ALEXANDRIA, Va. — First lady Michelle Obama framed her national campaign against childhood obesity in personal terms Thursday, relating that her own two daughters were starting to get off track before the family’s pediatrician gave her a wake-up call.
“In my eyes, I thought my children were perfect,” the first lady said. “I didn’t see the changes.”
But the family’s pediatrician, she said, kept a close eye on trends in African-American children and “cautioned me,” the first lady said at a YMCA here.
The first lady said that over the next few months she made some small changes that got Sasha and Malia back on track: No more weekday TV. Water bottles in the lunch boxes. Grapes at breakfast. Apples at lunch. Colorful vegetables on the dinner table. The Associated Press
