At the Senator's Side, a 'Nag' for Good Health

NY Times ^ | 10.3.2004 | Lawrence K. Altman

[NYC GOP Chick]

October 3, 2004

At the Senator's Side, a 'Nag' for Good Health

By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN

eresa Heinz Kerry's friends often call her Dr. T because of her no-nonsense counsel on health matters. "I tell them what questions to ask the doctor," she said, adding that she urges them "to take notes."

"That's what I did with my husband," Mrs. Heinz Kerry said in a recent interview, referring to Senator John Kerry, the Democratic presidential nominee. In the interview, she talked about how she has changed his diet and suggested tests that he should get at his annual checkups.

"A woman or somebody in the family has got to kind of shepherd these things," said Mrs. Heinz Kerry, a doctor's daughter who used to follow her father on hospital rounds in Mozambique.

"Generally, men don't take very good care of themselves," she added. "They don't like to deal with stuff that gets in the way; it's their nature." Sometimes, Mrs. Heinz Kerry said, she is "just a nag."

She has worked hard, she said, to educate her husband "to eat smart" - and to break him of his habit of eating pasta, ice cream, and "bags of chocolate chip cookies from the Faneuil Hall market in Boston that are full of butter."

"He always did eat salad, but he wouldn't cooked greens," she said. "Now he always has broccoli and loves Brussels sprouts." He also eats more salads and tomatoes, green peas, lentils, beans and other vegetables, she said.

And, Mrs. Heinz Kerry disclosed, she has instructed her husband in how to cook healthy foods. "I taught him, although he doesn't do it when I'm not there, to make really easy, very good vegetable soups and puree them, just put vegetable broth or chicken broth, and how to season them."

[NYC GOP Chick]

I'm gonna assume that nobody wants photos of the castrating bitch, right?

[Darkwolf377]

That makes TWO nags.

[Mike Bates]

Michael M. Bates: My Side of the Swamp

[Dan from Michigan]

Sometimes, Mrs. Heinz Kerry said, she is "just a nag."

I couldn't last a week with someone like that. I'd run to the hills.

Besides, Hanoi John's a stickboy anyway.

[NYC GOP Chick]

This confirms my suspicions that she's a domineering, hen-pecking broad who makes Hillary appear to be a demure, loving hausfrau in comparison.

[wagglebee]

This confirms my suspicions that she's a domineering, hen-pecking broad who makes Hillary appear to be a demure, loving hausfrau in comparison.

Nothing will ever improve my opinion of Hitlery.

[Fintan]

...break him of his habit of eating pasta, ice cream, and "bags of chocolate chip cookies from the Faneuil Hall market in Boston that are full of butter."

"He always did eat salad, but he wouldn't cooked greens," she said. "Now he always has broccoli and loves Brussels sprouts." He also eats more salads and tomatoes, green peas, lentils, beans and other vegetables, she said.

And, Mrs. Heinz Kerry disclosed, she has instructed her husband in how to cook healthy foods. "I taught him, although he doesn't do it when I'm not there, to make really easy, very good vegetable soups and puree them, just put vegetable broth or chicken broth, and how to season them."

 

I'm sure the "little people", the "poor", the downtrodden masses, and union members sitting in their Barcoloungers slugging down Budweisers and Oreos will relate to John F. Kerry's jaded (and expensive) digestive tract.

[mk2000]

Isn't this just just beautiful Ah the love in the air at the Times, can't you just smell the lovefest between the Times and The Kerry's.

[elli1]

And, Mrs. Heinz Kerry disclosed, she has instructed her husband in how to cook healthy foods. ''I taught him, although he doesn't do it when I'm not there, to make really easy, very good vegetable soups and puree them, just put vegetable broth or chicken broth, and how to season them.''

After the Family Circle Pumpkin Spice Cookie recipe fiasco, we're supposed to believe that Teresa cooks?

[Jaysun]

Teresa Heinz Kerry's friends often call her Dr. T because of her no-nonsense counsel on health matters.

She's just full of that celebrated "no-nonsense counsel" isn't she? I'm sure her they have landfill full of nicknames for her.

Crazy B
Sister Sickie
Lady Ludicrous
Lippy Longstocking
Duchess of Disorder

[OldFriend]

TTTMI

[Canticle_of_Deborah]

Nothing wrong with pasta and butter in moderation. The food terrorists are out of control.

[Dan from Michigan]

This confirms my suspicions that she's a domineering, hen-pecking broad who makes Hillary appear to be a demure, loving hausfrau in comparison

I couldn't deal with someone like either of them. RAOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!

LOL. The perfect song is on my internet radio station right now. Live version of Pink Floyd's "Run Like Hell"

[Darksheare]

*horrified screams*

[Gabz]

GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

If she's the definition of a "nag" as a wife - my husband will never have a thing to worry about with me!!!!!!!

[ArmyBratCutie]

The NYT cant get enuff of those two can they? to run this silly thing as if we care what they eat, unless its their own lying words hahahahaha

[Wonderama]

The times forgot to mention she makes his spa appointments, when he needs his monthly botox injections.

[blanknoone]

I would need to see this in better context, but given her past references did anyone else question whether "That's what I did with my husband,"

was really a reference to Sen. Heinz rather than Sen. Kerry?

[NYC GOP Chick]

Ha! That's what I thought at first!