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Michelle Obama targets toddler diets
GOPUSA ^
| June 9, 2011
| Nancy Benac (Associated Press)
Posted on 06/09/2011 8:44:54 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
WASHINGTON (AP) - Michelle Obama dropped in on lunch and circle time at a Washington child care center on Wednesday and used the occasion to announce a new national initiative to encourage child care centers to promote healthy eating and exercise habits starting with the littlest Americans.
The first lady watched as toddlers ate a healthy lunch of fish, fruit and salad greens, did the bunny hop with youngsters in a P.E. class and clapped along with singing time at CentroNia, a bilingual child care center that stresses just the kinds of healthy practices that Mrs. Obama is trying to encourage.
The first lady said instilling good health habits through child care centers and home-based care can be "a real building block for an entire generation of healthy kids." She noted that more than half of obese children first become overweight before they reach their second birthday.
Mrs. Obama announced that 1,600 child care centers nationwide already have committed to standards that promote healthy eating, exercise and limited time in front of TV, computer and other screens. And she released a checklist that parents and child care centers can use to make sure they're hitting the right notes.
The first lady said child care centers run by the Defense Department, the General Services Administration and Bright Horizons, a private company that manages child care centers for many corporations, hospitals, universities and government agencies, all had signed on to the program.
She was joined by Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Gen. James Cartwright, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Cartwright recalled that when his children were young, military child care centers were sometimes "just a corner of a hangar" without clear standards. Some 200,000 children use military child care centers daily.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cartwright; childcarecenters; daycare; diet; diets; exercise; foodnazis; foodpolice; health; michelleobama; moochelle; nannystate; parenting; sebelius
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
I know I’ll be zapped for this......but here goes.....
BIOTCH!
And I mean that with all my heart.
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posted on
06/09/2011 9:01:52 PM PDT
by
RushIsMyTeddyBear
(Mr. Weiner...Don' t Tweet your meat. It's too late to delete.)
To: quantim
‘ats funny, right derr, I don’t care what anybody says.
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posted on
06/09/2011 9:02:42 PM PDT
by
Steely Tom
(Obama goes on long after the thrill of Obama is gone)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Why wont this woman shut up?
23
posted on
06/09/2011 9:03:56 PM PDT
by
mylife
(OPINIONS ~ $ 1.00 HALFBAKED ~ 50c)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Why doesn’t she work on the fat Surgeon General and leave the rest of us alone.
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posted on
06/09/2011 9:04:19 PM PDT
by
Mears
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks; TigersEye
I think she needs a diet/trainer before she starts telling us what to feed our kids. NJ schools started telling us a few years ago what we could & couldn't send in for lunch. No soda, which was fine as my Sassy doesn't drink it, healthier lunches were encouraged. However the day I sent a gingerbread cookie with a drop of icing & got a call from the school nurse was it for me. My child is thin. And when that nag of a nurse (she was not fit to be a nurse) started lecturing me about sugar my temper flared up. I told her in no uncertain terms that the school could kiss my butt & I would send whatever I wanted Sassy to eat, that I was not obeying the asinine rules they made. Shortly after we started to home school & love it. Hmm is Mrs 0 going to come check my kitchen? Maybe I can send her to the hen house to gather some eggs!
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posted on
06/09/2011 9:04:35 PM PDT
by
pandoraou812
(You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
She needs to spend more time targeting her fat rear end.
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posted on
06/09/2011 9:05:02 PM PDT
by
Ham Hock
To: Steely Tom
Nothing like a Royal Wedding for inspiration!
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posted on
06/09/2011 9:07:23 PM PDT
by
quantim
(Victory is not relative, it is absolute.)
To: quantim
LoL!
All Hail Queen LaBeefa!
28
posted on
06/09/2011 9:07:39 PM PDT
by
mylife
(OPINIONS ~ $ 1.00 HALFBAKED ~ 50c)
To: quantim
LoL!
All Hail Queen LaBeefa!
29
posted on
06/09/2011 9:08:32 PM PDT
by
mylife
(OPINIONS ~ $ 1.00 HALFBAKED ~ 50c)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Nanny Mo wants yer young’ns. Give ‘em up, peeps. Or else.
To: quantim
LoL!
All Hail Queen LaBeefa!
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posted on
06/09/2011 9:10:18 PM PDT
by
mylife
(OPINIONS ~ $ 1.00 HALFBAKED ~ 50c)
To: mylife
Missed one...
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posted on
06/09/2011 9:10:34 PM PDT
by
quantim
(Victory is not relative, it is absolute.)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
I hope everyone remembers the pig-out feast the Obama's hosted for Super Bowl Sunday, and the ice cream treats on their vacations, and the two coneies and loaded fries last week...
Michelle, you have NO STREET CRED, or rather just about as much as NOW does when they ignored Juanita Broderick.
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posted on
06/09/2011 9:12:18 PM PDT
by
50sDad
(A Liberal prevents me from telling you anything here.)
To: quantim
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posted on
06/09/2011 9:13:10 PM PDT
by
mylife
(OPINIONS ~ $ 1.00 HALFBAKED ~ 50c)
To: quantim
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posted on
06/09/2011 9:15:52 PM PDT
by
mylife
(OPINIONS ~ $ 1.00 HALFBAKED ~ 50c)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
To: quantim; pandoraou812
WTF is that? Some reject from Dr. Suess’s sketch books?
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posted on
06/09/2011 9:24:09 PM PDT
by
TigersEye
(Who crashed the markets on 9/15/08 and why?)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
That Brainless lard azz, is the VERY last one to dictate dieting.
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posted on
06/09/2011 9:24:27 PM PDT
by
Cheetahcat
( November 4 2008 ,A date which will live in Infamy.)
To: Gene Eric
Yeah no kidding. People do not eat healthy because they are too busy to make wise nutritional choices. When I am making most meals at home I myself tend to loose weight. None of my kids are overweight and I have a couple of couch potatoes.
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posted on
06/09/2011 9:24:51 PM PDT
by
pennyfarmer
(Even a RINO will chew its foot off when caught in a trap.)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Moochelle should take a hard look at her own rear end before telling anyone anything.
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