoiding bad company, and being very focused. For example, as a young African-American woman, being raised in a lower-middle class neighborhood, her main goal was to make her parents proud. They sacrificed a lot so that she and her brother could go to college and she did not want to disappoint them. She got very good grades at Princeton, and then was admitted to Harvard Law School, where she also did well.

As an adult, she wanted to have a successful career, and she was able to achieve that too. She was a lawyer and then a hospital administrator. She also raised funds for educational charities. Once she married Barack, her goal at first was to continue her professional career and also to be a good wife. When Barack decided to enter politics, a lot changed, and she had to adjust to being a political spouse; she sometimes was perceived as too outspoken, but she gradually learned how to give political speeches and became very successful at campaigning. Michelle is also the mother of two daughters, Sasha and Malia, and she and her husband Barack have made it their goal to give their kids as normal a life as possible, even if they are in the White House. These days, as First Lady, Michelle's goal is to set a positive example, as the first African-American First Lady, as well as being an advocate for the charities and causes she cares about.

Answer 3

She achieve by making a healthy program and by doing a great job as the first lady

Answer 4

she accomplished her goals by working hard and being suceesful in life. she also achieved her goals by studing and doing homework and other stuff. hope tis answers your question. Gday mate.

Answer 5

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