First Lady Michelle Obama: An Inspirational Role Mode

First Lady Michelle Obama:  An Inspirational Role Model

Brava! Brava!

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Posted by Kelly Miterko, Deputy Associate Director

Let’s Move! on March 03, 2015

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This year marks the fifth anniversary of Let’s Move!, and we’re celebrating the progress of the last five years, challenging ourselves and everyone to do even more, and committing to championing kids’ health for the next five years and beyond.

As part of the anniversary, the First Lady is challenging everyone to #GimmeFive things they are doing to eat better, be more active, and lead a healthier life. We have already seen people from across the country join in – from eating five fruits and vegetables to doing five pushups or lunges to sharing five healthy recipes.

Check out some of the folks who have joined in the challenge below or on the Let’s Move! Storify.

Now it’s your turn to #GimmeFive! Share what you’re doing to lead a healthier life on Twitter, Instagram, Vine, Facebook, or Tumblr using #GimmeFive and then be sure to pass on the challenge to someone else!

You’ll be motivated to jump up and start dancing in the videos below.  One is from the Ellen DeGeneres show on March 3, 2015 and the second one is at the White House Easter Egg Roll on April 6, 2015.

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The children at the Easter Egg Roll performance are clearly having fun.  Watch the little girl in pink.

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Ellen and Michelle Break it Down – 6.5 min. Video

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​First Lady Michelle Obama on Ellen Degeneres Show with So You Think 

You Can Dance_March 13, 2015

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Michelle Obama Dancing To “Uptown Funk” At White House Easter Egg Roll – 4 min. Video

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First Lady Michelle Obama at the White House Easter Egg Roll with So You Think You Can Dance All-Stars dancing to “Uptown Funk”_April 6, 2015​

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Excerpts from:

The Washington Post

May 5, 2015

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Five years after she launched Let’s Move, Michelle Obama’s willingness “to make a complete fool of myself” [Michelle’s words] is the most visible part of her campaign to end childhood obesity. She’ll dance with a turnip, or Big Bird, or Jimmy Fallon.

Behind the scenes, however, she has cultivated partnerships with big business to cut salt, sugar and fat from food. This network of corporate relationships is unlike that of any previous first lady and has helped her sidestep a Republican Congress resistant to the administration’s public health policies.

The corporate allies she has sought may in some cases share her views, or, at least, see gains for themselves in their public association with her healthful-eating mission.

Her tactics are controversial — to what extent should a first lady lend her status and imprimatur to commercial enterprises? — but also strategic. She and her aides hope they will yield lasting results.

Congress has some sway over how Americans eat. But the nation’s food purveyors, including Wal-Mart, the biggest of them all with $206 billion last year in food sales —and one of Obama’s key partners — almost certainly have more influence and will respond more nimbly to consumer demand.

Like the president, Michelle Obama has less than two years to secure the gains she has made and her legacy as a first lady who accomplished work more substantive than driving fashion choices and YouTube traffic. Obesity rates for children between the ages of 2 and 5 have decreased between according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and some states recently have reported making progress against obesity in disadvantaged children.

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First Lady Michelle Obama joins students for the 7​th Spring Garden

planting in the White House Kitchen Garden, April 15, 2015

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10 Garden Ideas to steal from Michelle Obama – Article & Photos

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Gimme Five!

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Easter & Passover have the “Tree of Life” in Common

It’s Palm Sunday!

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Easter is Sunday, April 5th and Passover is Friday, April 3rd – Saturday, April 11th.  I was doing some research on the Passover Seder at the White House awhile ago and was surprised that Easter and Passover both served coconut desserts as cakes or macaroons.

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In mentioning this to Cherrie Amour a friend of mine with roots from the Caribbean, coconuts had a wide variety of uses.

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During poetry month; Cherrie will be in New York April 8th and Detroit April 11th(Detroit Public Library – Elmwood Park Branch) reading her poetry at these “Free”events  Click on link for more details.

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Cherrie Amour event details

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Tree of Life

The coconut palm is grown throughout the tropics for decoration, as well as for its many culinary and nonculinary uses; virtually every part of the coconut palm can be used by humans in some manner and has significant economic value.Coconuts’ versatility is sometimes noted in its naming. In Sanskrit, it is kalpa vriksha (“the tree which provides all the necessities of life”). In the Malay language, it is pokok seribu guna (“the tree of a thousand uses”). In the Philippines, the coconut is commonly called the “tree of life”.

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10 Evidence Based Health Benefits of Coconut Oil –Article

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​Tree of Life

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How to Eat More Coconut Oil – Article

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​Coffee with Coconut

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Coconut Buttermilk Pound Cake Recipe- 4 min. Video

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Buttermilk pound cake with toasted coconut​

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​First Lady Michelle Obama lights a candle for 

Passover Seder while everyone reads the narrative 

of Haggadah at the White House_March 25, 2013

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The Seder is a ritual performed by a community or by multiple generations of a family, involving a retelling of the story of the liberation of the Israelites fromslavery in ancient Egypt.

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The Haggadah contains the narrative of the Israelite exodus from Egypt, special blessings and rituals, commentaries from the Talmud, and special Passover songs.

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​J.K. Rowling reading Harry Potter 

White House Easter Egg Roll_Apr. 2013

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“If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”   ~J. K. Rowling

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A Gift for Grade School Kids: Children’s Activity Book (PDF) – Easter Egg Roll – “Be Healthy, Be Active, Be You!”

Hello Everyone:

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For those of you with Grade School Children or Grandchildren; they will love this brief video of BO on the hunt for Easter Eggs and also the brief Let’s Move poster contest which they may want to draw a poster for even though the contest deadline has expired.

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Follow the youngest member of the Obama family in his search for official 2013 White House Easter Eggs on the South Lawn. Continue your hunt at:  www.WhiteHouse.Gov/EasterEggRoll

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BO on the Hunt for Easter Eggs – 50 sec. Video

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BO on the Hunt for Easter Eggs

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Let’s be like the Let’s Move Easter Bunny logo. Learn more about Let’s Move

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For the Let’s Move “Hopping” Bunny Logo (see attached photo) to download.

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Be Healthy, Be Active, Be You!

The White House invites all elementary and middle school students to submit poster designs for the 2013 Easter Egg Roll. This year’s theme, “Be Healthy, Be Active, Be You!” promotes health and wellness following the First Lady’s Let’s Move! initiative, a national campaign now in its fourth year that aims to combat childhood obesity. Learn more about Let’s Move

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The First Lady will select the winning design, which will be used as part of the White House 2013 Easter Egg Roll program.  Please Note:  This deadline has expired for submission which was March 5th, 2013.

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2013 Easter Egg Poster Contest – 50 sec. Video

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 Learn more about Let’s Move

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Activity Book for Kids (Attached – PDF file)

The White House has released a printable 2013 Easter Egg Roll activity book for kids (and adults who still love their crayons).  It includes coloring pages and an egg-themed word search.  First Dog Bo romps with the Easter Bunny amid a cornucopia of vegetables in one of the colorable illustrations.  Download the book [PDF].

President Obama and First Lady Obama will welcome more than 30,000 guests to the South Lawn on Monday, April 1, for the 135th anniversary Roll, which has the Let’s Move! theme ‘Be Healthy, Be Active, be You!’

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Be Healthy, Be Active, Be You!

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President Obama reading ‘Where the Wild Things Are’

Hello Everyone::

If you don’t know what the children’s book “Where the Wild Things Are” is about; just “click on” the seven expressive photos of President Obama accompanied by First Lady Michelle Obama reading this acclaimed children’s book at the White House Easter Egg Roll April 9, 2012 by author Maurice Sendak who passed away last month.  For the book’s plot and history Where the Wild Things Are –(Book & History)

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President Obama “Where the Wild Things Are” – Photo Gallery 

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Main character Max and Wild Things

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LaVern Homan, founder, mix media artist Shivarts agrees with the following quote on the power and magic of books.  LaVern is creating a series of one-of-a-kind journal books due out this Fall.

“Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.”   ~Maya Angelou

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Make Mischief!!

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