ICYMI: MichelleObama and GayleKing sat down together at EssenceFest and had an honest, heartfelt conversation around health and wellness. Here, our favorite words of wisdom:
Obama said it’s why she doesn’t take her health for granted today, “because my father was an athlete—he boxed and he swam, and because of this disease, he died not being able to walk without the assistance of crutches. He was a man who valued movement and it was taken from him.”
She added: “We lose many people to things that they can't help, but when it happens because of stuff we have complete control over, the food we put in our bodies, how we move, whether we go to the doctor on a regular basis, whether we're watching out for diabetes and asthma, whether we're doing things to prevent completely preventable illnesses, I start thinking about, my God, my father didn't get to meet [our] two beautiful girls.
while in the White House, and to that Obama replied:"One of the reasons I took that issue on is because I saw very early on that we are dealing with an obesity epidemic in our children that will shorten their lives. Our children are growing up less healthy than we are, which means that their life expectancy will be shorter than us. My hope was that sometimes as parents we can do for our kids what we just can't find in us to do for ourselves.
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