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As the First Lady of the United States, Michelle Obama has become a role model in the awareness arena for healthy eating, sharing her homegrown recipes via her cookbook. Next celebrity chef? She has also become a fashion icon and has been named by Forbes Magazine as the eighth most powerful woman in the world.
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First lady Michelle Obama speaks at the Democratic National Committee’s Women’s Leadership Forum in Washington….
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First lady Michelle Obama speaks on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Monday, Oct. 17, 2011, during an event to honor schools that met the first lady’s goal to double the number of participants in the HealthierUS School Challenge in year.
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Michelle Obama attends cultural performances in Brasilia, Brazil….
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Michelle Obama introduces President Barack Obama at a DNC fundraiser at Gotham Hall, New York-
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Michelle Obama gestures before introducing her husband President Barack Obama at a DNC fundraiser at Gotham Hall in New York. She’s mingled barefoot among Aspen’s elite, stirred a Vermont utility executive to tears and bucked up disenchanted New Yorkers. The 2012 presidential campaign is well under way for Michelle Obama, and the first lady is promising to put herself into the election effort like never before. More than a year from Election Day, she is hauling in millions in campaign cash and sketching a portrait of her husband drawn with an intimacy that no one else could duplicate.
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Michelle Obama speaks to children at Christ Church College in Oxford, England.-
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Michelle Obama speaks to children from Elizabeth Garrett Anderson school in London as they visit Christ Church College in Oxford, England.
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Dec 18 2011
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Are you ready for Michelle Obama, kitchen goddess? The first lady’s pulling a Gwyneth Paltrow and publishing a cookbook. Americn Grown, on sale April 10, 2012, combines veggie growing tips with recipes inspired by Michelle’s White House garden.
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It’s a garden she’s toiled over since 2009. So have daughters Sasha and Malia, who help with the weeding “like it or not”. Despite being a gardening novice, Obama’s laid the groundwork for over 55 varietals of veggies. Stalks of black kale, bright yellow peppers, and beams of eggplant have grown from the most expansive garden the White House lawn has ever seen.
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Now it’s growing beyond the Obama home, and into the cookbook arena. According to her publishers, she’ll use the garden’s offerings as the starting point for seed-sowing, recipe ideas and personal anecdotes and photos of the Obamas’ home-base. The aim of the book is to show how “increased access to healthy, affordable food can promote better eating habits and improve health of families and communities across America,” according to the publishers at Random House, who
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Dec 18 2011
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Nov 06 2011
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11 Foods for Faster, Easier Weight Loss
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Hold this thought: To lose weight effectively and permanently, you need to eat. And eat smart. Happily, nature designed a lot of delicious edibles to turn up your fat-burning furnace, flatten your belly, and take a big bite out of your appetite.
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Here are 11 of the get-slim food gems we’re talking about. . . . .
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Yogurt
Mmmm. This creamy, tangy snack is loaded with calcium — and studies show that calcium may curtail weight gain by hindering the absorption of fat in the small intestine.
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Eggs
Turn breakfast into a fat-burning morning boost by skipping the stack of pancakes and feasting on
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Jun 01 2011
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Pia Toscano arrives at the “American Idol” Season 10 finale results show….
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Jennifer Lopez arrives at the “American Idol” Season 10 finale results show at Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles.
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May 31 2011
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Scotty McCreery is announced the “American Idol” for 2011 during the Season 10 finale results show at Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles.
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Finalists Scotty McCreery and Lauren Alaina await the final decision onstage during the “American Idol” Season 10 finale results show at Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles.
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Pia Toscano, Ashton Jones, Beyonce, and Naima Adedapo perform during the “American Idol” Season 10 finale results show at Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles.
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Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony perform onstage during the “American Idol” Season 10 finale results show at Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles.
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Finalists Lauren Alaina (L) and Scotty McCreery walk onstage during the “American Idol” Season
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May 30 2011