Organizers behind a hip-hip music video featuring a cameo by Michelle Obama hope the first lady’s appearance will help encourage kids to get active.
The song

featured in the video is one of 19 on an album from the Partnership for a Healthier America, in collaboration with Hip Hop Public Health. The two organizations teamed up with celebs to produce songs they hope will motivate children to exercise and be more physically active.

Songs for a Healthier America

As seen on “Dr. Oz,” Songs for a Healthier America is brought to you by Hip Hop Public Healthand the Partnership for a Healthier America. We hope these songs get your whole family moving to the beat! Download “Everybody” featuring Jordin Sparks, Doug E.Fresh, Dr.Oz and the Hip Hop Doc below, and make sure to check back soon for downloadable versions of all of the songs listed below.

The single was released in June and can be downloaded on PHA’s website for free. The full 19-track album, which will feature a combination of pop and hip-hop songs

, also will be available for free when it is released on Sept. 30. Other artists featured on the album include Ashanti, Doug E Fresh, DMC, and Hip Hop MD.

The (above) project is not part of the first lady’s Let’s Move! initiative, but supports the program’s goals of finding ways to reduce the national childhood obesity rate. Read full article from the Today show here
From the Let's Move About Section:

"In the end, as First Lady, this isn’t just a policy issue for me. This is a passion. This is my mission. I am determined to work with folks across this country to change the way a generation of kids thinks about food and nutrition."
First Lady Michelle Obama
CLICK HERE to See: Let’s Move! milestones and collaborations in 2012

Let’s Move! is a comprehensive initiative, launched by the First Lady, dedicated to solving the problem of obesity within a generation, so that children born today will grow up healthier and able to pursue their dreams. Sure, this is an ambitious goal. But with your help, we can do it.
Combining comprehensive strategies with common sense, Let’s Move! is about putting children on the path to a healthy future during their earliest months and years. Giving parents helpful information and fostering environments that support healthy choices. Providing healthier foods in our schools. Ensuring that every family has access to healthy, affordable food. And, helping children become more physically active.
At the launch of the initiative, President Barack Obama signed a Presidential Memorandum creating the first-ever Task Force on Childhood Obesity to conduct a review of every single programs and policies relating to child nutrition and physical activity and develop a national action plan to maximize federal resources and set concrete benchmarks toward the First Lady’s national goal. The Task Force recommendations focus on the five pillars of the First Lady’s Let’s Move! initiative:

Creating a healthy start for children
Empowering parents and caregivers
Providing healthy food in schools
Improving access to healthy, affordable foods
Increasing physical activity

Everyone has a role to play in reducing childhood obesity, including parents and caregivers, elected officials from all levels of government, schools, health care professionals, faith-based and community-based organizations, and private sector companies. Your involvement is key to ensuring a healthy future for our children.