Michelle Obama - White house hangout on healthy families with kelly ripa - 2013

hello everyone i'm kelly ripa cohost of line with kelly in micro i'd like to welcome you to a very special buyers i hang out with first lady michelle obama this is the latest in a series of google plus hang outs with the white house to discuss important issues facing america last month both vice president right in and president obama team to do a plastic answer questions from americans and today find honored to be chatting with the first lady about a very important issue improving the health and wellness of our families mrs obama welcome to google plus thank you kelly it's great to see that it's great to be hanging out with you and all the that the google followers i feel like i should have on my my shorts and be hangups and pillows or something but garden in the blue room found i'm delighted to be here well missus bombing you know i'm scared that's move initiative three years ago to insure that all our children brought health the and reach their full potential and joining us today to have a conversation about healthy families have some folks from around the country who are dealing with these issues everyday in their own lives they all submitted their stories on you tube and global class and we're excited to have and discuss their ideas and questions wikio uh... mrs obama let's meet them are you up for that sounds great great ok for stopped we have lexi cropped she's a mother from wyoming lex easy added member of parenting communities on google plus hello mister obama kelly it's a pleasure highlights are going to happen maxwell had quiche in shock hesione is in new york ny and works in the financial industry he's also an advocate for kids inspiring them to live healthier lives highnesses obama pleasure to meet you nike shipping that they have you now we have grad larry how father of three from north carolina brad works in the health care field and you regularly host health and fitness how half-time global flats when his obama glad to be here sided with the thanks for joining us next is dini milna and new york times bestselling author and the founder of the blog my grandbaby dot com she lives in atlanta with her husband and their two daughters and this is a balance of the seeing it's wonderful defeated looking for dirt track and lastly we had mrs nakedness is third-grade class joining us from growing community school in broder me the class has recently been learning all about health and fitness so they're very excited chat with you today and that's a very well be he i handle uses alabama i'm here haha cannot we've been talking about is the importance of of it's and physical activity hesione why don't you get us started okay thank you so much talent so i can show you picture myself i use the way two hundred pounds when i was twelve years old uh... second it was just a very different experience that when i was nineteen years old i was four hundred pounds one day i need to buy suit detailer puts his tape measure around my waist at sixty two inches demonstrated sixty inch tape measure so i made about that date to focus on diet and exercise i lost over two hundred pounds no surgeries no fat diets new trainers so i would love to know is what's your advice to the two hundred pound fusions of america the twelve year olds are struggling with their way and how can we empower them to make that first step well first of all kyshin i just want to congratulate you on such a huge accomplishment and i know it's been uh... challenging jerry but you look amazing and more importantly i know you feel amazing what i would say to yelled kids uh... you know and and and i would not just talk to the kids but i would talk to the people in their lives their parents their teachers me the first thing that we wanna make sure that we do is not make this an issue about looks uh... we should really talk to kids about uh... how they feel how they feel inside so that would not just dealing with this physical manifestations of of uh... of the challenge but really tapping into what's going on inside that head of the ab of that child and then we wanna talk about ways of uh... to make it fun uh... you know when i talked to my kids uh... and we were going through some of these similar challenges that obviously will my kids were little they work you know were faced with the the huge challenges you were faced with but i never talked about week in the household we just started making changes and we make changes in a way that didn um... eight-year aidid didn't of make him feel badly about themselves at the meeting make them feel in your ship over it because truly kids that age can't control what they eat so it's that mom you know i took it upon myself to make sure that we just surrounded them with foods that were healthy and that they could be whenever they wanted to you know you just have to you get the temptation out of the household wherever possible and then just try to make activity find i mean most kids just really wanna play and if you talk about exercise in terms of play and not you know making kids feel like they have to be a athlete arctic they have to be graded sport uh... but you get out and get 'em walking something simple um... you just start out with walking in you make them feel successful in very small ways so i think your overall we have to keep in courage in kids we have to make it fun we don't want to make it about how they look we wanna make about how they feel uh... and all of us in our in the deadlines of children who what the etc was around us we as adults have to make sure that we're taking ownership as well and we're doing everything that we can to make that journey i will be easy for them is here for them selection let's hear from maxine acts that was done that is great kyshin and congratulations on your personal success policy is like the note i left behind act of focus on improving test scores we have seen a d emphasis on health and physical education and so mrs obama in your mind why can schools due to maybe create ad good valid something that these kids both they perform well on tests but get the physical activity that they meet that's a great question and you we've been talking about this uh... all throughout the tour uh... secretary dump in our secretary of education whose uh... wonderful individual are who is uh... show deep concern about this issue talks about it in terms of a fitness in education being like a false choice that we've treated it is that you can do one or the other but you can't do both and what we know and when we know in our hearts as parents that both are important and research issues uh... proving that uh... to be true uh... because uh... uh... kids performance on test in attendance is directly related to their health uh... how they feel whether they're moving everyday you know whether they're starting out there days with a good balanced breakfast at all plays a role and how they performed in school so if we start out with that premise that physical fitness and good nutrition is key to academic success at the start there then the choices that we make throughout the day will uh... you know bear out our understanding of the need for that balance uh... one of the things that we announced on the tour was a new initiative called let's move schools anything an issue did that's designed to put physical activity back into the school day on a daily basis and we'll talk more about that over the course of our hangout but uh... this is one of the things that we're really trying to focus on with let's move this not just nutrition not just diet but also that other lady of the sins of the school which is giving our kids moving our kids need sixty minutes of activity every single day and the kids today are nowhere near coming close to that number most of our kids are spending an average of seven and a half hours a day in front of some kind of screen on and again we use their belts have to figure out how to strike that balance in we have to do it in our schools because that's where our kids are spending most of their day he knew also had kids in school combining away and i do i have two daughters one who got to private school where recesses a priority and so is your back and even get a chance to nap during the day tuesday can get re-energize where is my number dot it goes to a public school where recess isn't necessary out priority and she's lucky because there's some urban areas where at the space outside just doesn't exist and so giving the kids out of the classroom and happens to a playground is a bit of a challenge what candy administrators in the schools do to get their kids moving even with that restriction of space outside administrator school officials called leadership parents the community we have to get creative in those instances in their models of schools out there that are figuring out how to make that happen because dinning your absolutely bright there are so many communities where it's just not safe for kids to play outside uh... n obviously the safety of our kids is our first priority daily activity is just as critical as their overall safety some schools have done things slip out like uh... having what they call these brain buster moments where they just stand up in their classrooms and they went through routine that gets their hearts pumping and it's fun and they had music week actually participated in one of these little brain buster of into the school in clinton mississippi last week as part of the poor the p teacher had had bright doing like at the cats stand up right in their chairs and went to a fifteen minute routine that included uh... a moment a palm that when when he told the students to go into nama stay they all got quiet settled down they let their hearts break rates come down and they get that all of the span of fifteen minutes just standing right at the air but shares at that during the lunch hour so the point is is that we have to get creative in their schools all across this country that are figuring out ways regardless of up its resources or space uh... they're finding ways to to get kids moving in a fun creative way uh... again let's move active schools is uh... uh... let's most schools lets move active schools is our new initiative that's trying to get everyone to become a champion for getting physical fitness back in the schools on the night courage people to go to our website lets move schools to find out how they can make their school become one of our active schools we're going to get the whole entire public school system moving in this country at several i love that as a mom tell win my kids do that's cool uh... and imports and live in a good neighbor that you don't have to worry about my children safety but there are plenty of other places where it is a concern from notwithstanding bright in your own hometown just and want their soco uh... really promising student had gained content was killed doing something that kids all across the land should be able to do which is just so it's a park after school with her friends you know when we were a little we got redoubled agin hopscotch in scallions and jack and i just feel like they are a lot of communities here in america where that's not possible for kids like a mother doesn't comparable which have had to do them and just because it's not see how do those moms help their children go outside get back press a reading all those wonderful games that kids should be able to play in although one if i had to do that they should be a big deal when is that specter dangerous their uh... absolutely that well that's where we as a community have to come together for kids uh... near schools are important place to get our kids activity in because that's where they're spending most of their day but when i was growing up uh... are our church was that place com you know we did activities in the basement of our church and it seemed like the biggest basement on earth but looking back it was a it was a pretty small space and we would do plays in workshops and learn the flu the phone-in yes to the church was uh... a safe haven for us to growing up and we have churches all throughout communities that are acd in desperate need of safe havens for kids uh... and they could be safe havens for kids for physical activity as well so again we is the community the adult surrounding these kids we gotta get creative and i would encourage parents that if they also find themselves in a situation where they can't get outside and let's figure out what we can do indoors because it doesn't take the great outdoors to beat moving everyday you know one of the things that i do with my kids i turn on the radio and we will dance and work up a sweat forget thirty forty minutes they laugh at me they have a good time but at the same time were moving so we want to give them parents those kinda tips that you know india been reached every parent where they are because every circumstance is different but we have to be creative and we have to understand that daily movement isn't an option even in in the areas that are are not as safe as it is uh... we'd like them to be is just not an option we're speaking about children inside the classroom let's go inside the classroom right now and uh... brewer classroom and their children there helices out online easter candy it's not constantly dean you certainly can move into a political south anita's uni students first of all hello dot all of you guys can look at the meeting yes it's great delights you've got a healthy lunch there too but some ideas for getting moving at first of all and getting outside getting moving is about playing right that's all you want to do and what of great way to get active than to go outside on a snowy day and roll around in the selling uh... roll down some hills in p-labeled i have a snowball fight all of that is activity guides you don't have to be in a organized sport you just want to get outside and run and retired can laugh and following the cell uh... but they're also a whole range of great uh... winter sports if if the week that athletes there's hockey at ice skating i know my family we electricity we don't get the ski often because he got to go somewhere to ski but if you live in community where you have these activities there specially now it's third-graders take up a sport learned the state try to become the best skaters skier hockey player that you can be so that you can be ac active all year round that's what i tell my girl that's one of the reasons why we see because i want to have a sport that they can do outside when it gets cold but there are many many ways to get involved in in cold days right you guys have a newspaper winter sports that you'd like to do just shout it out c smoke snowboarding elo basketball say your program you know i can you look like they're move into an area where it looks like you guys and creepy hacker healthy kids there's such a well-behaved and classroom by never seen children in with the ability to say cell elsewhere is that a lot of air time the relation between manage that's gonna brad now for an out his question brad has a question for you mrs obama is ms obama on the google plus we have regular hangouts for their fitness and nutrition to me and when you members come on the community like two dash them a few questions about their fitness nutrition so minister of couple of those questions with you first what is your impreza obama's favorite workout or post workout snack and also do you ever workout together as a family great questions workout snacks we do a lot of protein shakes um... it because you know quick energy you digest them they absorbed in the body really quickly give you good energy before war and after the workout uh... but if we have time for food food com fruits are great not and apple we have apples all over the white house in every part of the white house including our residents of the apple is like our go to snack it's like the powerful uh... then love who must with uh... fresh vegetables whenever i can get them uh... you know so we're just like everybody else i mean anything that's or fruit or vegetable that gives us the energy that we need before after work out really does uh... dot it does the body could and week actually do workout at brock and i we work out every morning together uh... sometimes i get up to the g_m_ a little bit before him but we usually in there at some point together and we work at every single day the girls are now old enough for their involved in their own activities um... bay ask at bol dance tennis track so they're busy after school almost every day and almost every day during the weekend uh... and we tried it donated sports events whenever possible by the president was an assistant coach of sage's basketball team the pipers um... so we are very involved in our kids' lives um... physically because it just makes it more fun when the whole family can share in these things together miss nobama let's go back to brewer elementary and know that you had mentioned that nafta healthy lunch that you did see now before you let's uh... let's touch on that with the kids back in for a man jury good morning mrs obama good morning it's good to see you guys again what do you have there it's an honor to be you know how he is going to show you what's on the menu today helen's built on if you think any kiki phoenix and but they can one-page statement for milk needs indeed our question for you is what can we do to help the children she used eat everything that's doubles and not brother now are that's a very fair question you know one of the things that i like to do with my kids in kids that that i need you to give them the power of the information because here's the thing that is the fruits and vegetables are probably one of the most important parts of your lunch because they give you the energy that you need i mean food lunch time isn't just appl it's not a punishment it's if actually if that's what you need to keep your body moving and the vegetables in the fruits fill you up and give you the energy that you need to think and do well in your exams and for any of you kids that love sports you need those vegetables and and and fruits to give me the energy to be able to get to your game or finance recess to do the fun things that you need to do so i would just ask students to give every at every meal take abide or to of your fruits endure vegetables start their because the ad the more you do it the more you'll get used to it and you like the you'll you'll begin to like the flavors of them because it takes a long time if you don't need a lot of fruits and vegetables you you selected sugary taste that you get in the other foods i want every kid to commit tonight growing anything out first of all we don't want if there aren't any food because they're a lot of kids all over this country in all of the world who don't have a watch you know and that's what we have to remember their kids out there that would give anything to have that wonderful lunch that you have because they don't have a lunch at all so we have to think about them before we throw something out but you know the more information i think we can give our kids about why this stuff is important instead of just telling them to eat their fruits and vegetables if we help them understand what it does for their bodies and how it changes their performance in academics have been in sports it begins to make sense does that make sense enough stuff glad to hear that are that's got alexi naxx lexie well that look like they're really deadlines no selloutlive out west and i can't say ten a title one school that's usually a school in the lower income neighborhood and our schools are trying hard with the resources that they have to provide balanced meals for kids but neil actions continued to include the likes of nachos with cheese size and corn docs so my question for you missus o'connor is what do you think can be done to ensure kids get healthier even help their lunches at school well which we have to remember that the new uh... nutrition standards and wants lunches just went into effect and many schools are still making the transition and it's gonna take some time uh... if info out there is having challenges they should contact the u_s_d_a_ because they've got people on staff that are ready to work with schools because these changes and our part you know we're going from one way of doing things to a totally different paradigm and the u_s_d_a_ understands that schools are gonna need the help and support on for quite some time so as a parent if you have noticed that your school lunches are improving we encourage you first of all to work with the school as best you can't get back to that all possible said yes speak out to find other parents that care about this issue to find teachers who care about this issue work within the school uh... but also know that com these nutrition standards are becoming a requirement and that he didn't really every school will have to make these changes so you just have to you know keep pushing and encouraged to the school your school if you don't see it to reach out and get help and support but this is gonna be a community effort right now you know you can change policies but it's gonna take some time for the culture to shift and it may not happen overnight but it's gonna happen which is why these goals around childhood obesity are generational goals and we shouldn't get too upset if our kids don't automatically you know respond the way we want to i mean the third graders that we're talking about if they start these healthy habits now we're looking at what kind of kids they're going to be when they're headed to college tray uh... kids who were used to eating fruits and vegetables every day their whole added to about food will change by the time they get the college in they go off and start raising their families for those of the goals that were working forcibly shouldn't get too down about you know what's not working today because we were were always looking toward the future on this one uh... obama and sidetrack go ahead when regards to the guidelines and standards you were just talking about every year four billion dollars are spent on soft drinks on through the government sponsored attrition programs like this now program which is the supplemental nutrition assistance program as is the new and uh... food stamp program i their current some initiatives to purchase healthier foods but can we see stripped your nutritional regulations with these programs to encourage uh... raising help their families you know the focus that we've had good let's move is really bent on giving parents the information that they need to make the best choices for them com that's been our approach to let's move it will continue to be our our approach uh... i think every community you know has to determine what policies work best for them uh... we've got policymakers in washington that are going to be looking at these very issues and they'll be deciding on what's the best direction but in the meantime my goal is to make sure that the parents out there understanding the impact of the choices that they make information is really the key to power uh... the same thing issue with our kids they have to understand what food really means to them uh... if we want them to make those wholesale changes in their lives that will last them a lifetime uh... so our focus right now is making sure that people understand what's owed is due to your body and why fruits and vegetables are so important and give them the guidelines to help figure out what a healthy plate looks like which is why we launched my plate so that people haven't easier way of figuring out what is a healthy plate local act um... and in doing that across cultures with me plot so as well hot so our focus is going to continue to be to drive home the point we've got a better inform our families in our communities we've gotta make the healthy choice is the easiest choices for families uh... and and and then look for ways to sit continues to support them along the way this check ab back in with ki shanti shanti yes sure cynicism bombing when i was for her parents i've felt almost invisible in society almost as if i was a burden and that is the greatest country in the world we don't discriminate against anyone welcome people from all cultures all walks of life but you know being obese in this country you are stigmatized think about paying an extra fair for net received airline uh... how do we break down the cultural barriers and societal stigmas when fighting obesity aguila it goes back to that my answer to your first question i think we should be talking about these issues in terms of health and not in terms of physical um... how kids your people look physically uh... because people can't help how they look com nl but we we want every american to be healthy and i think kids can understand uh... that question and that the uh... that that that point of health you know what he did he give yourself the energy uni tear rebut that life uh... sift through to run when you wanna run um... you know to be able to move in previously um... we want to talk in those terms and particularly as we're dealing with our young girls i mean i have two young daughters we never talk about weight i'm making a point you know i don't want my i don't want our children i don't want our children to be weight obsessed i want them to be focused on what i like and what do i'd have to do in this body because everybody is different every person's body is different what do i have to do to be the healthiest that i can be and that means i've got to keep my dutch triples i've got to keep my fruits again ninety too much junk food if i can help it and i just have to move i don't have to be a jock i don't have to be an olympic gold medalist i'd just have to walk a lot more maybe ride my bike maybe get up and dance with my mom maybe walk up those stairs instead of running we need to buy it off these goals and focus on the health of individuals and not focus on weight or looks and and measuring people's worth in in that way it doesn't help us as a society and it definitely doesn't help the individuals who wish traveling with this issue so bomb i know and up and went fast a couple of personal questions i hope that's ok you're at a taking fragment as the first question yes i read that she's not playing the piano so much as a young lady did i you had to be told to stop practicing uh... so i want to know do you still play you know i will gavel every now and then but i'd again listen to my mother and i stopped practicing which is what i try to tell kids don't stop practicing i love the piano but i don't get to play it that much it's one of my hopes that you know whenever i'd settled down and i'd stop being first lady and i have a little more time on my hands that maybe one day out take lessons again because i certainly love music so thanks for asking how tightly alexi well my question is as not normal as light as the in the white house at the federal cuts let c l_ and the president did it create some sense of normalcy four your family and just in your home life we we tried it continue the routines in the habits and traditions that we have before we were here uh... yes something as simple as making sure we sit down for dinner together every night i talk about this all the time to meet it was actually something that we didn't didn't have the time to do before coming here but because both the president i basically live above the stories he says oftentimes he can structure his schedule so that were all here at the same time and their family meal but turns out to be the most important time update for all of us and i'm not interested and that's something that we encourage families to try to do more of its tough in this modern day fast paced walk world but when we talk about our kids' health an obesity of studies do show that increase family dinners do you have an effect because that's the time you know what your kids your eating you know and you can talk about it and and non-judgmental way on you can talk about the painting the need a little more slowly because you're not just in toppling down your food in front of the television you're sharing your sort of letting go of all that emotion from the day uh... so that makes us feel normal because we walk up you know you walk into the doors of the residence and it's just home it's no longer the white house and that's important for us and it's important for every family in america quiche and you have a question for the first lady shira cynicism bomb i saw you present the award for out for best picture of this year at the oscars king tells what that was like it was absolutely nerve-wracking because it was alive and nobody knew we were doing it although we were right here in the white house and we were already dressed for dinner with the governors i was a little bit more nervous that i thought i'd be i thought i'd drop envelope i thought i'd get the name wrong and i just you know it's just that uh... and have been very awesome moment for a anyone who grew up like most americans do watching movies watching the pastors and here i am presenting the award for best picture it was pretty as a pretty intimidating by i got through it fifty they need that idea okay so i know that lets move is about families and how to get your kids actin but we have a very important weekend special member of our family teaches that you do howard dot teddy and he's is somewhere around here thirty youth snapping like the lazy dog obedience got hurt wondering how you go about getting while involved in your family you can move being and and outdoor time he said he doesn't because in the fact the c_ dot and happened well than barack david bowie not did area active he always students and party actually get out every day and the girls have to walk on which is part of the acted and that's part of their ritual they have to go outside we usually have to say and don't come right back stay outside give them a good block throw the ball run with them as it gets warmer and it starts to get lighter outside we all can i go out and do that walk together so we can make sure that though is running and you know so again dogs are not dot net no different you wanna make sure that they're leading a balanced diet in that they're not an active dog make sure that they are that their food is reflective of um... inactive dog and then get out there for that ball and get them running so it we've got to worry about every member of our family me gap anything awake again worked with a rebel clean period for the treat favorite history that if there it's very hard greatly if the black book up from the that will not make that project okay nobama let's go to our last question are red brewer elementary school and i'm still down and favorite games movies music news that they are here so when is your favorite games from well it's obviously the dead when you guys go daddy but what is the roof is a good one yet there we go we've got the brewers things billable betty teachers out of bed our participants if you can't count calif everybody bill about the lessons that we are not yet friend and i would have been all over the land where greta i don't think brad betting at the amount of nl caa card that it it's not like like a comment not offended that you have plans that bridge elaine has a heart attack however you are is the conversation about working together to raise healthier families will continue online a forest use hash tag healthy living on google plastic share your thoughts and ideas uh... thanks to everyone angered by and hope to see you all again soon