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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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1 posted on 05/04/2023 4:27:09 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Better name - “iHUNG”


2 posted on 05/04/2023 4:29:13 AM PDT by Chauncey Gardiner (Vivamus stultus ignarus mori )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Will the sheeple purchase it though?


3 posted on 05/04/2023 4:32:30 AM PDT by Nifty
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
My mom had a healthy food and drink program. it was called " Get yer ass outta the house and dont come back in until lunch" We never had twinkies or junk food (mostly homemade cc cookies) , kool-aid was also not for every thirst. we drank water. " for free" in the house.

We ate at meal times and if we got a rare snack, it was celery sticks with peanut butter. we almost never ate in front of the T.V.

4 posted on 05/04/2023 4:35:39 AM PDT by Ikeon (despite what you want to believe, you'll have no friends in hell. )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

$3.50 for a 4-pack of 8 ounce bottles. Must be quite a mark-up—surely the Obamas aren’t expecting to make a profit on these products aimed at “fighting childhood obesity.”


5 posted on 05/04/2023 4:37:57 AM PDT by DaBroasta
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

No one wants her government sponsored grift drink. Like her, it’s dumpster fill.


6 posted on 05/04/2023 4:38:46 AM PDT by Track9 (You are far too inquisitive not to be seduced…)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

What is she/he doing?

She hates this country


7 posted on 05/04/2023 4:39:28 AM PDT by stanne
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Carbonated camel urine?


8 posted on 05/04/2023 4:41:26 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (Bonhoeffer: “Silence in the face of evil is evil. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.”)
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To: stanne
She may hate the country but she loves money.

As an aside, I am surprised she is as healthy as she appears to be considering that she is so frikken angry.

9 posted on 05/04/2023 4:44:54 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (Bonhoeffer: “Silence in the face of evil is evil. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.”)
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To: RoosterRedux
I am surprised she is as healthy as she appears

She "appears" to be just another fat butt affirmative action grifter of which we have ....... millions. On a scale of 1 to 10, I'd give her a 2. But that's only because I've never seen a 1.

10 posted on 05/04/2023 4:48:06 AM PDT by LouAvul (Daniel 4:17: "..the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever He will.." )
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To: DaBroasta
Some of the ingredients in these drinks are terrible.

Water, Apple Juice Concentrate, Soluble Vegetable Fiber, Citric Acid, Vegetable Juice (Color) , Watermelon Juice Concentrate , Blueberry Juice Concentrate , Orange Juice Concentrate ,Potassium Citrate , Ascorbic Acid , Fruit Juice (Color) , Sodium Citrate , Magnesium Lactate , Natural Flavor , Malic Acid , Pectin , Stevia Leaf Extract , Monk Fruit Extract , Beta Carotene (Color) , Zinc Oxide

I'll drink spring water or organic drinks, and not fund The Enemy.

11 posted on 05/04/2023 4:50:09 AM PDT by DoodleBob ( Gravity’s waiting period is about 9.8 m/s²)
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To: RoosterRedux

I think her hating the country days or over. She loves what they turned it into now.


12 posted on 05/04/2023 4:51:33 AM PDT by Codeflier (My voting days are over. Let it burn...give the people what they want good and hard.)
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To: DoodleBob
I'll drink spring water or organic drinks, and not fund The Enemy.

Hear, hear!

13 posted on 05/04/2023 4:52:38 AM PDT by DaBroasta
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I remember her mandatory school lunches that starved the kids.


14 posted on 05/04/2023 4:55:03 AM PDT by ryderann
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The last time this pastry-gobbler inserted herself into the school lunch program, schools ended up feeding slop to the kids and throwing away more than was consumed.


15 posted on 05/04/2023 4:57:48 AM PDT by silverleaf (It’s not propaganda just because you disagree with it. )
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To: DoodleBob

“Natural Flavor”

These poison pushers are not required to list everything they put in processed crap they sell.

They are allowed to rename/euphamize

Natural flavor was listed as one of the euphemisms for mono sodium glutamate- MSG.
google has this whitewashed now like everything else tge scrub

I consume that and I’m in for at three day migraine.


16 posted on 05/04/2023 4:59:24 AM PDT by stanne
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

A better idea.

Home cooked meals of meats, fruits, and veggies, instead of snacks and energy drinks, and get the kids out and moving and off the screen.


17 posted on 05/04/2023 4:59:54 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith….)
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To: stanne
What is she/he doing? She hates this country

And because of that we can be sure that whatever is in that stuff is NOT going to be good for the kids.

18 posted on 05/04/2023 5:01:37 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith….)
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To: Codeflier
Good point. She must be ecstatic about the country's current state.

That said, as long as there are white people still alive and thriving anywhere in the world, she will still have a belly full of roiling stomach acid.

Can you imagine the breath on that beast? You could peel paint off a house with it.

19 posted on 05/04/2023 5:02:48 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (Bonhoeffer: “Silence in the face of evil is evil. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.”)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer; All

I think it would be a very smart move for Trump to say, “this is the way, private industry working to help our obesity problem in youth. Good work Michelle!”.


20 posted on 05/04/2023 5:04:29 AM PDT by wiseprince (Me,)
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