Posted on 08/13/2009 8:12:14 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
President Obama's nominee for surgeon general, whose job it is to help encourage Americans to get thinner and healthier, has been working part time as a scientific adviser to the fast-food giant that sells sandwiches like the Whopper and BK Triple Stacker.
Dr. Regina Benjamin, hailed by Mr. Obama for her efforts in running a health clinic in hurricane-ravaged rural Alabama, has been paid $10,000 since last year for serving on a scientific advisory board for Burger King, according to newly filed public financial disclosures.
The documents do not specify the scientific issues on which Dr. Benjamin advised the fast-food company, and her medical office in Bayou La Batre, Ala., declined a request for an interview. Burger King officials said Dr. Benjamin served on the company's nutritional advisory panel, formed last summer as part of "ongoing efforts to promote balanced diets and active lifestyle choices."
The Edelman public relations firm, hired by Burger King, recommended Dr. Benjamin and other specialists to serve on the panel, an Edelman spokeswoman said Wednesday.
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I see two whoppers right there in the photo.
Apparently she might eat there, too.
You bad
Wasn’t Barry working as a “fries guy” there before he ran for office in Chicago?
I’ll take my health care with extra BACON!!!
The smoker in chief nominates for surgeon general an obese woman who was a Burger King adviser?
What role models.
Transitioning from the Burger King to the Liar King...
Tack $10,000 on to your value meal item order! We thought about stopping at a local BK on the way home from town today and chose another restaurant instead. It appears BK won't be our selection any time soon on any visit to town from here on in. There are plenty of dietitians looking for work who could have used the income who aren't attached at the hip to Obama. Is this an example of "stimulus jobs?"
If that’s her picture, it looks like the cheap bastards paid her in Big Macs.
I am getting so bad, myself, that I am laughing hysterically at your comment (and I am a woman whch really makes me BAD!) My first reaction was that this woman must have really been enjoying a discount in the whopper dept. but your comment takes the cake!
Food Tester
She is a fat cow with BIG CHOPPERS.
She is obese, so how can she give us advice when she is horrendously over weight?
As usual it's do as I SAY, not as I DO
as she PIGS OUT DAILY!
Or is Dr. Regina Benjamin PREGNANT?
I am now horsewhipping myself for even thinking about all the other places this could be taken but I'm sure someone will do it down thread.
Transitioning from the Burger King to the Liar King...
sorry...I meant Pharma King
That’s “you bad, girlfren”
Hopefully, her specialty is Whoppers and not toddler masturbation the way it was with Jocelyn Elders.
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