First Lady Michelle Obama promotes healthy food in California - pics

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INGLEWOOD, CA - FEBRUARY 01: First lady Michelle Obama speaks with Los Angeles City Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (R) and Inglewood Mayor James Butts (L) looking on at the future site of Northgate Market to discuss the California FreshWorks Fund on February 1, 2012 in Inglewood, California. The $264 million public-private fund plans to bring healthy food stores to under-served communities and create or retain up to six thousand jobs. The fund has committed $20 million in financing to Northgate for the first three projects, which are in South Los Angeles, Inglewood and the City Heights portion of San Diego. The first lady will end her two-day visit with a television appearance to promote her fight against childhood obesity and a fundraiser for her husband U.S. President Barack Obama.















INGLEWOOD, CA - FEBRUARY 01: First lady Michelle Obama (R) poses for a photograph with employees of Gonzalez Northgate Market after her speech at the future site of Northgate Market to discuss the California FreshWorks Fund on February 1, 2012 in Inglewood, California. The $264 million public-private fund plans to bring healthy food stores to under-served communities and create or retain up to six thousand jobs. The fund has committed $20 million in financing to Northgate for the first three projects, which are in South Los Angeles, Inglewood and the City Heights portion of San Diego. The first lady will end her two-day visit with a television appearance to promote her fight against childhood obesity and a fundraiser for her husband U.S. President Barack Obama.







U.S. first lady Michelle Obama is hugged by a guest after she spoke at the future site of a Northgate Gonzales Market to highlight progress of the California FreshWorks Fund, a $264 million public-private financing fund that invests in bringing grocery stores and other forms of healthy food retailers to underserved communities in Inglewood, California February 1, 2012. The California FreshWorks Fund has committed $20 million in financing to Northgate for its first three projects. The first lady is on a two-day visit to Southern California and talking about her "Let's Move!'' initiative, which began two years ago to solve the problem of childhood obesity within a generation.


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First lady promotes healthy food in California
Associated Press
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 10:05 AM
Updated today at 11:07 AM

INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) — Michelle Obama says a proposed new supermarket in the middle of a blue-collar Hispanic neighborhood in Southern California is an example of how the effort to bring healthy foods to low-income communities is paying off.

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1. Excellent idea!

Great message and great leader.

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2. how anyone can attack such an obviously nice woman is beyond me

she looks beautiful