[WATCH]: Michelle Obama Urges Healthy Diet and Exercise: Healthy Kids Fair (2009)

thefilmarchive.org October 21, 2009 The Childhood Obesity Task Force is a United States Government task force charged with reducing childhood obesity in the United States. It was founded on February 9, 2010 by the Obama Administration through a Presidential Memorandum, announcing the establishment of a Task Force on Childhood Obesity. The Task Force aims to develop a plan to reduce childhood obesity. In the announcement, President Barack Obama highlighted the statistics on childhood obesity in the United States and outlined the steps that this new task force would be taking to end childhood obesity. Section 1 of the Memorandum states: "There is established a Task Force on Childhood Obesity (Task Force) to develop an interagency

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