Research contradicts the "food desert" theory that limited access to healthy food drives obesity rates in low-income areas.

President Obama's new school-lunch law is a good start, but healthy eating begins at home.

America's inner cities are virtual food deserts, with nary a grocery store to be found. How one Chicago coalition is trying to change all that.

First lady Michelle Obama made a big speech addressing the matter at the Department of Health and Human Services this week. Her remarks—like her entire approach to food policy since moving to Washington—were casual, yet insistent, speaking not just to the federal employees but to all working families.