Posted on 02/26/2017 1:01:14 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
I'll give it a year.
Why put some farmer out of business??
Wonder what’s happening with Obama’s booze making machine??
Looks like all 3 aren’t missing too many meals.
“...who had expressed fears that Michelle Obama’s garden and the health and nutrition initiatives it symbolized ..”
Now that right there is some funny $hit. The neighborhood kids ALL hated Michael’s school food. So they ate more junk food the get “full”.
Research MDs are at a complete loss to come up with solutions. Type II diabetes among children due to obesity is off the charts. Fat and super fat adults abound in herds (check your local walmart or go to disneyworld).
Baractric surgery is the only stop-gap they can propose, (even for teenagers despite the lifelong consequences) and even though it has a high failure rate.
Processed food and Big Ag with their tobacco like advertising and purposeful addiction additives have blitzkrieged any capability to reverse much less control the pandemic. (Look up “Salt Sugar Fat”).
Look at any picture of kids in the fifties and compare. What changed?
Because of our processed poison food addiction we have passed the point of remedy. America and everyone but a few around you will get fatter and fatter. Obesity disabilities, astronomical health care costs to treat fatties as they age, and severely reduced availability space in seating and graveyards will be the norm.
Jes sayin.
So they’re going to try another tactic to trash Trump. These people have never done anything productive or useful in their lives.
In no way whatsoever does the US Constitution say that the federal government mandate food choices or exercise regimes.
Just because there are fast food places on every corner doesn't mean people need to eat there all the time.
Processed carbohydrates and sugar are the two worst enemies of your weight and health. Cut those out and you will lose weight and diabetes can be held at bay.
Personal story: I live in the country on a cattle farm outside of a small town. The biggest news last summer was the opening of a Love's Truck stop and a McDonalds on the highway, a few miles down the road from us. People I run into in town are shocked when they ask me if I've been there yet. I've not been there and won't....to eat. Maybe to get gas but not eat. But the place is full every time I drive by.
Some good news is that McDonalds is having sales problems and sees their business waining. They struggle with why. Too much competition for the fast-food pallet or changing lifestyles to become healthier? Let's hope it is the latter.
An article written about vegetables by a vegetable.
There is plenty of blame to go around. Not growing your own food or shopping at farm markets. Parents not cooking from scratch. The government/big ag processed poison food symbiosis. Effectiveness of advertising. Lack of proper nutrition in all commercial and institutional (including schools) settings.
How is a child individually responsible for the food diet his fatty parents provide?
You are right about the carbs and sugar, but reducing those don't always cure obesity.
Docs and the weight loss industry have been preaching individual responsibility forever to absolutely no effect whatsoever. That isn't an answer society wide.
All versions of processed food are basically a slow acting rat poison and humans are addicted to it.
KING CLAUDIUS
Now, Hamlet, where’s Polonius?
HAMLET
At supper.
KING CLAUDIUS
At supper! where?
HAMLET
Not where he eats, but where he is eaten: a certain
convocation of politic worms are e’en at him. Your
worm is your only emperor for diet: we fat all
creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for
maggots: your fat king and your lean beggar is but
variable service, two dishes, but to one table:
that’s the end.
KING CLAUDIUS
Alas, alas!
HAMLET
A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a
king, and cat of the fish that hath fed of that worm.
KING CLAUDIUS
What dost you mean by this?
HAMLET
Nothing but to show you how a king may go a
progress through the guts of a beggar.
Stopped reading right there. Assinine gets you nowhere, get your head out of yours, learn to be polite and then we might have an interesting exchange.
I didn't say "reducing" processed carbs and sugar would eliminate obesity. What I said was eliminating these items will cause one to lose weight and stay healthier. Without glucose to fuel the body's activities, your system will turn to burning fuel it has previously stored in your body as fat and you will lose weight.
Eating fats is not what makes you fat. Eating processed carbs and sugars that convert to glucose, is what causes you to get fat. Because that excess glucose, if not burned as fuel within 24-48 hours, is converted to fat and stored in your body.
In May of 2015, my doctor told me I had pre-diabetes. High triglycerides and low HDL cholesterol. Over the past year and a half, I have stopped my intake of processed foods and all sugars and starches from my diet completely. I have lost 105 pounds and am still losing. Pre-diabetic symptoms my doctor said I had, are now gone. All of my blood work is in normal ranges now. I can be done, but it takes personal responsibility and discipline to do it, not the government mandating it.
I don't have a problem with the government educating people on healthy foods, but I'm even skeptical that they can get that part right. The last time I checked, the USDA-recommended food pyramid, showed processed carbs should be eaten abundantly and fats sparingly. This is the exact opposite formula for losing weight and keeping obesity and diabetes in check.
Since you don't think personal responsibility works in a free society, maybe you would recommend the failed socialist Venezuela, where a report just recently said that the average weight loss in that country in the last year was 19 pounds per person, from scarcity or non-existence of foods in the markets because of government meddling.
I still believe that in a free republic (pun-intended), people should be the ones deciding what they want to eat or not, even if they don't always make the best choices. Getting the government any further involved in our lives is the wrong way to go.
Begs the question “Who did weed, water and fertilize the Wookie’s veggie patch”? And what did the taxpayers pay in salary for that “gardening”...?
For what was nothing but a brainwash publicity stunt and a series of photo ops for the fat-assed “first lady”...
Damned expensive zucchini, eh?
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