Posted on 07/14/2010 8:39:04 AM PDT by HandsOffMyFreedom
While addressing the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) this week, First Lady Michelle Obama declared obesity a threat to black Americans comparable to oppressive racial policies of the past. Instead of citing positive black role models who refuse to fall victim to a supposed threat that is ‘terrorizing’ their race, Mrs. Obama instigated another racial struggle for the civil rights organization to unnecessarily embed itself.
“We are living today in a time where we’re decades beyond slavery, we are decades beyond Jim Crow; when one of the greatest risks to our children’s future is their own health,” Mrs. Obama told the NAACP on July 12. “African American children are significantly more likely to be obese than are white children.”
One African American who did not allow herself to fall victim to the so called obesity ‘epidemic’ is Venus Williams, a professional tennis player who has won three Olympic gold medals and seven Grand Slam singles titles. Williams is a shining example of a black American child who thwarted the health threats posed by foods Mrs. Obama and her fellow food cops claim are this generation’s most notorious genocidal murderers.
In the July issue of Bon Appétit magazine, Williams shares her secrets for how she “fuels up for her work on and off the court.” Williams reveals she is not afraid of the poisonous foods that Mrs. Obama and radical food “watchdog” groups like the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) and the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) are waging war against.
“Ruth’s Chris is my favorite restaurant, and I always order the rib eye, medium-rare,” said Williams, which undoubtedly makes the anti-meat PCRM cringe in fear for the tennis star’s life. According to the PCRM ...
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Excellent point.In fact that can be taken a lot further by saying "I'm waiting to see pictures of a fat person *anywhere* taken 100 years ago".
Obesity is a "disease" of affluence.It's only fairly recently that you could find fat people anywhere.And in less affluent parts of the world you *still* can't find them.
I think he meant no pictures of the Obamination
Wow, this article couldn't be more idiotic and devoid of reason and logic, even if that was the author's intent. Really, it's about as anti-intellectual as you can get.
Venus Williams is a professional athlete who participates in a HIGHLY anaerobic sport. Like Michael Phelps, I would guess that Venus has to consume something north of 5-6K calories a day in order to not lose weight. Setting her as some kind of example of the black community - or any community - is almost retarded, because her activity level dwarfs the average American.
Americans are FAT. Anyone who spends anytime abroad, and then comes back here, knows that we're fat. And, the more we understand and educate our population about the dangers of some kinds of meat, of some kinds of fat, of excessive refined sugars in our diets and excessive portions, the better our collective health will become - and the lower our medical costs will be.
Obesity kills - it kills WAY more than guns, drunk drivers, murderers, terrorist - or any number of other dangerous activities or people that we get so worked up over. If Michelle Obama goes to the NAACP and tells them that black people are fat because they have horrible diets - she's right - and good for her.
You’re not allowed to say that here.
FReepers will jump on you that it’s simply “calorie in/calorie out”
Carbs are a big deal AND lack of certain vitamins. Refined sugars and HFCS are awful. Whole grains need to be championed too (carbs are better if some get pooed out)
If it were just calorie in/calorie out, everyone would be thin.
I'll leave out the pic of Michelle Obama, because I don't believe one exception proves the rule, but there are lots of black women who are beautiful and not overweight, along with many who are overweight but still beautiful. Michelle Obama needs to mind her own business and keep quiet a little more.
Maybe we don’t want to live until someone has to feed us our strained peas with a spoon.
OH! I agree there.
I’ve read that many professional athletes gain a ton when they quit playing. Even a respectable level of working out and exercising can’t approach the massive exertions demanded of a life on the gridiron.
I’m thinking the recent explosion of monstrous obesity in recent years is a combination of the internet, proliferating cable channels, handheld electronic entertainment doodads (and the commensurate lack of sleep and correspondingly deranged appetite), the microwave and the disappearance of family dining.
TV, Fast food and junk food have been around for a half-century, it’s these recent developments that have made the difference.
Sure that's an intelligent retort. /s
I don't want to live until someone has to feed me, so I'm going to balloon to 300 lbs. Good luck with that. Hopefully Darwin will work his magic before you reproduce.
Mrs. Obama also told the NAACP on July 12 - “Many of you probably grew up like I did — in a community that wasn’t rich, not even middle class..” “In these kind of strong African American communities, we went to neighborhood schools around the corner. So many of us had to walk to and from school every day, rain or shine. I know you’ve told that story. (Laughter.) And in Chicago, where I was raised, we did it in the dead of winter. (Laughter.) No shoes on our feet — it was hard, but we walked! (Applause.)”
Hardly humble: Michelle’s childhood home in Chicago
“Michelle was from a middle-class family,” confirmed one of her long-time friends, Angela Acree.
“She came from a regular family. They had a nice home. It wasn’t a mansion, but it was just fine. It was a decent neighbourhood.”
No one could pretend they were rich and it is true that her father, Frasier Robinson, spent some time as a maintenance worker for Chicago’s Department of Water Management.
However, he was a good deal more than the labourer that many seem to imagine.
Indeed, according to family friends, Michelle’s father was a volunteer organiser for the city’s Democratic Party, a by-word for machine politics in America, and his loyalty was rewarded with a well-paid engineering job at Chicago’s water plant. Even before overtime, he earned $42,686 - 25 per cent more than High School teachers at the time.
I would suggest that the lunacy being produced by the members of the Obama Administration, their minions and lickspittles is just what you get when a group recognizes that everybody is on to their con and even their friends start looking at them cross-wise. You get hysterical reactions, especially from those not really toughened up by actual experience.
It’s a good sign, in other words.
That's certainly been the case for me.I was sent to a dietitian a few years ago because my doctor insisted that I lose 30 pounds (diabetes,hypertension).I told her about my diet and she nearly fainted.She said,in no uncertain terms,"TOO MANY CARBS".Soon after that visit I tried Atkins (although she never mentioned it) and the pounds melted off of me.After about 4 months I was off all diabetes meds and I was down to the minimum dose of one blood pressure medication.The cardiologist said that that's often what happens in cases like mine.
Yep. Hispanics eat a lot of corn-based stuff. I definitely believe in the high-protein, low-carb diet. My only point of wonderment is how Asians can eat so much rice and still stay so thin. I've seen Chinese guys that actually work at like a Panda Express or something, and at lunch break they'd get a huge bowl of rice and just shovel it down, day after day. (I used to work at the mall.) And they were skinny little dudes! I don't get it...
How is that? Racism involves a belief of superiority of your race over that of another. You can offend, insult and make observations all day long and it doesn't make you a racist.
Besides, Decks, even though her hubby may be a bit of a pansy (or a lot), those guns of hers come in handy when she and Moms have to straighten the commie twerp out.
You know, part of the problem in this country is that when something is shown to aid weight loss, it’s pulled off the market as unsafe.
People have been using Ma Huang for centuries in the east to lose weight. It’s illegal here.
Tons of people quit smoking and boom, gain weight. They could eat more when the nicotine picked up their metabolism.
Getting older slows your metabolism too.
Every time something comes along for weight loss it’s suddenly a huge danger.
I don't know about *all* such medications but in the case of Fen-phen it was pulled off the market because it was shown to cause major heart damage.
“Two buttocks enter, one buttocks leave.”
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