Taking on “Food Deserts”, Posted by Cammie Croft

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.

VIA , President Obama’s Crib..

President Obama announces more than $8 billion in loan guarantees for two new nuclear reactors as part of the Administration’s commitment to providing clean energy and creating new jobs.

Michelle Obama is going into enemy territory. The fearless first lady is set to be a guest on FOX News, a network that leans heavily against her husband, President Barack Obama.

According to Paul Bedard’s Washington Whispers blog, Mrs. Obama has agreed to be a guest on FOX News’ Huckabee With Mike Huckabee weekend talk show. Obama will discuss her new childhood obesity program with the former Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee.

Though they are political opposites, the two find common ground when it comes to the growing problem of obesity in America’s youth. The issue is bigger than political party lines. Especially for Huckabee, who penned two books about weight loss—Quit Digging Your Grave With a Knife and Fork: A 12-Step Program to End Bad Habits and Begin a Healthy Lifestyle—after losing over 100 pounds.

“It is not a left/right, liberal/conservative, Democrat/Republican issue. This is an issue that falls beyond what I call the ‘horizontal’ issues of left and right and rises to the ‘vertical’ level of up or down,” Huckabee said.

Huckabee said pushing kids to watch what they eat can be a subtle thing. “Kids respond to peer pressure and influences that surround them,” he says. “There is no simple solution because the issue is far more complex than that. It involves parents, kids, the medical community, the food industry, communities, and education. The role for government is far more limited than many will realize, but government does have a role, not to regulate personal behavior and private business but to regulate itself and its institutions.”

The first lady launched her program to battle the issue last week at a White House event. Her plan is to engage children in more physical activities and to encourage parents to help in adjusting the diets of their children.

From Pharrell’s other joint..

“Malia will tell you, my attitude was, if she came home with a B, that’s not good enough because there’s no reason why she can’t get an A…” –President Barack Obama, ESSENCE

ESSENCE kicks off the first of its three-part education series, “Teaching Our Children,” with a White House exclusive–an interview with President Barack Obama. In his first interview of 2010, he talks tough with ESSENCE editor-in-chief Angela Burt-Murray, Deputy Editor Tatsha Robertson and Washington Correspondent Cynthia Gordy about holding teachers accountable, closing the education gap between Black and White students, how he and First Lady Michelle Obama encourage daughters Malia and Sasha to love learning, and how you can do the same with your own children.

Via Essence

Yeah the entire Jon Stewart Interview

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Craaaaaaaazy, the key to our continuation is communication.

Whatever happen to following the North Star…..It’s natures Satellite/GPS . HA !

<--------------Looking at Tamron Hall -----------------> Look @ the 2:43 Mark when she says “assimilate”.