Pushing for youth health and nutrition

WASHINGTON — President Obama and Michelle Obama turned the April 5 White House Easter Egg Roll into part of their childhood anti-obesity campaign while anti-hunger and nutrition advocates continue their campaign to boost the increase in funding for school meals programs above the $4.5 billion in 10 years that the Senate Agriculture Committee provided in the in child nutrition reauthorization bill it passed March 24.

By: Jerry Hagstrom, Special to Agweek