First Lady Michelle Obama Hits Back At Efforts To Chip Away Her Plan To Fight Childhood Obesity

NBC ID: ARJ53JV9XR | Media Type: Aired Show | Air Date(s): 05/27/2014 | Event Date(s): 02/25/2014, 04/02/2014, 05/27/2014

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Event Date(s): 02/25/2014, 04/02/2014, 05/27/2014 | Event Location(s): Washington, District of Columbia, Miami, Florida | Description: INT MS: Student (faces unseen) carries tray of food in a school cafeteria. MS: Shots of students (faces unseen) holding items to be purchased. EXT DAY MS: In interview student says “It's important to eat healthy because-- because if you don't, you'll probably get diseases like diabetes and I don't want that.” MS: In interview student says “Sometimes it tastes like really nasty to me.” EXT DAY WASHINGTON DC 2014-04-02 MS: First Lady Michelle Obama and children plant the 6th annual White House Kitchen Garden. MS: Michelle Obama. 2 MS: Michelle Obama and a child at the garden near a garden tool. INT WASHINGTON DC 2014-05-27 MS: In a speech Michelle Obama says “We're now seeing efforts in Congress to roll back these new standards and undo the hard work that all of you, all of us have done on behalf of our kids.” INT MIAMI, FLORIDA 2014-02-25 MS: Michelle Obama, children, and an instructor do yoga at the Gwen Cherry Park NFL/YET Center. INT 2 MS: Student pays school cafeteria worker for lunch. MS: Students in school cafeteria line select fresh fruit. MS: School lunch container including milk and a packet of carrots. INT WASHINGTON DC MS: In speech Michelle Obama says “It's unacceptable to me not just as First Lady but as a mother.” INT MS: Shots of uneaten school lunch foods including carrots are thrown in a garbage can with other lunch garbage. INT MS: In interview School Nutrition Association’s Jean Ronnei says “If students aren't accepting the meals that we serve. We will see waste, we will see participation go down and across the country, that's what we're seeing.” CLIPS: Clips from documentary “Fed Up” about the school lunch debate including author Michael Pollan saying “The government is subsidizing the obesity epidemic.” INT MIAMI 2014-02-25 2 MS: Michelle Obama and TV personality Mario Lopez do Zumba during a visit to the Gwen Cherry Park NFL/YET Center. EXT DAY MS: NBC’s Peter Alexander walks with Michelle Obama’s nutrition policy advisor Sam Kass during an interview. MS: Kass says “I think we got to work together for with-- particularly with companies that are trying to do the best by American families and put pressure on the other ones to-- to-- to follow suit.” INT WASHINGTON DC MS: Michelle Obama delivers speech. INT 2 MS: Student looks at fresh fruits and vegetables on display in a school cafeteria as a gloved cafeteria worker’s hand (faces unseen) pushes the fruits and vegetables forward. INT WASHINGTON DC MS: In speech Michelle Obama says “I don't want to look back with regret and think we gave up on our kids because we felt like this thing was too hard or too expensive.” INT MS: Elementary student eats spaghetti at lunch. VO: Alexander signs off from the White House.

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