{"id":84897,"date":"2025-07-23T03:33:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T03:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/84897\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T03:33:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T03:33:11","slug":"michelle-obama-on-why-shes-not-letting-up-about-nutrition-for-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/84897\/","title":{"rendered":"Michelle Obama on why she’s ‘not letting up’ about nutrition for kids"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Obamas douse rumors of divorce<\/p>\n

Michelle Obama welcomed her husband, former President Barack Obama on her podcast to talk about raising children and their marriage.<\/p>\n

Michelle Obama<\/a> isn’t giving up on her yearslong goals when it comes to kids’ health.<\/p>\n

Over 15 years since she first championed<\/a> new nutrition standards for student lunches, the former first lady said that she’s not “letting up any time soon” on pushing for healthier habits.<\/p>\n

In a Parents Magazine interview published July 22<\/a>, Obama, 61, said that “we’ve simply got to make it easier for families to raise healthier kids. We need to make the healthy option the easy option.”<\/p>\n

“We\u2019ve got to make it easy for parents to afford \u2212 and cook with \u2212 fresh ingredients,” Obama continued. “We\u2019ve got to make it easy for kids to get some exercise during the school day. We\u2019ve got to make it easy for everybody to hydrate themselves without loading up on sugar.”<\/p>\n

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Obama \u2212who said that “children\u2019s health is about so much more than our kids” \u2212 told Parents that “what’s available in our stores, what\u2019s on the menu in schools, whether or not our kids can play safely at the playground, it all ladders up to the wellbeing of our families and communities.”<\/p>\n

“It’s a challenge I’ve tackled from a variety of ways for more than a decade and a half. And I’m not letting up any time soon,” she added.<\/p>\n

Obama got candid for the interview as Parents honors her with its\u00a0Next Gen Awards, which applauds the work of 40 “changemakers” that have “made life better for kids and families this year.”<\/p>\n

When did Michelle Obama start advocating for school lunch changes?<\/p>\n

Obama has advocated for healthier nutrition for children since the first term of her husband and former President Barack Obama<\/a>, who took office in 2009.<\/p>\n

He signed the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act into law in 2010<\/a> and Michelle Obama supported the idea to improve the nutrition<\/a>\u00a0of school lunches and farm-to-school programs. During her husband’s second term in 2014, she sparred with some congressional Republicans, who believed the school lunch nutrition issue was local versus federal<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Michelle Obama discusses parenting daughters Malia and Sasha in the White House<\/p>\n

In the Parents interview, Michelle Obama, mom to Malia Ann<\/a>, 27, and 24-year-old Sasha Obama<\/a>, also got candid about parenting, telling the outlet that she and former President Obama<\/a>, 63, “did everything we could to give our girls as normal of a life as possible” while they were growing up.<\/p>\n

“When we were at the White House, we made sure they were doing things like making their beds every morning and as they got older, getting summer jobs,” she added.<\/p>\n

Michelle Obama reveals daughter Malia <\/strong>Obama’s name change<\/a><\/p>\n

The “IMO” podcast cohost<\/a> said that her daughters’ lives “slowly began to inch a little closer toward normalcy,” but their “extraordinary” circumstances have “forced them to learn critical skills like discipline, flexibility, and determination to go after what they really wanted.”<\/p>\n

Now, Malia Ann is pursuing a film career in Hollywood and recently helmed a 2023 short film “The Heart”<\/a> which she wrote and directed. The Obamas celebrated the birthday of their youngest daughter<\/a> Sasha, a University of Southern California grad, last month.<\/p>\n

Contributing: David Jackson, Christine Rushton<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Obamas douse rumors of divorce Michelle Obama welcomed her husband, former President Barack Obama on her podcast to…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":84898,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[647,931,648,29171,11744,27385,185,665,9447,171,17174,25982,246,990,210,57470,6330,2252,4003,425,666,993,6930,57469,57471,50,940,1182,12357,450,1457,10669,80,1451,7047,1054,646,67,132,68,3149],"class_list":{"0":"post-84897","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nutrition","8":"tag-affiliate","9":"tag-and","10":"tag-arts","11":"tag-barack","12":"tag-barack-obama","13":"tag-branch","14":"tag-celebrities","15":"tag-celebrities-u0026-entertainment-news","16":"tag-eating","17":"tag-entertainment","18":"tag-executive","19":"tag-executive-branch","20":"tag-family","21":"tag-food","22":"tag-health","23":"tag-healthy","24":"tag-healthy-eating","25":"tag-life","26":"tag-life-now","27":"tag-local","28":"tag-local-affiliate-arts-u0026-entertainment","29":"tag-local-affiliate-food","30":"tag-local-affiliate-health-and-wellness","31":"tag-michelle","32":"tag-michelle-obama","33":"tag-news","34":"tag-now","35":"tag-nutrition","36":"tag-obama","37":"tag-overall","38":"tag-overall-positive","39":"tag-party","40":"tag-politics","41":"tag-positive","42":"tag-republican","43":"tag-republican-party","44":"tag-u0026","45":"tag-united-states","46":"tag-unitedstates","47":"tag-us","48":"tag-wellness"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}