Palin's reckless views on obesity (barf alert)

cnn.com ^ | November 24, 2010 | Roland S. Martin

[dr_who]

It's clear that we can't go 24 hours without Sarah Palin saying something so stupid that it defies logic, but leave it to the Kim Kardashian of politics to find something wrong with first lady Michelle Obama's effort to curb obesity in America's kids.

In a radio interview on Wednesday with conservative talker Laura Ingraham, Palin took dead aim at the first lady's "Let's Move" initiative, which is all about getting children active and involved in exercise and healthy eating.

[RushLake]

What is wrong with YOU alerting yourself to the importance of YOU providing better meals to YOUR kids and keeping the GD education aristocracy out of YOUR and OUR business? Why don’t YOU and all those like YOU that are so weak that YOU need the aristocrats to control YOUR chidren’s lives in total grow a set (figuratively or literally) and take charge of YOUR own life?

[raybbr]

The creator of that “shop” is a FReeper. I forget who.

[Stepan12]

All this talk from the government about obesity and its harmful effects. Why not any talk from the government about homosexuality and its harmful effects? And what about the method homosexuals use to reproduce, too? Ask Jesse Dirkhising (oops! You can't because he is dead by two homosexuals)!

[RichInOC]

Eliminate world hunger and obesity...feed the obese to the starving.

[Moose4]

VERY not guilty, not guilty, life without parole.

}:-)4

[pnh102]

Also, how will we maintain a viable military if so many potential recruits are fat and out of condition?

Wouldn't it stand to reason that most people who are interested in joining the military would be inclined to be in good physical shape because that is needed for the job? They would not need the government to tell them get into shape.

[Judith Anne]

What is wrong with a first lady alerting us to the importance of US urging our schools to provide better meals for OUR children?

Why are the SCHOOLS in charge of student nutrition for 2/3 of kids' meals? My grandkids make their own school lunches, btw, because their parents work. Should the schools be in charge of what they put in a brown paper sack?

What is wrong with trying to interest children and families in growing their own gardens?

Because food from a garden is seasonal. You've never grown a garden, or you'd know that there's nothing in the average temperate zone North American garden in November, December, January, February, or March, and very little in any garden in April.

Also, how will we maintain a viable military if so many potential recruits are fat and out of condition?

Do you know ANYTHING about basic training?

By the way, I wonder if some are advocating that Purina do research on human nutritional needs, and then make People Chow so all those dietary mistakes can be avoided, we'll all have smooth skin and glossy hair, and optimum growth and activity can be maintained? Heck, Monkey Chow is likely close to what we "need." Just tweak it a little. As soon as toddlers get teeth, they can start eating dry food and drinking water. We need an INFANTS, YOUTHS AND ADOLESCENTS FOOD CZAR. /extreme dripping sarcasm

[TexasCajun]

I think Rollie is just jealous of Reggie Love!

[Diogenesis]

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[momtothree]

“...what is wrong?”

For one thing, it isn’t the government’s business. It is the parents and their pediatricians. Another idea is the government isn’t going to “interest” people into talks about healthy eating. It is going to CONTROL eating in order for it to be “healthy”. If we are really talking about controlling people for the military, we have become some sort of country that only views its citizens as potential military. I have never known drill instructors personally; however, I think they are well trained to make our military as fit as possible. Just a thought.

[RoadTest]

“It’s clear that we can’t go 24 hours without Sarah Palin saying something so stupid that it defies logic”

I think you have the excellent and INTELLIGENT former Governor Sarah Palin mixed up with that freeloader in the White House married to that other government housing recipient, the Whiner-in-Chief. She’s the one saying vapid things about food.

[Humal]

This whole thing is a fake. See Michelle Malkin’s article from January
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2428492/posts

snd Laura Ingraham’s also from January http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2420687/posts

Somewhere I read that the ground keepers actually did the hard work on the garden, and another agency (Forestry Service??) “salted” the garden with the vegetables for her to pick in front of the cameras. The cost of making & maintaining this garden ran into the hundreds of thousands of dollars. I can buy fresh vegetables much cheaper than that without the work.

[southphilly]

Because he kids won't eat it...put a million salad bars in school, the kids will go right past it....I went to lunch at school with my grand kids. The lunch room server, put a large heaping spoon of green beans and collard greens on each plate..I looked at her while holding my “small” plate, She said to me “I have to put the vegetables on their plates”.
After lunch I saw almost %100 of the kids dump the food it the trash can...my grand kids said the food is yukky..I tasted the green beans...no seasoning, just out of a big can.

BTW...if you want to know why we have busing in schools....the school districts get Federal money based on how many kids are eligible for free lunches....that is why they put the veggies on the plate, they must serve them, even though the end up in the trash can.

My grand kids always bring their lunches from home, but this day was “bring a parent or grandparent to lunch day”

This bringas me back to myself as a child in elementary school (I am 74 years old) when we received free lunch, it was so gross I trash canned it...times do not change..when it comes to UNIONS...

It's the UNIONS STUPID”

[gleeaikin]

I don’t know how dumb or ignorant I am, but I did manage to raise a son who is almost finished with his 20 in Special Forces, and at age 40 has never had a cavity. I did feed him very carefully in the years before he went to school, and at home afterwards. He did eat the school lunches, but the rest kept him healthy and strong. I also served for 4 years on a mayoral Commission for Food, Nutrition and Health, so I am not unaware of the public feeding nutrition problems. I absolutely agree we need physical ed is schools again.

[gleeaikin]

I see the gloves Michelle is wearing are dirty. Can you tell me where to find child sized gardening gloves?

[gleeaikin]

“You’ve never grown a garden.”

Hah, a lot you know. When I was coming home from kindergarden in 1943, I found my father, and a man with a horse and plow tearing up the large yard. For the next 11 years we grew about 50 kinds and varieties of vegetables and fruit. I raked, fertilized, planted, weeded, weeded, weeded, picked, pared, and canned. When my friends came by to ask me to play, I said “Dad says I have to work in the garden with him.” At least when there was a surplus he let me sell some and keep the money.

I do intend to take a good look at Senate 510. I testified at hearings 37 years ago when the Hosmer Bill was going to try to restrict our right to buy vitamins and other supplements. There are many kids so unfit they can’t even get into the military. And I know about basic training from my son who has done basic training, the 82nd Airborne, Special Forces, Iraq and Afghanistan. Also I have read 5 books by W.E.B. Griffin, and other military writers to better understand my son.

Regarding seasons. Just because you cannot garden 12 months, it doesn’t devalue the months you can. Also, things like brussels sprouts, cabbage, rutabegas, and turnips can be picked into Nov. and Dec. and stored for use in the winter along with potatoes, sweet and white. Starting indoors and with cold frames, gardening begins in February, and can go outside in March. In fact I plan to grow radishes this winter in a south facing indoor window box. I eat the roots and then the greens in soup. Have you ever tried growing sprouts? They make a good addition in winter.

Would People Chow be worse than the Pop Tarts and Froot Loops that companies like Purina already make and con our kids into begging us to buy? GET A GRIP!!

[Judith Anne]

Pretty lame defense of your gardening knowledge. Did you ever eat, year round, only the food you had grown, preserved, shot and caught? It’s SEASONAL, takes huge amount of planning and work, and frankly, I see no mention of fruit trees, berries, nuts, grains and squash. Diet is more than arugala and chives, brainiac.

[cynwoody]

The creator of that “shop” is a FReeper. I forget who.

Fake but accurate!

[Blue Highway]

womens size small is close enough to kids work gloves. better than nothing, eh?

[gleeaikin]

I guess you failed to notice that I said we grew 50 kinds and varieties of vegetables and fruit, and preserved them for winter. Never did arugula or chives. Foods we canned included corn, beans, peas, squash, spinach, swiss chard, tomatoes, pears, applesauce, grape, blackberry, rhubarb and raspberry jelly and jam. Foods we held in a cold place included, onions, cabbage, squash, turnips, radishes, rutabegas, kohlrabi, brussels sprouts, potatoes. We grew several different varieties of corn, beans, tomatoes, onions, squash. Then there were the foods we didn't preserve like cucumbers, and parsley and mint which we dried. Since we were only 2 miles from New York City, we did not go hunting, although my father had lived out west for 3 years during the Depression and hunted his own meat. When I was a child my father had a job so he bought meat and grain foods, and yes, it was a lot of work, shared by my mother who did not have a job, my father and me. Also since when does one have to grow and eat all one's food to have gardening knowledge? One can learn a lot in 11 years.