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 Promoted public-health initiatives that target heart disease, diabetes, and other conditions that afflict large segments of the population

 Created new powers for the Food and Drug Administration to regulate tobacco products, offering significant new tools to combat preventable diseases

 Created new laws and regulations to improve food safety

 Established Let’s Move!, an initiative led by First Lady Michelle Obama dedicated to helping kids and families lead healthier lives

 Established practical, science-based nutrition standards for school meals

 Enacted Smart Snacks in School: practical, science-based nutrition standards for snack foods and beverages sold to children during the school day

 Enabled schools and local educational agencies with high poverty rates to provide free breakfast and lunch to all students

 Modernized the Nutrition Facts label to help consumers make healthier choices

 Cut artificial trans fat from the food supply

 Updated the Dietary Guidelines for Americans in 2010 and 2015 to reflect the latest body of science and encourage healthy eating patterns and created MyPlate and its Spanish-language version MiPlato

 Improved food safety to ensure the U.S food supply is safe by shifting the focus from responding to contamination to preventing it

 Required the posting of calorie information on menus of chain restaurants with 20 or more locations and vending machines

 Improved nutrition standards across the armed services

 Reauthorized the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) to include important investments that help participants move to self-sufficiency, strengthen program integrity, modernize technology, and emphasize good nutrition

 Expanded access to healthy foods in underserved communities while increasing farmers’ and ranchers’ customer base by making Electronic Benefits Transfer available at farmers markets

 Initiated a Summer Electronic Benefits Transfer demonstration project to reduce food insecurity among children during the summer

 Increased access to healthy food chocies for families participating in SNAP

 Launched a multi-year, multi-agency Healthy Food Financing Initiative to leverage private funds to increase the availability of affordable, healthy foods in underserved urban and rural communities across the country