Thursday, February 25, 2010

Taking on “Food Deserts”

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Taking on “Food Deserts”
Posted by Cammie Croft on February 24, 2010 at 03:08 PM EST
Food desert? What’s a food desert?

As part of Lets Move!, the campaign to end childhood obesity, First Lady Michelle Obama is taking on food deserts. These are nutritional wastelands that exist across America in both urban and rural communities where parents and children simply do not have access to a supermarket. Some 23.5 million Americans – including 6.5 million children – currently live in food deserts. Watch the video below and learn what the First Lady is doing to help families in these areas across the country.

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