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First Lady to Write Book About White House Garden
By not in system - AOL NewsMichelle Obama is working on a book that's bound to be as dirty as it is wholesome. The first lady has received a book deal from Crown, a unit of Random House, to write about the kitchen garden she started at the White House as part of her efforts to promote healthy eating. The as-yet-untitled book will be published in April 2012. The book will describe how Obama was inspired to plant the first edible garden on the White House's South Lawn since Eleanor Roosevelt's World War II-era victory garden. She will also share some of her family's favorite healthy recipes. The first lady has made ...
Michelle Obama to Write Book on White House Garden, Healthy Eating
By Politics Daily Staff - Politics DailyFirst Lady Michelle Obama will write a book about the White House garden she planted and her efforts to encourage healthy eating, Reuters reports. The news agency quoted the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, as saying the as yet untitled book is to be published in April 2012 and that all proceeds will go to charity. Ground for the original 1,100-square-foot garden on the west side of the South Lawn was cleared on March 20, 2009 and first planted the following month. It was expanded by an additional 400 square feet last year. Also last year, the first lady launched the ...
Rep. Michele Bachmann Raps First Lady Over Breastfeeding Crusade
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyAccusing the first lady of trying to create a "nanny state," Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) came down on Michelle Obama for her crusade to make it easier for women to breastfeed. In an interview Tuesday with conservative radio host Laura Ingraham, Bachmann slammed the first lady's push to get mothers to breastfeed their children as a way to reduce childhood obesity, saying it amounted to too much government intervention. As Politics Daily's Lynn Sweet reported, Michelle Obama will speak out to remove barriers to breastfeeding, following a recent White House push for relaxed workplace rules ...
Michelle Obama to Promote Breastfeeding as IRS Gives Tax Breaks for Nursing
By Lynn Sweet - Politics DailyFirst lady Michelle Obama will be speaking out to remove barriers to breastfeeding, Politics Daily has learned, throwing the spotlight on nursing as a way to reduce childhood obesity. This comes as the Obama administration in the past year has made several moves to encourage breastfeeding -- including a push for more flexible workplace rules and an Internal Revenue Service ruling on Thursday that breast pumps and other nursing supplies qualify for tax breaks. Mrs. Obama -- who has spoken in public about nursing her youngest daughter, Sasha -- is going to tread carefully in what might be a ...
Michelle Obama and Wal-Mart: Marriage of Convenience
By Luisita Lopez Torregrosa - Politics DailyMichelle Obama's decision to support Wal-Mart's five-year plan to cut back on unhealthy foods may raise some eyebrows in light of the company's employment practices and allegations of sex discrimination and anti-union policies. The first lady's joint venture with the nation's largest retailer was announced Thursday in Washington, D.C., at a community center in the low-income neighborhood of Anacostia. The company, which sells more groceries than any other retailer in the nation, plans to cut back on salts, fats and sugars, and to drop prices on fruits and vegetables. At the same time, ...
Michelle Obama's Top 10 for 2010: 'Let's Move!,' Dancing in India, and That Spain Vacation
By Lynn Sweet - Politics DailyFirst Lady Michelle Obama's 2010 included a clearly defined high (the launch of her "Let's Move" anti-childhood obesity campaign) and a notable low (her controversial vacation at an expensive resort in Spain). The year also marked her first solo international travel, to Haiti and Mexico, and having the very cool experience of Paul McCartney singing "Michelle" to her at a White House concert. Here are Mrs. Obama's top 10 for 2010: Kickoff of "Let's Move!" On Feb. 2, Mrs. Obama formalized her healthy eating and exercise agenda into the "Let's Move!" campaign with an executive order from ...
S'mores Wars: Palin Flings Dessert -- Figuratively Speaking -- in First Lady's Face
By Tom Kavanagh - Politics DailyFood fight! That seems to be what Sarah Palin wants to start, anyway. In the latest episode of her TLC reality show Sunday night, "Sarah Palin's Alaska," the former governor of the 49th state again took aim at Michelle Obama's "Let's Move" campaign to fight childhood obesity. While making s'mores, Palin noted that the chocolate and marshmallow treat was "in honor of Michelle Obama, who said the other day we should not have dessert." By "the other day," Palin apparently meant July, when the first lady recalled her active childhood in a speech to the NAACP in Kansas City: "In the afternoon, ...
Obamas Pledge School Meals Will Be More Nutritious
By Dana Chivvis - AOL News
(Dec. 13) -- It takes a mere 6 cents per meal to increase the number of fruits and vegetables on the lunch menus of the nation's public schools, according to advocates of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act, which President Barack Obama signed into law today at Harriet Tubman Elementary School in Washington, D.C. The legislation will provide that extra money -- amounting to a pledge of $4.5 billion over 10 years -- among other provisions, such as an extension of national nutritional standards to school foods sold outside cafeterias in places like vending machines and school ...
Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act: 5 Questions Answered About the New Law
By J. Richard - AOL News(Dec. 13) -- President Barack Obama worked a little more bipartisan magic today by signing his nutrition bill into law, and that should help him when it comes to getting a good night's rest. Speaking from Harriet Tubman Middle School with first lady Michelle Obama by his side, the president joked that he would be "sleeping on the couch" if he couldn't pass the bill, called the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010, ABC News reported. Michelle Obama has made children's health and nutrition a priority as first lady. "At a very basic level, this act is about doing what's right for our ...
Obama Signs Child Nutrition Bill, Kids Michelle About 'Sleeping on the Couch'
By Lynn Sweet - Politics DailyPresident Obama signed a nutrition bill on Monday with funding to improve food choices for children, a central element of First Lady Michelle Obama's anti-obesity crusade. Obama joked that getting Congress to pass it was a priority for him. "Not only am I very proud of the bill, but had I not been able to get this passed, I would be sleeping on the couch," the president said as he introduced his wife at the bill signing event at a Washington, D.C., elementary school. Mrs. Obama seemed to take the inference about their home life in stride, replying, "And all kidding aside, my ...
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