The Michelle Obama Garden Legacy

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One of the interesting outcomes of Let’s Move! was the promise extracted from major national food corporations to remove 1.5 trillion calories from the American diet. Really? How on Earth could a thing like that be measured? Only if the root cause were total crop failure and absolute famine, maybe then such a number could […]

Michelle Obama’s Childhood Obesity Legacy

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Childhood Obesity News has been looking at various aspects of Mrs. Obama’s Let’s Move! project, which rests on four basic notions: 1. Parents need to be educated and empowered. 2. Schools need to do their best to bring in nourishing food and keep junk food out. 3. There are food deserts throughout the country, and […]

More Media — An Oldie but Goodie

To continue the theme of Childhood Obesity Awareness Month, we look at the audio-visual media works and the awareness they have created.

How Funny is Obesity, Anyway?

The very popular TV comedy Parks and Recreation makes fun of the dysfunctional government and greedy companies responsible for the obesity epidemic.