{"id":2066,"date":"2010-05-11T09:14:10","date_gmt":"2010-05-11T13:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=2066"},"modified":"2010-05-11T09:46:10","modified_gmt":"2010-05-11T13:46:10","slug":"childhood-obesity-report-released-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/05\/11\/childhood-obesity-report-released-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Childhood obesity report released today"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Talk to food and nutrition experts, and most will rave about First Lady Michelle Obama.\u00a0 Between her high-profile White House garden and now higher-profile campaign to end childhood obesity<\/a>, Michelle Obama has changed the game in where food and nutrition fit into national priorities.\u00a0 She’s partnered a lot with celebrity chef, Jamie Oliver, and his Food Revolution<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Today, Obama and her Childhood Obesity Task Force release their report and strategy for defeating the epidemic in one generation.\u00a0 You can watch the press conference live here.<\/a><\/p>\n

Traditionally, First Lady initiatives have been kept carefully buffered from poilitics, and therefore, real change.\u00a0 When they do have teeth…well…just look at what happened to Hillary Clinton’s health care initiative when she was First Lady.<\/p>\n

As we pointed out yesterday<\/a>, it’s impossible to address obesity and nutrition in America without addressing subsidies.\u00a0 So I’ll be looking for signs that this childhood obesity strategy is looking ahead to the next Farm Bill to make some real changes.<\/p>\n

UPDATE: Forgot to add that Senator Kirsten Gillibrand is getting in on the fight childhood obesity action with her own celebrity chef.\u00a0 Today she’s in DC with Rachel Ray to push for improvements to the Childhood Nutrition Bill.\u00a0 From the press advisory:<\/p>\n

Television personality, author, founder of the Yumo-! organization\u00a0and leading child nutrition advocate Rachael Ray<\/strong> will team up with fellow New Yorker Senator Kirsten Gillibrand<\/strong> (D-NY), a member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, to lobby federal lawmakers for billions more in child nutrition funding to combat childhood obesity.\u00a0First, Ray and Gillibrand will visit third graders at a local D.C. elementary school near Capitol Hill to promote healthy eating before Ray heads to Capitol Hill to lobby lawmakers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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