Yeah, this will go over real well with parents in Texas…
Via EAG News:
MCALLEN, Texas – First lady Michelle Obama’s effort to whip Americans into shape, through federal food restrictions and her Let’s Move! initiative, is now turning its focus to adults.
Since President Obama took office, his wife has focused on using federal bureaucrats to impose food regulations on schools in an effort to combat childhood obesity. It’s a two-pronged effort that involves the National School Lunch Program, as well as physical fitness components supposedly designed to get kids playing more, The Monitor reports.
The McAllen Independent School District in Texas has jumped all-in with the first lady, and was the only district in the nation to gain 100 percent participation from students in Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move! Program.
But now McAllen officials plan to turn their sights on parents, and plan to host a series of speakers in an attempt to convince then they should do more to trim down and get active.
“It’s one method to expand what we’re trying to do as far as working on obesity down here,” the district’s physical education coordinator Mario Reyna told the news site. “We know it’s all about the adults because they’re the role models.”
“We’re doing as much as we can at the schools,” he said. “We’ve got to focus on a lot of our adult populations in the community.”
The first lecture will feature life coach Carla Ferrer May 28 at the McAllen Public Library at 6 p.m. Ferrer watched her mother die of obesity before shedding 135 pounds about 18 years ago.
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