Yahoo – AFP,
18 June 2015
Milan (AFP)
- US First Lady Michelle Obama on Thursday visited the World Expo in Milan,
which is themed this year on food, on the lookout for ideas to help fight
childhood obesity.
Along with
daughters Sasha and Malia, and her mother Marian Robinson, healthy food
campaigner Obama spent the entire morning at the exhibition.
Accompanied
by Agnese Renzi -- the wife of Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi -- she met
with children and students at the Italian and American pavilions.
"The truth
is we still have so much work to do when we are seeing rising obesity rates,
not just in the United States but all over the world,|" she told them.
"And
it's really going to take young people like you to take this information and
make something of it, turn it into action."
Obama has
long worked on her "Let's Move!" programme to get American children
to eat more healthily and be more active.
US First
Lady Michelle Obama (C) poses with workers of the United States
pavilion at the
Expo in Milan on June 18, 2015 (AFP Photo/Giuseppe Cacace)
|
On
Thursday, she vowed to continue campaigning for healthy eating even when her
husband Barack Obama ceases to be president.
"I
know that I for one long after I leave the office of First Lady I'm going to
continue to work on these issues because our children deserve better," she
said.
"And
we can do better, we can, we have seen it here."
On
Saturday, Expo 2015 aims to break the world's largest pizza record, with a pie
set to be 1.5 kilometres (nearly a mile) long.
Meanwhile,
Obama's daughters saw the day as an opportunity for fun. They drove a little
electric car and then visited the Brazilian pavilion's massive rope hammock.
In the
afternoon, the president's family will visit US troops in Vicenza in northern
Italy, and then go to Venice until Sunday.
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