Tuesday, February 16, 2010
If Michelle Obama can lead us to bipartisan harmony with her Healthier America initiative ["Michelle Obama: 'Let's move' on childhood obesity," Style, Feb. 10], I hope she can lead our children to more healthful habits. I wonder whether she is being too timid, though, when she said that “this isn’t about inches or pounds.” Why not, in a fight against obesity? If “one in three children . . . is overweight or obese,” those kids need to shed pounds and inches.
And why is the President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports cutting the focus on push-ups and sit-ups as good things to do? Strenuous exercises such as these are great at helping you look and feel better about yourself while also helping you shed pounds and inches.
Since obesity drains $147 billion from our economy every year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, it is past time to get serious.
Charlie Garlow, Silver Spring
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