Have you noticed that eating healthy is also expensive. Michelle Obama has set out to do something about this. Childhood obesity has become her main agenda and she will not stop at anything. Just wait until you hear the news coming out of Washington on Thursday. Walmart and Obama team up to attack obesity in our children and adults.
Recently the company has been in talks with Michelle Obama and they have derived up a plan. A plan to lower the cost of fruits and vegetables over the next 5 years. Walmart also plans on reducing the unhealthy ingredients in their packaged foods. This is right in line with what a bunch of other companies are already doing. There are already standards in place that control the amount of trans fats.
The best thing about this initiative is that Walmart is by far the largest grocery retailer in the country. If they can reduce the cost of eating healthy then more and more Americans can join in. After all isn't the reason you do not eat right is because of the cost attached to food that is good for you. I guess the fact that they are doing this over a 5 year period is to give consumers a chance to adapt to the new tasting foods. What is the point of having healthy foods if no one is going to buy and eat them.
Maybe with this going on, people might stick to their New Years resolution to lose weight. Kudos to Walmart, Michelle, and all the other companies for taking our health into concern. Hopefully fast food places like Burger King will see that Americans want to be healthy not dead. Good day all! If you want to read more about this check out this article in the NY Times.
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