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| Tuesday, January 25, 2011 |
| Walmart Pledging Healthier Foods to Fight Obesity |
There’s a new player in Michelle Obama’s roster of corporate entities willing to help fight our battle with obesity. Walmart, the largest grocer in the U.S., has pledged to lower sodium by 25% and sugars by 10% in many of the foods the chain sells. Key foods categories targeted for the change are grains, dairy meats, condiments snacks and prepackaged foods. They also state they will be lowering the prices of fruit, vegetables and other healthier products.
While the changes are slated to be completed by 2015, the super-chain claims that a significant number of changes have already occurred.
Ironically, some research has shown that historically the presence of a Walmart Supercenter increased the obesity rate in the surrounding population by 2.4%. Here’s hoping that the current initiatives can more than reduce that trend. While many factors, including lower cost products, factor into this rate increase the bottom line is this:
If healthier choices are economical and more easily attained and unhealthy choices are more limited, then consumers purchasing habits will (hopefully) follow suit.
- Renee
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