Posted on 02/10/2010 2:24:37 PM PST by Freedom56v2
At a ceremony at the White House on Tuesday, First Lady Michelle Obama announced the launch of the Lets Move campaign to end childhood obesity in the United States, an epidemic she said is costly and a threat to national security.
A recent study put the health care cost of obesity-related diseases at $147 billion a year, Mrs. Obama said. This epidemic also impacts the nations security, as obesity is now one of the most common disqualifiers for military service.
The ceremony, attended by many officials of President Barack Obamas cabinet, followed the signing earlier in the day of a presidential memorandum establishing a task force to study the problem and make recommendations after 90 days.
Obama announced a long list of goals she said she hopes the Lets Move campaign will accomplish, including many that can be done in a generation.
This isnt like a disease where were still waiting for a cure to be discovered we know the cure for this, Obama said. This isnt like putting a man on the moon or inventing the Internet. It doesnt take some stroke of genius or feat of technology.
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Thanks for pointing out. I actually did a title search and nothing was returned. Weird.
Dang. I was hoping the Lets Move Campaign involved her and Barry and Indonesia.
That fat slob has no right telling anyone what to eat!
Get ready for the Potato chip/donut federal tax,coming soon to a socialist republic near you.
the problem is that kids don’t want salmon whether it is farm raised or wild. Coconut oil? Not everyone likes the taste of coconut. They want their big macs and mac and cheese and all that other crap. The healthy stuff is also much more expensive.
Remember Hitler encouraged healthy living to. And we saw how that ended up.
Coconut oil is what made movie popcorn taste so good in the old days. The food police forced theaters to switch to canola oil, and now movie popcorn tastes like crap. Unless you cover it with lots of butter-flavored oil.
What I’m saying is that the notion of ‘healthy eating’ changes all the time. Whatever Michelle decides kids should eat now, is not necessarily any better for them than the stuff she’s replacing. Also, the school lunch program is just a government boondoggle to cycle through federal dollars. Kids would be eating healthier and less expensively if they were given McDonald’s Happy Meals for lunch instead of school cafeteria food.
Just temporarily, I'll bet. :)
Id get off the FR forum to help em move! ;)
Just temporarily, I’ll bet. :)
Remember Hitler encouraged healthy living to. And we saw how that ended up.
That’s about it! ;(
I do wonder what strings will inevitably be tied to the student loan program in the future. Very disturbing.
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No doubt the public schools will be recruited to *help* this cause by being forced to report obese children so parents can be contacted and *helped* in their efforts to trim their children’s weight.
You know what this means......
It’s just about more control. I don’t really think they’re concerned with how fit the worker bees are cause with unlimited immigration there will always be more to fill in the ranks.
Did I beat you in cynical?
A threat to our national security? No Michelle the people your husband is bowing to are a threat to our national security. Fat kids are not. Oops I said fat and that’s not very PC.
Freerepublic officially needs a like button!!!!! :)
I tried a search as well when I saw the article on FOX. It took me some time to find even this one.
FR’s search engine didn’t come up with anything. Google’s was better but still not easy.
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