Journal #6

Kendra Harms                                     Let’s Move                             October 13, 2014

Liebert, Mary.  “Let’s Move! Programs: Success Stories.”  Childhood Obesity.  8.1.  (2012): 79-81.  Print.

                        The title of this source is “Let’s Move! Programs: Success Stories.”  In this journal article Mary Liebert talks about successful things that have happened thus far in the “Let’s Move” movement.  HealthierUS School challenge is a key component of the “Let’s Move” initiative. In June 2011, 154 schools in the Dallas independent school District received HealthierUS School Challenge awards.  These awards were given in recognition of their innovative approaches for implementing exercise and healthier school lunches into daily routines at school. Each Dallas school that received one of the 154 gold awards given out were required to serve a different fruit and vegetable every day of the week and beans once a week.  They also could only serve 100% juice, offer whole-grain items, and limit the amount of fat and sodium in the products they offered to students. They also had to offer nutrition education and 150 minutes a week of physical activity. 
            Mary Liebert asserts that “Let’s Move” is helping make an impact in schools all over the place by explaining different awards that have been handed out over the last few years in recognition of making an impact in the “Let’s Move” campaign.  This article is similar to my last article, "The Let's Move Campaign Keeps Moving Forward” because it also discusses the success this campaign has had thus far.  These two sources propose that “Let’s Move” is making a difference.  However, in Neil Seemans article he argues “Let’s Move” is not successful and it could only be made successful by rewarding individuals financially for honest attempts to manage their weight loss and also rewarding primary care providers financially for creating individualized weight management plans. Robin Schepper from my second research article also argues 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. 
            This source has affected my thinking process because now I have two sources that argue Let’s Move is successful and two sources that argue it isn’t successful.  However, I still don’t feel like I have enough information to come to a concrete conclusion yet.  My question that I want to answer is whether or not Let’s Move is successful.  This article and my previous article “The Let’s Move Campaign Keeps Moving Forward” prove that the movement is having success.  Even with the success they are having it doesn’t mean that it is completely successful.  The other articles suggest that it is not successful because of certain reasons and explain how it could become successful.  After completing six sources of research right now I think that it is possible that it is successful in some ways and unsuccessful in other ways.  Since this paper is all about exploration I would still like to research more arguments before writing my final paper on the success of this paper.  My new idea for this paper is that I could talk about what parts of the “Let’s Move” campaign are successful and what parts aren’t and how they could become successful. 
            In light of this article and my critical thinking efforts, the new questions that have come to my mind are what else is successful about the “Let’s Move” campaign?  What else is unsuccessful?  Is it possible for this campaign to have areas of success, and areas where it is not successful?  Could this campaign not have a set success or un-success yet since it is so new?  What are things that could make it more successful?  Are there any sources out there that discuss how it is successful and unsuccessful?  I plan to answer these questions by finding two more articles that discuss the success or un-success of “Let’s Move.”  I am currently reconsidering that not only “Let’s Move” is successful, but also that it is unsuccessful.  This article has brought an important light of research to my mind- that this movement can be successful and unsuccessful at the same time for the exploratory paper.  For the argumentative paper I will need to come to a concrete conclusion on whether or not it is.  My next step in my research is to find two more argumentative sources that talk about the success of “Let’s Move” then began to write my paper.