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Michelle Obama launches a healthy food-and-drink brand to fight childhood obesity
FOX Business ^ | May 4, 2023 | By Sarah Rumpf-Whitten

Posted on 05/04/2023 4:27:09 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Former First Lady Michelle Obama announced the launch of a healthy food and beverage company she co-founded that is targeted at fighting childhood obesity.

The former first lady spearheaded the Let’s Move campaign, a program aimed at ending childhood obesity, during her time at the White House. She announced her latest venture at the Wall Street Journal's Future of Everything Festival on Wednesday, May 3.

"We're hoping not to just provide healthy and delicious drinks and snacks for kids, but to jumpstart a race to the top that will transform the entire food industry," Obama wrote in a PLEZi Nutrition press release announcing the launch. "Because let's face it, even after everything we accomplished during the White House years, it is still simply too hard for kids to grow up healthy."

While Obama is PLEZi Nutrition’s co-founder and strategic partner, the company is led by a team of public health, nutrition, and parenting specialists.

PLEZi Nutrition is rolling out its first product, a fruit juice for kids, in four flavors containing 75% less sugar than average leading 100% fruit juices.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: big; diluted; food; fruitjuice; lunchlady; mike; mooch; plezi; plezinutrition; thingruel; watereddown
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

How did you get so fat, Junior?

It was a SNAP - candy and soda.


21 posted on 05/04/2023 5:04:49 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: Nifty

They will buy it in droves when we tell people it is as delicious as her school lunches. /s


22 posted on 05/04/2023 5:04:50 AM PDT by dforest
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To: metmom

“…we can be sure that whatever is in that stuff is NOT going to be good for the kids.”

Goes without saying. Still worth mentioning


23 posted on 05/04/2023 5:06:01 AM PDT by stanne
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

What about Big Mike’s own fat ass? Why doesn’t he address THAT issue?


24 posted on 05/04/2023 5:07:18 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Worrying doesn't take away tomorrow's troubles. It takes away today's peace.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

An important cause of obesity is prescription drugs such as steroids for asthma.


25 posted on 05/04/2023 5:08:36 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Bean soda.


26 posted on 05/04/2023 5:10:56 AM PDT by OKSooner ("Oh, the mad fools!")
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To: Ikeon
Get yer ass outta the house and dont come back in until lunch"

The key to success is under the alarm clock

27 posted on 05/04/2023 5:10:57 AM PDT by FatherofFive (I support Trump. Not the GOP)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
The former first lady spearheaded the Let’s Move campaign,

No, it's the LEFT'S Move campaign.

28 posted on 05/04/2023 5:11:41 AM PDT by Salvey
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Only Americans would believe you can solve obesity by eating.


29 posted on 05/04/2023 5:12:16 AM PDT by motor_racer ("We're gonna punish our enemies, and we're gonna reward our friends" - Barak Obama)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Former First Lady Michelle Obama announced the launch of a healthy food and beverage company she co-founded that is targeted at fighting childhood obesity.

In the event that this company is going to be listed on the Stock Market, I recommend that everyone here short the stock.

Unless she can tap into left-over COVID funds or "Reparation" money, or land some "sweetheart-deal" and "no-bid" government contracts, this company will be doomed from the get-go.

Regards,

30 posted on 05/04/2023 5:12:28 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: Track9

i see govt contracts in their future

like govt schools


31 posted on 05/04/2023 5:14:25 AM PDT by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
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To: Ikeon
"Get yer ass outta the house and dont come back in until lunch"

YOU KIDS WERE ALLOWED INTO THE HOUSE?!

we almost never ate in front of the T.V.

YOU FOLKS HAD A T.V.?!

We were so poor

Regards,

32 posted on 05/04/2023 5:15:26 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: MayflowerMadam

BINGO. Let’s insist Big Mike slim down first.


33 posted on 05/04/2023 5:16:49 AM PDT by OHPatriot (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

She should launch herself into the Grand Canyon.


34 posted on 05/04/2023 5:19:55 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

And it doesn’t affect hormone levels so Mike doesn’t need to worry about “changing back”.


35 posted on 05/04/2023 5:22:30 AM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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To: Ikeon

Sounds like you grew up next door to me.


36 posted on 05/04/2023 5:22:50 AM PDT by upchuck (I didn't mean to push all of your buttons, I was just trying to hit mute.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

This “product” will fail if it doesn’t contain at least 20% sugar. Dentists everywhere are smiling.


37 posted on 05/04/2023 5:24:36 AM PDT by upchuck (I didn't mean to push all of your buttons, I was just trying to hit mute.)
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To: DoodleBob

Further showing the genius of Trump Water.


38 posted on 05/04/2023 5:27:34 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

It’s still sugar water


39 posted on 05/04/2023 5:30:14 AM PDT by zeebee ( The left thinks they can train smart people to be stupid.)
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To: Ikeon

My healthy living campaign slogan would be “STOP the POP.”

Juice should be looked upon as a food, not a beverage. One four ounce glass with breakfast should be it for the day.

One way to lose weight is to stop drinking calories.


40 posted on 05/04/2023 5:33:37 AM PDT by GrannyAnn ( )
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