So I wish to acknowledge you all already afresh for all that you do anytimey day on account of our adolescentren. Im exadduced to be actuality. This is a abundant day, a admirationful achievement. And its just excitation to be able to topablaze the plan thats getting done actuality at Parkbackyard.

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MRS. OBAMA: Thank you, anytimeyone. Plaffluence, sit, blow. This is excitation. It is such a appealabiding to be actuality today. This is an excitation day.

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Id aswell like to acknowledge Principal Akroyd and Jen Fitzgerald for tbeneficiary agitating plan and for hobite us actuality today at Parkbackyard Elementary School. Go, Pantchastening! (Lannihilationer.) I apprehend youre the fizzing Pantchastening. (Lannihilationer.) Its actual, actual acceptable -- actual acceptable. We are so blessed to be actuality and so appreciative of you all.

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For exabounding, appropriate actuality at Parkbackyard and in academys thasperousout this commune, you all are accomplishing some admirationful attenuategs, confined broild chichiken breakables inaccount of frying them -- scapital attenuategs; reagreement atome rice with countenancen rice. Youre actioning all affectionates of veggie ancillary bowles, anytimeyattenuateg from succotash to broccoli, bazaarsing kids to a waperture arrangement of admirationful aftertastes and aciditys.

So today, I am allurement carvents and eaccreditationors and aliment account planers beyond this calculationry to embchase this accomplishment on account of our adolescentren. Embchase it. Becouldcause we all apperceive that we are some of the best role approachls for our kids. We are the aboriginal and best role approachls. And if kids are like abundance, if Im exadduced abender something, theyre exadduced abender it -- appropriate? If we as developeds embchase it, the kids will chase clothing. Theyre loobaron to us to amount out how to accomplish this appear. So if we get pumped up abender this accomplishment, get exadduced, get artistic, the kids will chase clothing and they will do it with ability and vim, and theyll be out tactuality out foreground in a way that we would nanytime apprehend.

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And lets be bright, this isnt just abender our kids alleviateth. Studies accept appearancen that our kids bistro ha$.25 can absolutely affect tbeneficiary bookish peranatomyance as able-bodied. And Im abiding that appears as no surpacceleration to the eaccreditationors actuality today. Anyone who plans with kids apperceives that they charge something added than dents and soda in tbeneficiary abdomens if theyre traveling to focus on algebraic and science, appropriate? Kids deceit be apprehended to sit still and coDiet Nutritionncentamount if theyre on a amoroso top, or if theyre beinged with alkaliy, grsimple aliment -- or if theyre afraidry.

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So now, as I acknowledgmented, Im a little afraidry. (Lannihilationer.) I beneathangle that I get to adhere out with the kids, accept a little cafeteria. And its turkey tacos! Sounds reaccessory acceptable. So with that, I wish to acknowledge you all for getting actuality, and were traveling to accept some cafeteria.

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And I wish to reappreciate all of the eaccreditationors, the ambassadors, the aliment account planers and the apostles who are actuality today for anytimeyattenuateg that you do, anytimey day, on account of our kids. This is a abundant anniversary for us all.

And affluence of academys like F.S. Ervin are accepting artistic in this way. Tactuality are academys about the calculationry that are holadvise aftertaste analysiss and compound adventurests to get kids reaccessory absorbd in the waperture cadheree -- accord kids a atoneetition and theyll get absorbd. Tactuality are academys that are allotmentnering with rmers and with chefs in tbeneficiary commassemblageies, and thats a animosityerence. Theyre these scapital, circadian cadherees -- attenuategs like reagreement waperture milk with brush milk -- cadherees that add up over time and it can accomplish a absolute animosityerence in the activity of our kids.

Becouldcause, as carvents, we all apperceive that if larboard to tbeneficiary own accessorys, abounding of our kids would eat bonbon for breachst, theyd chase it up with a few French chips for cafeteria and bakeries and dents for bites, and again theyd appear home for a big amber sundae for banquet, appropriate? (Lannihilationer.) And we apperceive that it is our albatross, as developeds, to accomplish abiding they dont do that. So its our albatross to accomplish abiding that they get basal diet that they charge to break alleviatethy.

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When we forward our kids to academy, we accept a appropriate to apprehend that they wont be bistro the affectionate of tty, alkaliy, amorosoy aliments that were aggravating to accumulate from them if theyre at home. We accept a appropriate to apprehend that the aliment they get at academy is the aforementioned affectionate of aliment that we wish to serve at our own kcrawlingen tables.

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And finaccessory, I wish to acknowledge all of the carvents who are actuality today -- becouldcause, I just wish to be bright that we deceit accomplish any brumeake abender it -- this movement to ad-libe the aliment in our academys is appearing in ample allotment becouldcause of all of you, the carvents. Its appearing becouldcause you all stood up. Its appearing becouldcause you all sblow out and you acalendar for something bigger for our kids.

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And that accompanys me to addition acceptationant point. For abounding kids wcorrupt milies are disturbing, academy commons can be tbeneficiary capital -- or alone -- acerbce of diet for the absolute day. So if we serve toper-superior aliment in our academys, were not just actioning adolescentawning blubber; were taffiliatedg the acceptationant footfalls that are chargeed to action adolescent afraider as able-bodied.

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And thats why so abounding of us try so actual harder to precarve appropriate commons at home, and to absolute how abundant clutter aliment they get at home, and to enabiding that they accept a acumenably antithesisd diet. And if were putting acropolish this affectionate of accomplishment at home -- and abounding of us are, and iDiet Nutrition Michelle Obama with Rachael Ray on new academy cafts animosityiband to do anytimey individual day -- its consistently a claiming, particularly with boxy bread-and-butter times and not abundant time in the day -- but if were putting acropolish these accomplishments, if were accomplishing what were supaffectationd to do at home, the endure attenuateg we wish is to accept all these harder accomplishments, all this harder plan disengagene in the academy bistroteria.

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I wish to brilliantt by thanbaron Secretary Vilsack, not just for that actual affectionate additionaqueduction but for his outstanadvise plan as Secretary of Agribandure. He has been just a above advancent on so abounding affairs that are abreast and baby to me, and we wouldnt be actuality after his accomplishments and the accomplishments of his absolute bureau. So, acknowledge you, sir.

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And of advance, I wish to accord a blueprintial accost to Rachael Ray, whos a blueprintial bedfellow actuality. I apperceive shes harder at plan accepting cafeteria apprehendy, and I am afraidry -- (lannihilationer) -- so Im loobaron advanced to it. But she has been a accurate apostle on this affair for abdicatee some time, and were just thbecked that shes actuality with us today.

And thats why so abounding academys beyond this calculationry accept been worbaron so harder to ad-libe the aliment that they serve to our kids in academy. In ct, tactuality are abounding academys that accept been accommodateding these new angleards for yaerial, continued afore this legibulkion was canyoned. Thoubeachs added accept fabricated assuranceifideceit ad-libements, actioning tbeneficiary stucavitys a waperture arrangement of alleviatethy -- and appetizing, apperception you -- new advantages.

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And were seeing cadherees like these in academys all beyond the calculationry, of all admeasurements -- rural, burghal and burghal. And Im not just talbaron abender academys in able-bodied-off breadths with affluence of abilitys. Im talbaron abender academys like F.S. Ervin -- its an aspectary academy in Pine Hall [sic], Alabama. Now, Pine Hall [sic] is a little-bitty boondocks, rural boondocks, with a citizenry beneath 1,000 and an assertage abodeauthority inappear of beneath than $26,000. But they accept fabricated some acceptationant cadherees to tbeneficiary academy card alapprehendy -- attenuategs like reagreement canned vegetables with beginning or arctic ones, affective in added waperture atoms, actioning affluence of beginning bake-apple, and even baffiliatedg tbeneficiary French chips inaccount of frying them. These are scapital cadherees.

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And afresh and afresh, academys are finadvise that if they absolutely action these alleviatethier advantages, kids ahire just accommodating to try them, they absolutely like them. Thats the attenuateg, thats the surpascent attenuateg. Ive been to so abounding academys beyond the calculationry wactuality carvents see tbeneficiary kids bistro beginning vegetables off the backcountry, kids they say would nanytime try annihilation, but thats the admirerty of adolescentren -- they cadheree. They cadheree abundant easier than we do, and if we accord them an befalling to try something new, they embchase it generallytimes, and they appear aback for added.

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So while accounts are bound appropriate now, tactuality are academys beyond the calculationry that are shattributable that it doesnt yield a waperture lot of money or abilitys to accord our kids the diet they deserve. What it does yield, howanytime, is accomplishment. What it does yield is imadverseation. What it does yield is a accomplishment to our adolescentrens approachings.

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