Restaurant Nutrition Draws Focus of First Lady

The New York Times ^ | February 6, 2011 | Sheryl Gay Stolberg and William Neuman

[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.....

[EDINVA]

That really is an atrocious menu. I’m not even a health food type person, but that combination of foods just sounds gross.

[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.

And when you combine it with the other kind he mentioned, the one that claims to want to do something for us for our own good, you've got an intolerable situation.

[RetSignman]

[aruanan]

All she needs is a boob belt. Ha ha ha. Thanks.

[John Leland 1789]

I don’t mean to be unkind, but no photo I have ever seen of the woman indicates that she knows the first thing about nutricion-—hers or anyone else’s.

[Bedford Forrest]

As a general matter, fat sows who are two axe-handles across the a** should refrain from instructing others what and how to eat. The babe on the left is Carla Bruni-Sarkozy

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

But,, Butt,,Buttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt

[RobertClark]

And of course, being Muslim, we can expect Moochelle to have no knowledge of the Kashrut:

On three separate occasions, the Torah tells us not to "boil a kid in its mother's milk." (Ex. 23:19; Ex. 34:26; Deut. 14:21). The Oral Torah explains that this passage prohibits eating meat and dairy together. The rabbis extended this prohibition to include not eating milk and poultry together. In addition, the Talmud prohibits cooking meat and fish together or serving them on the same plates, because it is considered to be unhealthy. It is, however, permissible to eat fish and dairy together, and it is quite common (lox and cream cheese, for example). It is also permissible to eat dairy and eggs together.

This separation includes not only the foods themselves, but the utensils, pots and pans with which they are cooked, the plates and flatware from which they are eaten, the dishwashers or dishpans in which they are cleaned, the sponges with which they are cleaned and the towels with which they are dried. A kosher household will have at least two sets of pots, pans and dishes: one for meat and one for dairy.

[freebird5850]

“Hey Moochelle! Why don’t you show us how! With the amount of junk in that trunk, why not lead by example”

No way....it’s do as I say, not as I do.....that goes for the usurper too.

[Cheerio]

How many pictures have we seen of them eating ice cream?

Some freeper with good picture posting skills should collect them all and post a collage of ICE CREAM OBSESSION AT THE WHITE HOUSE!!!!!

1,840,000 results, many duplicates

ice cream obama

[norge]

Man, that’s one wide beam on that barge!

Or to switch metaphors, you could write a lot of grafitti on that wall.

Sorry, I’m having a Vicodin night...delightful.