Highlights of Michelle Obama's obesity campaign
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-- The FDA will work with foodmakers to make labels more "customer friendly." The beverage industry will start putting calorie information on the front of its products.
-- The American Academy of Pediatrics will encourage doctors to monitor children's body mass index, a calculation of height and weight used to measure body fat.
-- The Obama administration will ask Congress to spend $10 billion over the next decade to give schools more money to serve healthier food.
-- $400 million in tax breaks will be proposed to encourage grocery stores to move into "food deserts," areas with little access to nutritious food.
-- Children will be encouraged to exercise an hour a day.
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-- Associated Press