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Michelle Obama to tour Florida for healthy eating

Posted Feb 7, 2012 by William March

Updated Feb 7, 2012 at 12:46 PM

First Lady Michelle Obama will make stops in Homewood, Orlando and Longwood Friday and Saturday as part of a tour on the two-year anniversary of her Let’s Move! healthy eating initiative.

The initiative, begun in February 2010, is intended to solve the problem of childhood obesity within a generation.

On Friday, Obama will hold a town hall session at a Homewood YMCA along with health and nutrition experts, then have dinner with an Orlando-area family who have made healthy dietary changes. On Saturday, she’ll speak to a gathering at Longwood’s Northland, A Church Distributed, then participate in an exercise event at the ESPN Wide World of Sports at Disney World.

It’s the second month in a row the First Lady has visited the political battleground state of Florida. She held a healthy eating event for Latinos in Tampa, and hit fundraisers in Sarasota and Palm Beach, shortly before last month’s Republican presidential primary.