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For organic tomatoes, grapes in the land transport cart Tara Smoot that an enormous act of will. First of all, withdrew from any ban on junk food for Fried Chicken and chocolate milk was the menu for their children and enjoy pasta, chips and sweets, she and her husband. Then ready for a higher bill for shopping.

It is much cheaper than unhealthy food hygiene, he said. And there is the temptation for each step of the way. For fresh produce in this part of Wal-Mart Super Center Mrs. Smoot to reach his car was pushed over the Jumbo bags of peanuts and sugar free Chocolate Cream Pies - even 220 calories per slice. Before us, chocolates anywhere in the body.

But Ms Smoot, 27, is to stay firmly at-home mom who has changed the food, last October, said after the development of hyperglycemia, and eat better. Dinner tonight is a low-carb wraps salmon, mozzarella with a tomato and soy milk smoothies. We're trying to eat a little healthier - nothing canned or frozen, said his sister, Amber.

Families like the Smoots were part of the Wal-Mart in the calculation, if the largest store in the world, announced last April that they want to start selling organic food in the famous low prices, charging a premium of 10% compared with non-organic.

Organic food to the masses is here, and at a time when America as a nation had never eaten so thick or so badly. Seventeen percent of children and adolescents are overweight and 66% of adults, of whom 32% are obese. Sixty-eight percent of adults say they do not eat enough fruits and vegetables.

The Wal-Mart is the displacement of several indications that more Americans are starting to think seriously about what they eat. In a food market has been stagnant for many years, organic farming and fair - of course based on low - 20% per year, says Joseph Mendelson, Center for Food Safety in Washington.
Demand for organic milk exceeds supply on a regular basis, and every year more agricultural land used for agriculture.

Amid concerns about diet, some researchers believe that the American obesity epidemic has reached a turning point. The whole country has stabilized, the prevalence of obesity among women - even if still on the field with men.

I think it is reasonable to think that perhaps the highlight of the obesity epidemic, said Frank Franklin, a pediatrician at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, studies leading to childhood obesity. It says his studies show that rates of obesity in Birmingham has in recent years. There are still many things - could be as high as 25% are overweight - but does not seem to have changed in recent years, he said.


But there are signs that Americans are starting to fight the idea of expanding waistlines them - even if that knowledge is still moving on the scale.
Two years ago, Super Size Me, the film of all time was about 30 days for each diet of McDonald 's, one of the top-grossing documentary. Fast food chains now offer regular salads, confectionery manufacturer and smaller sizes. The soft drink producers have signed withdraw too sugary drinks in public schools.

In Arkansas, all employees of state government to provide free nutritional advice to start next month, thank you for the right to a personal crusade by Governor Mike Huckabee, who shed 50 kilograms (110 pounds), after The Doctors had warned in size this decade to kill.

Now, Wal-Mart brings premium fruits, vegetables and other parts of America, which simply does not exist already. However, this does not necessarily mean that Americans will make the right decisions.

The Wal-Mart move is a decision good business sense on their part to take advantage of what really is a growing market for organic food, said Mark Winne, who writes about food and nutrition. I think because people eat organic food does not necessarily mean eating healthier foods. They could eat organic chocolate chip cookies.