{"id":64215,"date":"2012-02-02T14:56:26","date_gmt":"2012-02-02T19:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/?p=64215"},"modified":"2012-02-03T00:23:35","modified_gmt":"2012-02-03T05:23:35","slug":"first-lady-michelle-obama-beats-ellen-at-push-up-contest-while-promoting-lets-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/02\/first-lady-michelle-obama-beats-ellen-at-push-up-contest-while-promoting-lets-move\/","title":{"rendered":"Michelle Obama and Tracey Mallett Get Kids Moving on Ellen [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Michelle Obama and Tracey Mallett Get Kids Moving on Ellen\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/02\/first-lady-michelle-obama-beats-ellen-at-push-up-contest-while-promoting-lets-move\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-64218\" title=\"michelle obama on ellen\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/michelle-obama-on-ellen-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/michelle-obama-on-ellen-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/michelle-obama-on-ellen.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>First lady Michelle Obama has been a busy woman this week. She&#8217;s been making the talk show rounds as she promotes <strong><a title=\"Michelle Obama's Let's Move campaign\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/videos\/michelle-obama-launches-lets-move!\/\">Let\u2019s Move<\/a><\/strong>, a campaign is designed to end <strong><a title=\"childhood obesity around the world\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/08\/childhood-obesity-around-the-world\/\">childhood obesity<\/a><\/strong> by teaching children about fitness and healthy eating.<\/p>\n<p>As the first lady wraps up her week, she will be a guest on the <em>Ellen<\/em> show today alongside <strong><a title=\"Booty Barre workout\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diets\/booty-barre-plus-abs\/\">Booty Barre<\/a><\/strong> creator and fitness expert <strong><a title=\"Tracey Mallett\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/01\/tracey-mallett-says-healthy-is-the-new-skinny-for-2012\/\">Tracey Mallett<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Mallett and Mrs. Obama invite 40 children to the stage to demonstrate exercises to keep them moving and excited about good health. Mallett led the children of Whitney Elementary through a fun workout the kids loved. In an email from Mallett, she described the episode as &#8220;an amazing experience.&#8221; See it now, and try it with your own kids!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jmBQ2hQ2G_E\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"480\" height=\"274\"><\/iframe><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>While on the show, DeGeneres questions Mrs. Obama regarding her workout routine. The fact that our healthy <strong><a title=\"michelle obama workout\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/03\/michelle-obamas-sexy-sculpted-arms\/\">first lady works out<\/a><\/strong> everyday for an hour and a half prompts DeGeneres to challenge her to a push-up contest. Viewers will see our first lady drop and give 25 push-ups with minimal effort on national TV, beating DeGeneres who becomes winded very quickly.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs. Obama has been on <em>Rachael Ray<\/em> and <em>The Tonight Show<\/em> this week. While on Jay Leno\u2019s show, she convinced the self-proclaimed vegetable hater to eat a veggie pizza and apples dipped in honey from the white house garden bee hives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First lady Michelle Obama has been a busy woman this week. She&#8217;s been making the talk show rounds as she promotes Let\u2019s Move, a campaign is designed to end childhood obesity by teaching children about fitness and healthy eating. As &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/02\/first-lady-michelle-obama-beats-ellen-at-push-up-contest-while-promoting-lets-move\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1367,18],"tags":[2793,3027,2611,6429,6520],"class_list":["post-64215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-childrens-health","category-fitness","tag-ellen-degeneres","tag-lets-move","tag-michelle-obama","tag-tracey-mallett","tag-tv"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64215"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64217,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64215\/revisions\/64217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}