I found the NY Times article titled "Wal-Mart Plans to Make its House Brand Healthier"by Sheryl Gay Stolberg interesting and encouraging. Wal-Mart is going to implement a five-year plan to make thousands of its packaged foods lower in unhealthy salts, fats and sugars, and to drop prices on fruits and vegetables. Michelle Obama is helping to promote this change because of her care for reducing child obesity. Wal-Mart hopes that this change with encourage its suppliers and other retail stores to take similar action. This article is encouraging because it shows that Americans are starting to take measures to reduce obesity. The adherence to this movement by Wal-Mart, the biggest grocer in America, could help make a dent in this ever growing problem.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/20/business/20walmart.html?hp
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