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Comment by bwestergard

2 days ago

"In February 2010, Michelle Obama launched “Let’s Move!” with a wide-ranging plan to curb childhood obesity. The campaign took aim at processed foods, flagged concerns about sugary drinks, and called for children to spend more time playing outside and less time staring at screens. The campaign was roundly skewered by conservatives... But the strategy that Kennedy’s HHS is using to address the problem so far—pressuring food companies to alter their products instead of introducing new regulations—is the same one that Obama relied on, and will likely fall short for the same reason hers did a decade ago."

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2025/09/maha-lets...

Not just pressure. Stoping SNAP benefits from funding these sugar and oil peddlers is a good thing.