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Restaurant Nutrition Draws Focus of First Lady
The New York Times ^ | February 6, 2011 | Sheryl Gay Stolberg and William Neuman

Posted on 02/06/2011 6:42:25 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

After wrapping her arms around the retail giant Wal-Mart and trying to cajole food makers into producing nutrition labels that are easier to understand, Michelle Obama, a healthy-eating advocate, has her sights set on a new target: the nation’s restaurants.

A team of advisers to Mrs. Obama has been holding private talks over the past year with the National Restaurant Association, a trade group, in a bid to get restaurants to adopt her goals of smaller portions and children’s meals that include healthy offerings like carrots, apple slices and milk instead of French fries and soda, according to White House and industry officials.

The discussions are preliminary, and participants say they are nowhere near an agreement like the one Mrs. Obama announced recently with Wal-Mart to lower prices on fruits and vegetables and to reduce the amount of fat, sugar and salt in its foods. But they reveal how assertively she is working to prod the industry to sign on to her agenda.

On Tuesday, Mrs. Obama will begin a three-day publicity blitz to spotlight “Let’s Move!,” her campaign to reduce childhood obesity, which was announced one year ago this week.....

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To: 2ndDivisionVet
...children’s meals that include healthy offerings like carrots, apple slices and milk.

If I recall correctly, some with actual credentials in the nutrition sciences argue that carrots are actually quite high in high-glycemic sugar; and milk (yup moo juice) can be quite harmful to the fairly high proportion of kids (and adults) with allergies to the proteins and/or hypersensitivities to lactose.

One suspects that the (alleged) first lady just might have some amazing ignorance about the entire topic of nutrition.

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61 posted on 02/06/2011 8:17:31 PM PST by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never...except to convictions of honour and good sense. W. Churchill)
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To: LostInBayport

I love that pic. When Michelle can get her fat ass down to a size the will pit into either the blue or red dress, then i will listen to her, probably not, but until then STFU.

Lead by example you fat ass ugly bitch.


62 posted on 02/06/2011 8:53:25 PM PST by SledgeCS (If this is an example of a transparent government, I would hate to see what a secret one is.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Just one of several reasons I no longer shop at Wally World.


63 posted on 02/06/2011 8:54:46 PM PST by bog trotter
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; All
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64 posted on 02/06/2011 9:01:33 PM PST by Cobra64
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

First of all, Michelle looks a little on the heavy side to me.

Second, most restaurants are already serving smaller portions and charging the same or more.


65 posted on 02/06/2011 9:03:44 PM PST by Terry Mross (We need a SECOND party.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

She really doesn’t have any business trying to change the way private enterprise sells their products (in this case what meals are served at restaurants). She wants serving sizes to be smaller in restaurants, really? I can see recommending calorie/fat grams on menues, but that is it. And then - it should be optional. These are private companies. This type of stuff gets on my nerves, kind of like the whole salt thing in NYC. This administration has already done enough economical damage, she really needs to back off.


66 posted on 02/06/2011 9:05:57 PM PST by HollyB
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To: SonOfDarkSkies; LibsRJerks

Both of your posts are correctamundo.


67 posted on 02/06/2011 9:08:26 PM PST by HollyB
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To: twyn1
Michelle puts the hip in hypocrisy!
68 posted on 02/06/2011 9:23:21 PM PST by Hunton Peck (I am required to warn you that this metaphor is registered as a deadly weapon in 32 states.)
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To: Cheerio
Somebody in the WH is seriously addicted to ice cream. How many pictures have we seen of them eating ice cream? And at a Super Bowl party, in February?

I really, really wish she'd take up knitting or something and stop with all the health and nutrition nonsense. It's very obviously a "do as I say not as I do" made-up "cause" and not something she really believes in and has a passion for, as many previous First Lady causes have been. It's intrusive, and I agree with others that her knowledge of nutrition- not to mention her knowledge of how the "common folk" live- is extremely limited.

Quite a few people, myself included, routinely either share meals at restaurants, or take home part of their meal to eat later, for another meal.

Somehow I suspect that neither of those options has ever crossed her mind.

69 posted on 02/06/2011 9:56:20 PM PST by susannah59
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To: susannah59

Looking at the width of her backside, I’d say she ought to practice what she preaches.

I wonder what her caloric intake is? Probably over 2,000 calories a day - way over - easy.


70 posted on 02/06/2011 9:59:40 PM PST by airborne (Why is it we won't allow the Bible in school, but we will in prison? Think about it.)
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To: Cheerio

“White House announces Super Bowl menu: ‘Bratwurst, Kielbasa, Cheeseburgers, Deep Dish Pizza, Buffalo Wings, German Potato Salad, Twice Baked Potatoes, Potato Chip, Pretzels, Chips and Dips, Salad, Ice Cream’...”

There will be some serious buzzard breath in that group.


71 posted on 02/06/2011 10:12:07 PM PST by Psalm 144 (Voodoo Republicans - Don't read their lips. Watch their hands.)
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To: Cheerio

The hypocrisy of these usurpers s unparalleled!


72 posted on 02/06/2011 10:14:05 PM PST by Freedom56v2 ("If you think healthcare is expensive now, wait till it is free"--PJ O'rourke)
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To: Hunton Peck

“Michelle puts the hip in hypocrisy!”

What does she put into asinine?


73 posted on 02/06/2011 10:16:07 PM PST by Psalm 144 (Voodoo Republicans - Don't read their lips. Watch their hands.)
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To: LibsRJerks
I think someone out there IS trying to control the prices of the various categories of meats, poultry, etc. to get people to eat less red meat.

Between Ethanol and Chinese corn imports, the price of feed grain has been going up and will go up more. Meat will go up too. Fill your freezer...

74 posted on 02/06/2011 10:29:54 PM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Psalm 144

“What does she put into asinine?”

110%, just like any overachiever!


75 posted on 02/06/2011 10:57:33 PM PST by Hunton Peck (I am required to warn you that this metaphor is registered as a deadly weapon in 32 states.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Michelle wants to “give parents the confidence to know that they can go into any restaurant and get a healthy meal for their kids.”

1. Just about every restaurant in the country serves salads and has been doing so way before this busy-body came along. If parents want healthy food it’s ALREADY there.

2. I like the way she dictates orders for public school kids when her OWN kids are exempt from all of this nonsense at their pricey exclusive private school.

3. How did parents ever manage to raise their kids in the past without this gawd-awful broad in their faces telling them what to do?


76 posted on 02/06/2011 11:17:25 PM PST by dupree
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

They have pretty good food in Romania and Argentina, actually.


77 posted on 02/07/2011 12:22:28 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
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To: aruanan

Like C. S. Lewis said, there’s a certain kind of bad man who can’t give something up without trying to make everybody else give it up too.


78 posted on 02/07/2011 12:24:01 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
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To: silverleaf

I think Big Ears laid the law down to Michelle. This is Guy Stuff and you Dast Not Interfere!


79 posted on 02/07/2011 12:26:23 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
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To: HiTech RedNeck
I was referring to Mrs. Elena Ceauşescu and Mrs. Eva Duarte Perón, of course. I won't drag Frau Eva Anna Paula Hitler into this, as she kept to the background AND WAS UNKNOWN TO MOST OF THE gERMAN PUBLIC UNTIL THE VERY END.
80 posted on 02/07/2011 12:27:18 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle. ~Lincoln)
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