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Michelle Obama prodding restaurants to reduce portion size
The Chicago Sun-Times ^ | September 14, 2011 | Lynn Sweet

Posted on 09/14/2011 1:46:57 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

WASHINGTON-- First Lady Michelle Obama is expected Thursday to announce headway in her drive to have restaurants reduce portion sizes, part of her "Let's Move' campaign against obesity.

"The Childhood Obesity Task Force Report"--commissioned as part of Mrs. Obama's "Let's Move" project, "specifically calls on restaurants to, "consider their portion sizes, improve children's menus, and make healthy options the default choice whenever possible." below, from White House....

UPCOMING GUIDANCE FOR FIRST LADY MICHELLE OBAMA

Thursday, September 15 11:45 AM - First Lady Michelle Obama will make a major Let's Move! announcement related to providing healthier choices and greater variety for families in restaurants - a critical piece of ending the epidemic of childhood obesity in a generation. One of every two dollars spent on food is spent in restaurants, and over one-third of calories consumed in America are eaten at restaurants. The Childhood Obesity Task Force Report specifically calls on restaurants to, "consider their portion sizes, improve children's menus, and make healthy options the default choice whenever possible." This event will be held in Hyattsville, MD and space is limited.


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To: 2ndDivisionVet

101 posted on 09/14/2011 5:39:54 PM PDT by clearcarbon
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To: itssme

Whether she said that or not, just the fact that it’s BELIEVABLE she said it. Her scorn for this country is well-known, and usually her handlers try to keep her out of the limelight. I’m sure she’d be more than willing to come out full-fledged, ala Hillary.


102 posted on 09/14/2011 5:40:55 PM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: Sacajaweau
Tell her to open her own restaurant...

Nailed it. But that would require one of the 0bama's to actually open and run a business and have some business sense.

Ha!

103 posted on 09/14/2011 5:42:42 PM PDT by A message
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

>Michelle Obama prodding restaurants to reduce portion size<

And of course she’s also reminding them to reduce the price of that portion accordingly. < /Sarcasm>


104 posted on 09/14/2011 5:51:30 PM PDT by Darnright (There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive. - Tacitus)
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To: P.O.E.
Watch the video on youtube and see moochelle mouth the words, “all this for a flag”, while shaking her head in disapproval. No doubt she said it. It all fits.
105 posted on 09/14/2011 5:57:48 PM PDT by itssme
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

All this to make her appear as if she cares.


106 posted on 09/14/2011 6:01:17 PM PDT by bmwcyle (Obama is a Communist, a Muslim, and an illegal alien)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Her ass has its own zip code and she lectures the rest of us. She has 2500 calorie lunches and she lectures the rest of us. I really despise hypocrites.


107 posted on 09/14/2011 6:02:58 PM PDT by ronnyquest (I spent 20 years in the Army fighting the enemies of freedom only to see fascism elected at home.)
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To: ronnyquest

Hey, mooch-elle. I know you’re reading this, you worn-out grifter. Shut your fat pie hole and leave the rest of us alone. You are the last person anyone (including children) need “guidance” from. Go to your room, eat your large portion ribs and bowl of fries and STFU. Did you ever consider this is supposedly the “...land of the free”?


108 posted on 09/14/2011 6:06:33 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
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109 posted on 09/14/2011 6:30:25 PM PDT by mojitojoe (WH says potus didn’t feel the earthquake. No worries. Another is scheduled for November 2012)
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To: arderkrag
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110 posted on 09/14/2011 6:34:04 PM PDT by mojitojoe (WH says potus didn’t feel the earthquake. No worries. Another is scheduled for November 2012)
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To: presently no screen name

I wondered the same thing. The only people I know that go bat sh*t crazy when someone makes fun of that big, fat thang in the WH is DUmmies and other libs.


111 posted on 09/14/2011 6:36:43 PM PDT by mojitojoe (WH says potus didn’t feel the earthquake. No worries. Another is scheduled for November 2012)
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To: mojitojoe

Another successful heavy lift.


112 posted on 09/14/2011 6:37:53 PM PDT by 11Bush
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To: LouAvul
". . . most stupid human being to ever occupy the White House. And that includes the servants."

Excluding her personal staff the "servants" will still be employed in two years.

113 posted on 09/14/2011 6:43:35 PM PDT by synbad600
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I cannot wait until the First Dude introduces his
“Let’s Hunt!” initiative.

RUN SARAH RUN


114 posted on 09/14/2011 6:51:25 PM PDT by TheConservativeParty (PALIN 45 -The cure for "meet the new boss, same as the old boss." Sarah Palin 2012 "Not For Sale!")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

That vegetable garden is too big even for that mealy mouthed family.


115 posted on 09/14/2011 6:55:35 PM PDT by eaglestar
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Reduce your own portion size, Mooshelle


116 posted on 09/14/2011 7:02:10 PM PDT by F15Eagle (1 John 5:4-5, 4:15, 5:13; John 3:17-18, 6:69, 11:25, 14:6, 20:31; Rom10:8-11; 1 Tim 2:5; Titus 3:4-5)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Isn't it interesting that previous First Ladies were involved with efforts that had some intellectual or cultural benefits:

Eleanor Roosevelt traveled around the country for her husband, authored a weekly newspaper column and hosted a radio show. Jacqueline Kennedy engaged in an expansive campaign to restore the White House. Lady Bird Johnson pioneered environmental protection and beautification; Pat Nixon promoted volunteerism; Betty Ford supported women's' rights; Rosalynn Carter aided those with mental disabilities; Nancy Reagan founded the "Just Say No" drug awareness campaign; Barbara Bush promoted literacy; Hillary Rodham Clinton sought to reform the healthcare system in the U.S.; and Laura Bush supported women's' rights groups and encouraged childhood literacy.

Michelle Obama has focused her efforts on food--figuratively and literally.

117 posted on 09/14/2011 7:04:50 PM PDT by CitizenM (Obama's legacy will be to be remembered as The architect of the decline of the USA)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Throw out the trash 2012


118 posted on 09/14/2011 7:07:19 PM PDT by Crucial
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“First Lady Michelle Obama is expected Thursday to announce headway in her drive to have restaurants reduce portion sizes”

Well unless she’s eating there. Then supersize it.


119 posted on 09/14/2011 7:09:21 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: maggief
Judging by the size of the gaping hole in her burger, Michelle is ready to take bite #2.
120 posted on 09/14/2011 7:09:41 PM PDT by JPG (Palin '12)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Michelle needs to keep her nose out of our kitchens and lives. She needs to look in a mirror.


121 posted on 09/14/2011 7:13:26 PM PDT by Grey Eagle
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To: mojitojoe

Moochelle returns to the hangar after the C-17 cargo door finally found something that would not fit through its massive opening.


122 posted on 09/14/2011 7:14:04 PM PDT by waus (FUBO UFCMF, Just in case I stuttered, FUBO)
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To: TheConservativeParty

Just thinking about that and the First Dude - it seems like a different world - normalcy, patriotism, cut the gov’t and some agencies, companies hiring, wall street goes up, investigations of the former administration, children being giving hope for their future, no death panels for the elderly - America has been rescued and then restored. It is all possible.

Go SARAH!


123 posted on 09/14/2011 7:14:28 PM PDT by presently no screen name
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I can tell by the size of her butt she does not mean that to apply to HER portions!


124 posted on 09/14/2011 7:18:26 PM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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To: Hodar

“Cut my serving; and I’ll go somewhere else to eat next time.”

Cut my serving of veggies, good meat, and a nice starch and I’ll be much more likely to fill the gap with a sugary, fat-loaded dessert and the rest of the rolls and butter.

Socialists have always had trouble with humans making choices.


125 posted on 09/14/2011 7:22:21 PM PDT by DBrow
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Gastronomic Civil Disobedience is an American tradition!

Eff YOU Michelle! Buahahahahahahahahaha!

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126 posted on 09/14/2011 7:23:35 PM PDT by Candor7 (Obama fascist info..http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: waus

LMAO!!!!


127 posted on 09/14/2011 7:31:25 PM PDT by mojitojoe (WH says potus didn’t feel the earthquake. No worries. Another is scheduled for November 2012)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Michelle Obama prodding restaurants to reduce portion size

She should have lunch with Ben Bernanke. The Fed has a better way of getting restaurants to reduce their portion size ;)

128 posted on 09/14/2011 7:36:26 PM PDT by danielmryan
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Here is what Michelle recently had to eat at Shake Shack, whilst she prods restaurants to reduce portion sizes ...

BTW: She ALSO had a Shake Shack Milkshake with that ...

129 posted on 09/14/2011 7:42:09 PM PDT by Lmo56 (If ya wanna run with the big dawgs - ya gotta learn to piss in the tall grass ...)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Hey, big butt Michelle, it is not illegal to take home the food you don’t it at the restaurant and make another meal of two out of it. There is a $13.95 dish at a local Mexican restaurant that I get that makes at least two more meals for me at home.


130 posted on 09/14/2011 7:53:31 PM PDT by doug from upland (Just in case, it has been reserved: www.TheBitchIsBack2012.com)
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To: freedumb2003

Michelle’s butt is as large as the combined posteriors of the two hotties.


131 posted on 09/14/2011 7:55:28 PM PDT by doug from upland (Just in case, it has been reserved: www.TheBitchIsBack2012.com)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The plentiful posterior making it’s way up the steps to board AF-1 = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXko_vPA3HM&NR=1


132 posted on 09/14/2011 8:26:21 PM PDT by doug from upland (Just in case, it has been reserved: www.TheBitchIsBack2012.com)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
STFU you stooopid fat cow you....
133 posted on 09/14/2011 8:47:35 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“Let’s Move”? How about Obummer and Moochele adopt this slogan themselves and “move” right out of the WH and back to Chicago.


134 posted on 09/14/2011 9:14:50 PM PDT by hsalaw
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Somebody should “prod” Michele to “reduce her portion size”.

What kind of prod, I won’t say, but...!


135 posted on 09/14/2011 9:31:08 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: presently no screen name

And just who, do you suppose, is going to listen to her?


136 posted on 09/14/2011 9:31:48 PM PDT by ourworldawry
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To: A message
that would require one of the 0bama's to actually open and run a business and have some business sense

That would necessitate those lazy ghetto shuckin' and jiven grifters to get off their lazy fat butts and do some work. Never happen. They've hit the motherload and will milk us until they die. And that's liable to be a long, long time.

137 posted on 09/14/2011 9:46:02 PM PDT by LouAvul
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To: Sacajaweau

“You can get anything you want at Fatass’s Restaurant”


138 posted on 09/14/2011 10:32:14 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat
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To: dragonblustar

What event was that pic taken from?


139 posted on 09/14/2011 11:05:59 PM PDT by Netizen (Path to citizenship = Scamnesty. If you give it away, more will come. Who's pilfering your wallet?)
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To: dragonblustar

Nevermind, I see its photoshopped.


140 posted on 09/14/2011 11:29:00 PM PDT by Netizen (Path to citizenship = Scamnesty. If you give it away, more will come. Who's pilfering your wallet?)
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To: All

This woman is trying to get restaurants to give us less food for our money? Well that’s real nice of you moochelle. Found a really good way to spend your time as first lady huh?


141 posted on 09/14/2011 11:54:59 PM PDT by kelly4c
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To: Sacajaweau

There are few people who are getting fat by eating restaurant food. Most people don’t have that kind of money to be eating out all the time. This is another case of the liberal mind living in the fantasy world of the unicorn farm.

Hey, Michelle! Get a grip. You are the pot calling the kettle black.


142 posted on 09/15/2011 1:32:31 AM PDT by jonrick46 (2012 can't come soon enough.)
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To: NautiNurse

(Pictures of Me-shelle Obigmouthmama eating and drinking).

Honest to gosh - does anyone remember seeing any of our other first ladies photographed while eating?
Just what is MO attempting to telegraph???

I hope the Restaurant Association comes out soon with a negative response to MO’s ‘suggested’ portion size.
And sends out an edict banning her from all restaurants for 5 years, and makes her repent.

P U S H B A C K - TELL HER OFF.


143 posted on 09/15/2011 3:58:05 AM PDT by USARightSide
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To: Dick Bachert

LOL!


144 posted on 09/15/2011 4:45:09 AM PDT by proud American in Canada (To paraphrase Sarah Palin: "I love when the liberals get all wee-wee'd up.")
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To: waus; 2ndDivisionVet; Chode
"My apologizes to The Beatles. Moochelle, my cowbell." ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ This is why I love you guys!!!! Cowbell Pictures, Images and Photos
145 posted on 09/15/2011 5:09:36 AM PDT by Morgana (I don't speak much...............but when I do....)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Related...

Alinsky, Narcissism, Ridicule and laughter!!!!!

GyG Never Laugh At A Narcissist!

BING It!


146 posted on 09/15/2011 5:34:04 AM PDT by gunnyg ("A Constitution changed from Freedom, can never be restored; Liberty, once lost, is lost forever...)
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To: freedumb2003
Hey I recognize that outfit!


147 posted on 09/15/2011 6:17:25 AM PDT by Zeppelin (Keep on FReepin' on...)
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To: mojitojoe

Best picture of all.

New AF1?


148 posted on 09/15/2011 6:26:13 AM PDT by left that other site (Psalm 122:6)
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To: dragonblustar

“Big bottoms....Big bottoms....Talk about bum cakes, Moochelle’s got ‘em....”


149 posted on 09/15/2011 7:40:17 AM PDT by NRA1995 (Obama's presidency is shovel-ready; let's bury it in 2012!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Michelle’s husband’s policies have accomplished this.

Restaurants have been reducing portions in order to keep prices consistent. So have general food companies.

Mission accomplished.


150 posted on 09/15/2011 8:01:38 AM PDT by CriticalJ (Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress.. But then I repeat myself. MT)
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