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Why Donald Trump’s diet is bad for America’s health (barf alert)
WaPo ^

Posted on 06/28/2017 1:22:02 PM PDT by Stopthethreat

It was the fat joke heard ‘round the world. Pope Francis, speaking with Donald and Melania Trump during their recent visit, asked the first lady whether she’d been feeding her husband potica, a rich Slovenian dessert.

His Holiness wasn’t the only one eyeballing the president’s diet. Recently, the public learned that the White House kitchen staff knows to deliver their boss extra Thousand Island dressing and a double serving of ice cream while his guests get vinaigrette and a single scoop of vanilla, triggering sniggers about presidential gluttony.

And since Trump so shamelessly slings stingingly personal insults tied to fitness and body type — from “Miss Piggy” to “fat pig” to “Little Marco” – why resist the urge to poke his proverbial soft underbelly?

We should resist, because Trump’s attitudes toward healthy eating and exercise aren’t a joke — they have serious consequences for the nation’s health. First, they mark a dramatic pivot from his presidential predecessors on both sides of the aisle. Previous presidents saw projecting a personal embrace of healthy living as politically attractive, while Trump perceives just the opposite.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Humor
KEYWORDS: orthorexia
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To: nickcarraway

The White House has a complete cooking staff. Before that I assume that they had chefs in all their homes.


41 posted on 06/28/2017 2:19:17 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: Stopthethreat

Considering his level of energy at his age, it might just be he knows somethings about diet and exercises that this never been anything no body at the Wa Po doesn’t.


42 posted on 06/28/2017 2:24:18 PM PDT by MNJohnnie ("The political class is a bureaucracy designed to perpetuate itself" Rush Limbaugh)
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To: rockvillem

I would bet that President Trump has already logged more WORKING HOURS since his inauguration, than 0bama actually worked in his first term.


43 posted on 06/28/2017 2:39:01 PM PDT by NEMDF
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To: atc23

My mothers father started smoking when he was 13, started drinking soon afterword. Because he grew up in Maritime Canada he ate salt cod and potatoes fried in bacon grease.

He was gassed in 1915 with the Canadian Forces in France. Worked as a Carpenter and later as a painter spraying lead paint on GE turbines, He retired and died at 87.

He was sick for a week one time, got sick of the hospital and walked out ten years before he died sitting in a chair drinking a high ball.


44 posted on 06/28/2017 2:41:38 PM PDT by Little Bill (VN 65 - 68)
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To: atc23

My mothers father started smoking when he was 13, started drinking soon afterword. Because he grew up in Maritime Canada he ate salt cod and potatoes fried in bacon grease.

He was gassed in 1915 with the Canadian Forces in France. Worked as a Carpenter and later as a painter spraying lead paint on GE turbines, He retired and died at 87.

He was sick for a week one time, got sick of the hospital and walked out ten years before he died sitting in a chair drinking a high ball.


45 posted on 06/28/2017 2:42:38 PM PDT by Little Bill (VN 65 - 68)
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To: Stopthethreat

I’m Catholic. I really miss John Paul II.


46 posted on 06/28/2017 5:06:03 PM PDT by lizma2
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