brought to the surface? >> is that the most valuable? >> there is one tiny distinction that makes it more valuable, was it stained with moon dust. >> moon swag. what would it cost on the moon? >> this is highly affordable. anybody should be able to make that. >> without doubt. >> america's food desert.

it is no secret that america is fat. that extra weight may be killing us. for first time in history, americans manned up with a short he life span than their parents, because of obesity. and the big part of the problem is food desert. where quick fix low nutrition meals have taken over. "america tonight's" michael okwu visited an american food desert. does the community really have an appetite for change? >> reporter: you're looking at a fast food waste land. south central los angeles. it's supersized with yurch junkd joints and drowning in big gulps. negotiating with the bloods and bloods and crips, time and sage in a song.

>> you're going to smell how fragrant and different it is. the be chef at post and beam with its own herb garden. >> for me, it was more coming home. i was born in inglewood. there was opportunity to open up a flagship restaurant for the redevelopment of the mall. how could we say no to that? >> armstrong is betting south l.a. residents will want his version of fast food. >> show me something you could make in this restaurant that is affordable and something at home could make. >> i'll show you a simple kale salad that we did. all the greens we buy from the south central co-op, they supply us with you're kale, the collard greens we use. >> if only one available to south l.a. residents, 30% who live below the federal poverty level.

>> what would this cost me to make? >> $2. >> so very affordable. anybody could make it. >> it's fresh ingredients, we massage the kale a little bit with the dressing, that breaks it down a little, makes it easier to digest. >> everything and everyone need to be pampered even the kale. >> he whips it up in less time than you would be in a drive-through. >> this tastes delicious. regardless of the taste, south l.a. residents ready to trade a whropper for a kale salad? >> you don't see a lot of people who are willing to put prom gran ats and kale together to make a salad. >> maybe. >> full of fast food places. the city actually backed the opening new ones hoping obesity would drop.

but a think tank believed that the first few years of the ban people got fatter and ate more fast food. >> do developers believe this is a neighborhood that only relies on fast food? you can't have a sit down restaurant they are not interested in it? >> there weren't people who were interested in investing in it, they didn't trust or believe in the community perhaps. but we believe that people need good options. >> you build it and they will come. >> knock wood. 80. >> and they have been coming. >> they certainly have. we're going on our fourth year and things are going well. we're very happy. >> post and beam is one of the top restaurants in south l.a. one of only a handful in south l.a. bragging rights owner brad johnson is proud of. >> it's not often you see a restaurant in this caliber

convinced that south l.a. would want good feed and willing to pay for it. >> judge is this place important? >> you have to be careful as a black entrepreneur whether you wave the flag too proudly as black owned because to some that says oh that's exclusive, not for the rest of us. but what's necessary is that african americans have to recognize that our culture is important. and in order for our culture to survive, black businesses which represent a part of our culture have to be patronized because when they're not they disappear. black neighborhoods disappear and then we don't have that. and i think you know we've seen that happen, in neighborhoods like harlem and neighborhoods like oakland and neighborhoods like this one. >> but from the looks of it post and beam may be changing that .

angelinos like this. >> people are surprised, they are really friendly here. what did you think? we're having a good time, plan, we're enjoying it drinking wine, watching the lakers, voog good having a good time. >> while post and beam won't wipe out obesity, it will change habits one mind at a time and give residents in south l.a. something they deserve and now demand. >> do you get that a lot? >> people are anxious to show off that something like this has happened in their neighborhood. >> michael okwu, al jazeera, los angeles. >> 97 next, could we really be running out of chocolate? later, putting a price on stardust, some of most valuable

souvenirs but who gets to collect on lunar loot?

>> just 12 men, all of them american have walked on the moon. the apollo program, neil armstrong kept a stash of apollo 11 souvenirs, including a movie camera hidden in a closet. the first man on the moon didn't sell his space trinkets. but others have tried to. which "america tonight"'s adam may finds has led to earthly interventions. >> reporter: apole low astronauts, they won the space race, beating the soviets to the moon and captivated the world. they were heroes with the right stuff. bringing home moon rock and mementos, souvenirs of their historic journeys.

>> sold 37,500. >> nearly half a century later space artifacts and memorabilia from the apole low mission are worth a small fortune with some items selling for tens even hundreds of thousands of dollars dollars. >> last call, sold, $50,000. >> robert pearlman is the founder and editor of collect space.com. >> what is most valuable? >> pecking order, things that flew to the moon are on that top level. then did it get distinguished by did it go to the moon and orbit the moon? or did it go onto the moon or did it open into the surface? that's the most valuable. tiny distinction was it stained with moon dust. one of the checklists that was on their wrist, cuff checklist,

you could see in every photo of them walk pg on the moon almost every page is coated in moon dust and traded to private entities for over $1 million. >> who can sell this moon swag has until recent been up in the air. ed mitchell, put the camera he used on apollo for auction in 2011, the space agency got involved. >> no charges were made against dr. mitchell. >> mitchell turned over the camera used to shoot this film to the smithsonian. but apollo astronauts pushed back. saying there was an informal agreement allowing them to hang onto their space souvenirs. and president obama quietly signed hr 4158 into law.

it allows apollo astronauts to keep and cash in on items they brought home. like this flag flown to the moon and this personal preference kit belonging to buzz aldrin. and this schematic flown to the lunar surface and signed by gene cernan the last man to walk on the moon. >> right now, space is the most popular collectible. >> bob eaton sells off space collectibles. >> the checklist that's what he used to drive the rover out. that's worth almost $400,000. then we sold another item which was the hand rotation control to land the lunar module on the surface over $600,000. >> hello everyone, welcome to the international spaits station.

mspace station. >> but the law did not benefit the other astronauts like clayton anderson. >> any of the stuff been up into space? >> actually, yes, this handrail. so you look here on the picture. you see a gold handrail. that's a similar handrail. not that one. but this was on the bottom of the lab module. >> anderson says he had to get special permission from nasa to keep the discarded rail from the space station. but from the joint russian mission he wasn't so lucky. >> i had worn my russian space suit, i asked through the probably channels if i could have the sokol suit gloves. they are specially made and have my initials written on the glove.

i asked for my gloves only and was denied. >> why do you think the gloves are now? >> they could be at a flea market in moscow, they could be used for training gloves. i have no idea. i was told, if i had the proper amount many of money, for $10,000 american, suit be on your porch. >> and then there are forgeries. >> neil armstrong is an iconic figure, basically a christopher columbus. >> he's an expert between the difference in real armstrong signatures and forgeries. a signed nasa picture is worth $4500. that's a forgery on the left. armstrong never signed over the flag on his space suit. >> forgeries are around simply because it's a quick dollar.

>> one especially lucrative stash of moon loot has landed in court. lunar bibles printed on microfilm. >> they were reproduced for the prayer league, people in and around the houston community who wanted to express their support for the spais program for their faith. they flew on apollo 13, hooufnt we have houstonwe have a proble. there were rumors that they were out on the surface of the room, they were not, they were in the personal preference kit of edgar mitchell. he gave them back to the prayer league. >> he's now in his 90s living in his nursing home. his collection of lunar bibles is the center of a custody bible. author occasionally hirsh

carol hirsh has 14 lunar bibles. the tak state of texas wants them back to pay for his care. she is under a gag order, the two sides are now in mediation. the stakes are high. lunar bibles have sold at auction for more than $50,000. proof one of the flights of the moon may be over, the price of souvenirs remains in orbit. adam may, al jazeera, houston . >> we will see how that story continues to take off. that's "america tonight." please tell us what you think at aljazeera.com/americatonight. you can talk to us on twitter or facebook and come back. we'll have more of "america tonight" tomorrow.

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