Jumat, 10 Februari 2012

Schedule: Let's Move! Tour, Day 2, Feb. 10, 2012

Top Chef challenge, Dallas  Cowboys...
First Lady Michelle Obama begins the day in Dallas, Texas with a Top Chef-style culinary event--and Top Chefs, including host Tom Colicchio, as well as Dallas Cowboys. Then it's on to Florida, for two more events. Mrs. Obama traveled close to 2,000 miles on Thursday for the first day of the Let's Move! anniversary tour. CLICK HERE for all anniversary posts.

*Dallas, TX: 9:30 AM CT / 10:30 AM ET

"Schools and Chefs Working Together;" Top Chef

In Dallas, Mrs. Obama will be at the Kleberg Rylie Recreation Center for an event spotlighting healthy food in schools and the Chefs Move to Schools project, launched in July of 2010. There are now 3,400 chefs and 3,350 schools signed up, according to the White House. Joined by chefs who have appeared on Bravo’s hit series Top Chef, host Tom Colicchio, and members of the Dallas Cowboys, Mrs. Obama "will announce a coalition that is working together to expand" Chefs Move to Schools, which will include a new website.

The Top Chef stars and the Cowboys will do battle in "a healthy cooking competition" as students from Nancy Moseley Elementary School watch. The school is a Gold school in the HealthierUS School Challenge program, a USDA program promoted by Let's Move!. The Dallas Independent School District has the most HUSC schools in the US, with 154, most at the Gold level.

Colicchio and Sam Kass will lead the judging as Colicchio will lead the judging, as Top Chefs Richard Blais, Fabio Viviani, Jennifer Carroll, Spike Mendelsohn, Grayson Schmitz and Paul Qui compete in a healthy cooking competition. Cowboys players DeMarcus Ware, Felix Jones and DeMarco Murray will join the fun.

*Homestead, FLA: 4:00 PM ET

WebMD Town Hall: "Simple Tips For Healthy Families"

Mrs. Obama will hold a live and virtual Let's Move! Town Hall at the Homestead YMCA Family Center, hosted by WebMD. Mrs. Obama and a panel of experts will "answer questions from a live local audience and a national online audience about how families can implement healthy changes in their daily lives." The panel will include WebMD’s Director of Nutrition Kathleen Zelman, pediatrician Dr. Hansa Bhargava, nutritionist Elizabeth Ward and the YMCA’s National Director for Health and Well-being Jim Kauffman.

Parents can submit questions for the First Lady and the panel at www.webmd.com/townhall.

YMCA joined Let's Move! in 2011 with a pledge to adopt a set of standards to ensure its childcare programs programs offer children fruits, vegetables and water as snacks and adequate physical activity.

*Orland, FLA: 7:00 PM ET

"Family dinner: Change Begins At Home"

In the evening, in Orlando, Florida, Mrs. Obama will join a family at their home for dinner. The family "has made changes to become healthier," according to the White House. Mrs. Obama will "discuss the everyday changes families can make."

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