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The report includes familiar themes, emphasizing the importance of improved nutrition and physical activity. It also calls for some new and dramatic efforts to curtail marketing of unhealthy foods.
"We have a roadmap for implementing our plan across our government and across the country," Michelle Obama told reporters today.
But administration officials repeatedly emphasized the effort would rely on "bully pulpit" pressure and not any new federal mandates to push the changes
"We have a roadmap for implementing our plan across our government and across the country," Michelle Obama told reporters today.
But administration officials repeatedly emphasized the effort would rely on "bully pulpit" pressure and not any new federal mandates to push the changes
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But Federal Trade Commission Chairman Jon Leibowitz said, "A regulatory approach is certainly not where we want to start." He told a briefing, "You start by pushing self-regulation, by pushing your bully pulpit; sometimes shaming companies that don't do enough."
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The task force also sees a potential pocketbook approach to keep people from buying unhealthy foods. It calls for analyzing the effect of imposing state and local sales taxes on less healthy products.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20004653-503544.html
So is this Leibowitz guy our new Food Czar?
Also, fingers crossed, maybe they'll disallow food stamp cards from being able to purchase food that is deemed unhealthy by the federal govn.
