Statistics show that one in three American kids is fat or overweight. These numbers were part of the motivation last month for First Lady Michelle Obama’s “Let’s Move” campaign to fight childhood obesity.
During remarks on March 1, the First Lady said that Americans must “move to rally this country around a single, ambitious goal - and that is to solve the trouble of childhood obesity in a generation so that kids born today reach adulthood at a healthy weight.”
In announcing the initiative, Obama stated that a healthy lifestyle, including achieving and maintaining a healthy weight, doesn’t need major life alterations, but rather “small changes that add up.”
Under this equation - and based on the formula that one pound lost equals about 3,500 calories burned - by cutting down or burning off, say, an additional 100 calories each day, a person could lose a pound every 35 days - more than 10 pounds in a year.
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