Kendra Harms Let’s Move October 7, 2014
This is a book about Michelle Obama’s “Let’s Move” campaign. The title of it is, “Let’s Move Faith and
Communities.” This book talks about how
you can contribute to “Let’s Move Faith and Communities Act” by helping
completing one or more of the following things: walk a total of three million miles, complete 500,000 Presidential Active Lifestyle Awards (PALAs) or
establish new exercise programs, host
10,000 community gardens, farmers markets, or other fresh food access
points, or host 1,000 new Summer
Food Service Program sites. This book
also talks about five things you can do to get your organization moving and
helping with this campaign. The first
thing you can do is grow a garden. The
second thing you can do is take the president’s challenge by helping children
be physically active in your community for five days a week for six weeks. The next thing you can do is make community
meals healthier. The fourth thing you
can do is partner with a school to
provide a Summer Food Service Program afterschool to ensure that children have
access to healthy food when school is not in session. Finally, you can encourage people in your
community to make small healthy food changes in their meals daily.
In the article “Let’s move! Says
Michelle Obama” it was said that her
campaign would consist of more physical activity for children, better food
labeling and healthier foods in schools.
However, in this book they discuss how communities play a big part in
this campaign. This book is also
different from the article because they discuss a lot of specific aspects of
the campaign instead of just overviews of certain points. My first article said the campaign would use nutrition information and the next generation food
pyramid to set guidelines for meals.
This book talks about in detail how you can do each of these things. However,
Neil Seeman argued in my third article that
to change eating behaviors we need to reward individuals financially for honest
attempts to manage their weight loss and also reward primary care providers
financially for creating individualized weight management plans which doesn’t
match up with this book. Robin Schepper from
my second research article argued that there are four barriers that make “Let’s
Move” unsuccessful. These four barriers are inspiration, access, programming
and infrastructure. Neil Seeman and
Robin Schepper both agree that the “Let’s Move” campaign isn’t working by only
using these techniques that this book discusses.
This article has affected by
thinking process because until now I didn’t know the detailed plan of “Let’s
Move.” After finding out all of the ways
Michelle Obama provides to cure childhood obesity it has changed my mind again
on whether or not it is possible. She
gave a lot of tips that I really think could make a difference in curing this
epidemic. She explained how each of her
categories would make a difference. This
book really makes me think that curing obesity with this movement could work if
everyone would participate! It has also
affected my thinking process because now I have two articles that don’t think
“Let’s Move” is affective. However, I
have a book that explains in detail how it could cure childhood obesity. Then I also have an article that explains the
movement and how it works. Since I still
have more sources that say it doesn’t work I’m not sure what type of sources I
should look for next. I think this book
proves that it could be possible and I should look for statistics that show it’s
successful or unsuccessful. This article
has also brought another area of research to my mind. I would like to find how she came up with
these ideas to cure childhood obesity. I
want to find a book that list how successful each part of the “Let’s Move”
movement is. I would also like to find
an article that argues “Let’s Move” is successful and why.
There are many new questions that
have come to my mind after reading this book.
Are there any articles that argue “Let’s Move” is successful? How is it successful? Is it successful in all
parts? Is there anything they could do
to make it a complete success? Are there
any suggestions people have to make the “Let’s Move” campaign better? The main idea that I am reconsidering once
again is whether or not “Let’s Move” is successful. If it can be or is, what are the statistics
that have changed in childhood obesity? This
book brings and important light of research to my mind. I really want to find statistics or articles
about how “Let’s Move” is already making a difference or statistics on how it
is not making a difference. I will go
about finding answers by doing research on statistics about the “Let’s Move”
campaign.
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