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Michele Obama offered another clue about her life after the White House when she spoke at a health conference in Washington on Friday.

The first lady has been a crusader against childhood obesity through her Let’s Move initiative and vowed to continue the fight in her political afterlife.

“The truth is, is that it actually doesn’t matter where I’m sitting eight months from now,” she told delegates at the Partnership for a Healthier America meeting. “What matters is that we all keep standing together on behalf of our kids.”

Obama added to applause: “And while next year I will no longer be first lady, I just want you to know that I will always be here as a partner in this effort – always. So I’m not here today to give a victory speech, and these certainly aren’t my closing remarks on this issue – just the opposite. I was passionate about this issue long before I became first lady, and I plan to work on it long after I leave the White House.”

She praised the work of Partnership for a Healthier America and announced that, for first time in 20 years, the FDA has produced a new nutrition facts label that will be on nearly 800,000 food products nationwide. The calorie count is bigger, the serving sizes more accurate and the quantity of sugar added in processing will be shown. “So very soon you will no longer need a microscope, a calculator, or a degree in nutrition to figure out whether the food you’re buying is actually good for our kids.”

It is clearly an issue Obama takes personally. With her passion evident, she added: “If six years ago someone had told you that Fenway Park would have a 5,000 square foot farm on their rooftop to provide fresh produce for their fans, or that 50 million Americans would visit a government website called MyPlate to learn about healthy eating, or that sales of kale would jump 50 percent in just four years, or that the first unanimously chosen NBA MVP, Steph Curry, would choose fruits, vegetables, and water as his primary product endorsements ...

“If someone had told you all that six years ago, you would have thought they had were out of their minds. But that’s the kind of meaningful, tangible change that we’re seeing throughout the country.”