Let's move

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Let's move! is the name of an initiative against childhood obesity in the United States that was initiated by First Lady Michelle Obama in February 2010.

Let's move! has set itself the goal of solving the problem of child obesity within one generation and pushing it back to 5% by 2030, which corresponds to the proportion in 1970. In support of this, President Obama set up the first task force on this subject. Parents, politicians, doctors, organizations and associations as well as companies are called on. The main objective is, in essence: "For a healthy and happy future for our children!" In the meantime, Let's Move! evolved from a campaign to a nationwide movement.

obesity

From 2007 to 2008, 31.7% of children ages two to nineteen were overweight or obese in the United States . Obesity can lead to various diseases that require expensive treatments. In the United States, nearly 112,000 people die each year as a result of obesity, 84,000 of them under the age of 70.

The White House Task Force on Childhood Obesity

The White House Task Force on Childhood Obesity developed an interagency plan to develop coordinated strategies, identify key issues, and draft a plan of action. The action strategy was developed with the cooperation of the Ministry of Agriculture, Defense, Education, Health, Interior, Justice and Transport, as well as the Ministry of Housing and Urban Planning, the Environmental Protection Office, the Federal Commission for Communication, the Federal Trade Commission of the USA, and Developed by the Corporation for National and Community Service . The White House Task Force is working closely with First Lady Michelle Obama to implement her proposals .

Problem areas and possible solutions

The White House Task Force on Childhood Obesity examined the four main areas of the problem, which were discussed in the Let's Move! Campaign thematized: Assistance for parents and carers , healthy eating in schools , access to healthy affordable food , and increasing sporting activities , and supplemented them with early childhood .

Assistance for parents and caregivers

Let's move! provides five-step plans for parents, schools, mayors and clerks, community leaders, cooks, children, and health workers.

The plan for parents includes, for example, a description of the problem and suggestions for implementation for the following stages:

  1. Healthy snacks
  2. Physical activity as part of the family routine
  3. Planning healthy meals
  4. Replacement of television time with physical activity
  5. Organization of a health team at the school.

But in order not to allow the new generation of growing children to become overweight in the first place, Let's Move! the Let's Move! Child Care started, through which caregivers are provided with a very simple checklist, so that the basis for a healthy life can be laid without great effort. A five-step plan is also provided here, they can be easily integrated into everyday life without causing great effort or expense:

  1. One to two hours of exercise daily for children.
  2. Limitation of television time for all children, complete television ban for children under two years of age.
  3. Serving one type of fruit or vegetable with every meal and snack.
  4. Only serving water, low-fat milk, or 100% fruit juice without artificial additives as drinks.
  5. Support for mothers who want to breastfeed their children and the opportunity to bring their milk to the care facilities.

According to the US Department of Defense, this action plan will make all of its own childcare facilities with Let's Move! Child Care reaches out to over 200,000 children daily. Head Start encourages you to work towards the goals of Let's Move! To orientate child care , the General Services Administration also registered its care facilities with 10,000 children. Mayors whose cities in Let's Move! Cities Towns & Counties are registered, the institutions in their cities join the program. Private childcare provider Bright Horizons announced 600 of its facilities for Let's Move! Child Care at. More than 10,000 childcare facilities have now joined.

The Presidential Active Lifestyle Award (“Award by the President for an active lifestyle”) was established, for which a certain period of regular physical activity is a prerequisite for receiving a PALA . At PALA + there are additional nutritional goals that can be selected from a number of options and adapted to a vegetarian or vegan lifestyle or other diets. By October 2011, 1.7 million PALAs had already been issued.

Healthy eating in schools

The White House Task Force on Childhood Obesity recommends educating students about the importance of classifications such as “low fat” and involving students in making decisions about school meals. While most school kitchens are subject to government standards, further efforts should be directed towards bringing the contents of the snack vending machines up to a healthy standard. To this end, Let's Move! launched the Chefs Move to School program , in which professional chefs support schools in putting together the menus and ingredients. The goal is for every school in the United States to have a chef as a partner and advisor.

The Let's Move! Museums and Gardens aims to find ways to bring exercise and healthy eating closer to children. The aim is to provide information about meals in the school canteens. The Let's Move! Healthy Schools is working to replace deep fryers with steamers and ovens, serve more fruits, vegetables and whole grains, and replace the candy in snack machines with healthy alternatives.

Access to healthy affordable food

Further efforts are aimed at the "greening" of so-called food deserts , ie residential areas with an inadequate supply of healthy food, of which 23.5 million often low-income Americans, including 6.5 million children, are affected. Access to healthy food is to be simplified or made possible, for example by supporting grocery stores or farmers' markets to establish themselves in these districts Vegetables are to be grown in community gardens and backyards. To this end, new foods should be developed that are both attractive to buyers and healthy. The establishment of new shops is also intended to create new jobs, which is another important step in the redesign and development of their neighborhoods, especially for the poorer areas.

Healthy food is to be made cheaper and - as some states have already implemented - energy-rich, nutrient-poor foods such as sweets and soft drinks are to be taxed more heavily. In some cases, healthy food, especially fruit and vegetables, is subsidized. Federal nutrition assistance programs help poor families have access to adequately nutritious meals.

An organization was set up whose primary mission is to work with the private sector to solve the problem of child obesity in America, the Partnership for a Healthier America . Companies that have committed to working with the PHA are reviewed each year by the PHA and the results of the promised progress are publicly reported. For example, Walmart has pledged to build or expand 275-300 stores nationwide by 2016, targeting 800,000 people in regions with poor access to grocery stores. In addition, this chain committed itself to selling products with lower sugar, salt and fat content, and to lowering the prices for healthy products such as fresh fruit and vegetables. Walgreens plans to expand at least 1,000 stores nationwide by 2016, reaching 4,785,000 people in food deserts . A total of around 9.6 million people in these areas are to be provided with healthy, affordable food by 2016. For its part, the government's Healthy Food Financing Initiative is providing hundreds of millions of dollars to fund projects that improve access to healthy food in food deserts . Hundreds of millions of dollars more are to be raised through corporations and nonprofits. Many restaurants are also redesigning their children's menus so that they become healthier and more balanced.

By 2013, sponsors of around 550 hospitals and health centers of the Hospital Healthy Food Initiative had joined the PHA, pledging to serve healthier food with less nutritional energy and more fresh fruit and vegetables.

Increasing physical activity

The Let's Move! Active Schools against the reduction of sport in schools supports sporting activities. With the help of Let's Move! Active Schools show the possibilities of offering students various sports activities before class, between classes, and after class throughout the day. With the help of sponsors like Nike , financial and technical support is also made possible to finance and train sports equipment, locations and instructors. To help communities actively address the problems that lead to child obesity, Let's Move! the Let's Move! Cities, Towns & Counties and Let's Move! Faith & Communities into life. The latter aims in particular to reach people through their places of faith. Several denominations take part in this initiative. Overall, the members of Let's Move! Faith & Communities sponsored millions of healthy meals for children in need through early 2012 and together ran more than 4.5 million kilometers to get active. In some communities, the various approaches have already reduced child obesity by 30% in just three years. These communities are primarily in Mississippi , the most successful state to date with the highest obesity rate in the United States.

support

In addition to various Let's Move partners, other companies, stars and associations support the movement as sponsors.

See also

literature

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  • Brown, Alyssa: Michelle Obama Maintains Positive Image . Gallup Web site, March 3, 2014. Retrieved July 15, 2014.
  • Jessica Doolen, Patricia T. Alpert, and Sally K. Miller: Parental disconnect between perceived and actual weight status of children: a metasynthesis of the current research. In: Journal of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners. Vol. 21, No. 3, March 2009, pp. 160-166. ( PDF file online ).
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  • Laura Laughlin: Who's Minding the Kids? Child Care Arrangements: Spring 2011. In: US Census Bureau: Survey of Program Participation: Child Care. 2013, ( PDF file ).
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  • Kohta Suzuki, Daisuke Ando, ​​Miri Sato, Taichiro Tanaka, Naoki Kondo, Zentaro Yamagata: The Association between Maternal Smoking during Pregnancy and Childhood Obesity Persists to the Age of 9-10 Years. In: Journal of Epidemiology. Vol. 19, No. 3, 2009, pp. 136-142, PMC 3924138 (free full text).
  • Mark S. Tremblay, J. Wyatt Inman, and J. Douglas Willms: The Relationship Between Physical Activity, Self-Esteem, and Academic Achievement in 12-Year-Old Children. In: Pediatric Exercise Science. Vol. 12, No. 3, August 2010. pp. 312-123 ( PDF file online ).
  • Sarah Treuhaft, Allison Karpyn: The Grocery Gap: Who Has Access to Healthy Food and Why It Matters. In: The Food Trust: PolicyLink. 2010, pp. 1–39. ( PDF file online ).
  • Stewart G. Trost: Active Education: Physical Education, Physical Activity and Academic Performance. In: Active Living Research. 2007 ( PDF file online ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b c Letsmove: Lets Move! Launch Anniversary Speech To Parents . In: YouTube , 2011. Retrieved July 6, 2014.
  2. a b Learn the facts ( memento of the original from April 10, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Let's Move! Website. Retrieved July 2, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.letsmove.gov
  3. a b c d Letsmove: First Lady Michelle Obama Speaks on the Second Anniversary of Lets Move! ( Memento from February 19, 2012 in the Internet Archive ). In: YouTube , 2012. Retrieved July 15, 2014.
  4. ^ Ogden: Prevalence of High Body Mass Index in US Children and Adolescents, 2007-2008. 2010, p. 245.
  5. ^ Flegal: Excess Deaths Associated With Underweight, Overweight, and Obesity. 2005, p. 1864.
  6. White House Task Force on Childhood Obesity ( Memento of the original from January 16, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Let's Move! Website. Retrieved July 2, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.letsmove.gov
  7. ^ Solving the Problem of Childhood Obesity Within a Generation: White House Task Force on Childhood Obesity: Report to the President. 2010, p. 5.
  8. The full May 2010 Task Force report can be found on the Let's Move! downloaded. All figures, statistics and measures relate to the United States.
  9. ^ Solving the Problem of Childhood Obesity Within a Generation: White House Task Force on Childhood Obesity: Report to the President. 2010, p. 1.
  10. Take Action ( Memento of the original from June 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Let's Move! Website. Retrieved July 15, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.letsmove.gov
  11. Parents Take Action ( Memento of the original from February 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Let's Move! Website (PDF). Retrieved July 15, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.letsmove.gov
  12. a b Letsmove: First Lady Michelle Obama Unveils Lets Move! Child Care . In: YouTube , 2011. Retrieved July 12, 2014.
  13. a b Letsmove: First Lady Michelle Obama Speaks at a Lets Move! Active Schools Event . In: YouTube , 2013. Retrieved July 18, 2014.
  14. Presidential Active Lifestyle Award (PALA +) ( Memento of the original from July 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . The President's Challenge website. Retrieved July 12, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.presidentschallenge.org
  15. a b Letsmove: Ask the First Lady: Michelle Obama On How You Can Get Involved . In: YouTube , 2011. Retrieved July 12, 2014.
  16. ^ Solving the Problem of Childhood Obesity Within a Generation: White House Task Force on Childhood Obesity: Report to the President. 2010, p. 39 ff.
  17. Letsmove: First Lady Michelle Obama Talks About the First Year of Let's Move! . In: YouTube , 2011. Retrieved July 6, 2014.
  18. Letsmove: Rachael Ray and Marcus Samuelsson at the White House . In: YouTube , 2012. Retrieved July 15, 2014.
  19. Letsmove: Let's Move! Museums and Gardens . In: YouTube , 2011. Retrieved July 12, 2014.
  20. a b Letsmove: Remarks on Healthy School Programs . In: YouTube , 2013. Retrieved July 18, 2014.
  21. a b c d Letsmove: Bringing Healthy, Affordable Food to Underserved Communities . In: YouTube , 2011. Retrieved July 12, 2014.
  22. ^ A b Partnership for a Healthier America: Leading Grocery Retailers Commit to Fight Childhood Obesity by Increasing Access to Healthy, Affordable Food for 10 Million Americans . In: PR Newswire , July 20, 2011. Retrieved July 12, 2014.
  23. Treuhaft: The Grocery Gap: Who Has Access to Healthy Food and Why It Matters. 2010, p. 21.
  24. ^ Solving the Problem of Childhood Obesity Within a Generation: White House Task Force on Childhood Obesity: Report to the President. 2010, p. 59 f.
  25. ^ Solving the Problem of Childhood Obesity Within a Generation: White House Task Force on Childhood Obesity: Report to the President. 2010, p. 57 f.
  26. ^ Solving the Problem of Childhood Obesity Within a Generation: White House Task Force on Childhood Obesity: Report to the President. 2010, p. 61.
  27. ^ CED Data Healthy Food Financing Initiative . Office of Community Service website. Retrieved July 12, 2014.
  28. About FreshWorks . FreshWorks website. Retrieved July 12, 2014.
  29. Partnership for a Healthier America: 2013 Annual Progress Report: Expanding Our Reach . Partnership for a Healthier America website. Retrieved July 18, 2014.
  30. Letsmove: Announcing Let's Move Active Schools . In: YouTube , 2013. Retrieved July 18, 2014.
  31. Letsmove: Let's Move! Cook-off cafeteria . In: YouTube , 2013. Retrieved July 18, 2014.