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The Wrong Obama Gives Tough Talk on Junk Food Marketing to Kids

By Michele Simon on September 27, 2013

This past week, Michelle Obama gathered 100 food industry representatives, academic experts and public-health advocates for a “summit” at the White House to discuss junk food marketing to children. The event included public remarks by…
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Poor Dietary Habits Killing More Than Smoking

By News Desk on July 17, 2013

More exercise is not cutting into the nation’s high obesity levels, and unwise diets are killing more people than about anything else—including smoking, drinking and drug use. Those are among the findings of a new…
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Letter From The Editor: First Lady of the United States

By Dan Flynn on March 10, 2013

Why am I not surprised with the snarky comments made around the anniversary of Michelle Obama’s “Let’s Move” campaign?  It was entirely predictable that if Mrs. Obama celebrated any success in her campaign, the classless…
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LFTB-maker Met With White House Staff in 2011

By Helena Bottemiller on June 18, 2012

About a year before Lean Finely Textured Beef, or pink slime, would garner national attention — and outrage among consumers on social media — the product’s maker, Beef Product Inc, paid a visit to the…
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Sorry Mrs. O, But Jumping Jacks Won't Cut It

By Michele Simon on December 27, 2011

At a recent summit on childhood obesity, the first lady announced a shift in her well-known Let’s Move campaign — away from food reform and toward an increased focus on exercise. Instead of “forcing [children]…
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A White House Chef Defends the First Lady

By Michele Simon on December 12, 2011

Marion Nestle, the author of Food Politics, recently got a reminder that food is indeed political, right up to the nation’s highest office. On November 30, the first lady made a speech in which…

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'Porcupine Sliders' Win School Lunch Contest

By News Desk on July 29, 2011

Porcupine Sliders, turkey burgers jazzed up with brown rice, spinach, celery, garlic spices and dried cranberries, captured the grand prize in First Lady Michelle Obama’s Recipes for Healthy Kids competition.

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Test Kitchen: Looking for a School Lunch Winner

By Amy Halloran on May 13, 2011

Last weekend, I cooked dinner using entries from the Recipes for Healthy Kids competition, the joint venture by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and First Lady Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move! campaign to improve school meals…

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USDA Intros Online Tool for Locating Food Deserts

By News Desk on May 3, 2011

A new Internet-based mapping tool pinpoints the location of what the U.S. government calls “food deserts.”

The online Food Desert Locator, developed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Economic Research Service (ERS), was…

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Helping Kids Opt for Healthy Food at School

By Gretchen Goetz on February 28, 2011

Food Safety News talks with leaders of some of the nation’s top school nutrition programs to find out what motivates kids to choose healthy food at the cafeteria.

You can lead a child to cauliflower,…
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