First Lady Announces Commitments to Expand Access to Healthy, Affordable Food

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First Lady Michelle Obama recently announced nationwide commitments from major food retailers to open or expand more than 1,500 stores to help provide healthy, affordable food to millions of people in areas that do not currently have easy access to fresh, nutritious food.
First Lady Michelle Obama recently announced nationwide commitments from major food retailers to open or expand more than 1,500 stores to help provide healthy, affordable food to millions of people in areas that do not currently have easy access to fresh, nutritious food.

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At a recent White House event, First Lady Michelle Obama announced nationwide commitments from major food retailers to open or expand more than 1,500 stores to help provide healthy, affordable food to millions of people in areas that do not currently have easy access to fresh, nutritious food. Across the country, 23.5 million Americans including 6.5 million children live in underserved communities that do not have readily available fresh foods for reasonable prices.

One of the key pillars of the First Ladys Lets Move! initiative is to make access to quality, affordable food available so families can get the nutritious meals they need to stay healthy and fight childhood obesity. During the announcement, the First Lady spoke about the importance of ensuring parents have a choice when shopping for healthy food.

We needed to confront this problem head on. Because we can give people all of the information and advice in the world about healthy eating and exercise. We can talk all we want about calorie counts and recipes and how to serve balanced meals. But if parents cant buy the food they need to prepare those meals, if their only options for groceries are in the corner gas station or the local minimart, then all that is just talk Instead, they should have fresh food retailers right in their communities - places that sell healthy food at reasonable prices, so that they can feed their families in the way that they see fit, because when they have those choices, that can have a real, measurable impact on a familys health, and we all know that. Studies have shown that people who live in communities with greater access to supermarkets eat more fresh fruits and vegetables, and they have lower rates of obesity.

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