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Tag Archives: childhood obesity
Sorry Mrs. O, But Jumping Jacks Won’t Cut It
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] to eat their vegetables,” she … Continue reading
Posted in Child Nutrition, Public Health
Tagged childhood obesity, Congress, Grist, Let's Move, Obama, school food regulations, USDA
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A White House Chef Defends the First Lady
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 she announced that her Let’s Move … Continue reading
Posted in Child Nutrition, Public Health
Tagged childhood obesity, Let's Move, Obama, Obama Foodorama, Sam Kass, White House
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General Mills to Feds (and Kids): Drop Dead
A colleague sent me this hilarious email message from one Tom Forsythe, vice president of corporate communications at General Mills. It seems that the mega cereal company found itself on the receiving end of a barrage of emails complaining about … Continue reading
Interview by Nourish on Food Marketing
The kind folks at Nourish interviewed me recently. Here it is, cross-posted from their site. How does marketing influence what we eat? Michele Simon: It’s quite simple. Food companies convince us to buy unhealthy foods with very sophisticated marketing plans … Continue reading
Posted in Speaking events
Tagged childhood obesity, food marketing, food movement, Interview, Nourish magazine
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Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move After Year One: Little More than PR?
The following op-ed was recently published in numerous newspapers across the country through McClatchy-Tribune News Service.
Posted in Child Nutrition, Walmart
Tagged childhood obesity, junk food, Let's Move, marketing to children, Obama, Rudd Center, Walmart
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How Walmart Swindled the White House
When Michelle Obama first announced her Let’s Move program to end childhood obesity “within a generation” last year, I tried to remain open-minded. Like many others, I was happy to have the First Lady bring attention to this important problem. … Continue reading
Why is McDonald’s listed a resource for Childhood Obesity Awareness Month?
I am not a fan of any sort of “awareness” month as I find the concept trivializes important health issues. Are we only supposed to care about heart disease, diabetes, etc, during that one month of the year? And I … Continue reading
How Did PepsiCo’s CEO Infiltrate the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Annual Report on Obesity?
Because I tend to focus my attention on news being generated by the major food companies, I don’t always pay close attention to the latest scary reports on obesity data. So when the annual report called F as in Fat: … Continue reading