Michelle Obama Quotes

Very few parents give out healthy lunchboxes due to pressure from their children.

It's not up to the kids to decide what's healthy for them. That's our job.

Cooking with your kids and engaging them in hands-on activities are two ways to begin to educate children about the healthy eating, and kick start the important task to help change how the younger generation looks at food and nutrition.

Childhood nutrition and healthy eating is a cause that is extremely close to my heart.

Many people think children must have chips. I don't think any household should have a deep fat fryer.

Feeding my children is not like feeding myself: it matters more.

The sweetest thing we ever had was, like, animal crackers in the pantry. I think my parents sort of passively made sure that we didn't have a lot of junk food at our disposal, and I think that helped me and all my siblings growing up with how to approach nutrition and eating right.

A nutritionist helps me eat healthily at home.

Jamie Oliver, quite rightly, was talking about trying to improve the diet of children in schools and improving school meals, but the net effect was the number of children eating school meals in many of these places didn't go up, it went down.

Packing lunches and going over menus is a great way to make small changes in the way your kids eat.

It does kids no favors, and sets them up for a potential lifetime of poor health and social embarrassment, to excuse them from family meals of real food. Everyone benefits from healthy eating, but it is particularly crucial at the beginning of life.

I do think it is the responsibility of parents to feed their children properly.

I had a problem of not eating well when I was young. My parents always used to try to stress on me about eating well.

I cannot keep myself to a particular diet. I eat what I want, when I want and try to keep it as healthy as I can.

Nutrition is just so important to me, mostly especially for children.

Schools should serve breakfast, lunch and an afternoon snack. No sugared drinks, no fast type food.

I believe that parents need to make nutrition education a priority in their home environment. It's crucial for good health and longevity to instill in your children sound eating habits from an early age.

Burgers and fries are an American staple. On the same token, my kids eat vegetables, and they always have eaten vegetables. They didn't have a choice but to eat vegetables.

The Food Network and the Cooking Channel have so many viewers. And, because there's no violence, some of that audience is children. So, I think we have a responsibility to educate parents how to produce healthy meals for their families.

Growing up, my parents were healthy eaters and starting to run and compete when I was 13, I knew the need to focus on what you need to eat. I remember going to grocery store myself and picking up fresh fruit and knowing early on the right foods to fuel my body.

We eat pretty healthy foods, and I've taught my kids since they were little about knocking out trans fats.

Childhood obesity is best tackled at home through improved parental involvement, increased physical exercise, better diet and restraint from eating.

I do have a priority in my house, and that is I want my kids to be healthy, and if I give them the right food, I am headed consistently toward that goal.

I love to read about healthy eating and preach to my husband, who doesn't listen. Now I'm trying to teach it to my daughters.

We're all bombarded with so many dietary messages that it's hard to find time to sort through all this information, but we do have time to take a look at our kids' plates.