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Michelle Obama's Shake Shack Burger Indulgence Defended by Nutritionists (ABC News to the rescue)
ABC News ^ | Tuesday, July 12, 2011 | Mikeala Conley

Posted on 07/12/2011 7:15:50 AM PDT by kristinn

Stop the presses, Michelle Obama might have eaten a hamburger.

The blogosphere erupted with criticism almost immediately after the Washington Post reported Monday that the first lady sat down at a newly opened Shake Shack in Washington D.C., where she ordered a ShackBurger, fries, a chocolate shake and a Diet Coke. According to the popular burger joint's website, that's a 1,556-calorie meal. (sic, actually it was 1700 calories.)

Many critiqued the first lady's public display of Shake Shack love as she continues to advocate for her Let's Move! campaign, an initiative to eliminate childhood obesity.

But even as the first lady-turned-health-advocate chowed down on a meal that contains almost an entire day's recommended calorie intake, most nutrition experts are telling people to relax.

"[This is an] unfortunate invasion of privacy for Mrs. Obama," said Alice Lichtenstein, professor of nutrition science and policy at Tufts School of Medicine in Boston. "She has kept her weight constant and engages in regular physical activity. An occasional indulgence is fine. For many people, that is what helps them keep on track most of the time."

Most experts agreed with Lichtenstein, while saying that the first lady's lunch is being unnecessarily scrutinized.

(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: burgersformenotthee; caloriefootprint; eatright; foodnazis; foodpolice; grifters; health; healthyfoods; hipocrite; hypocrisy; letsmove; liberalhypocrisy; lichtenstein; michelle; michelleobama; nutrition; obama; shakeshack
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When liberals act like hypocritical pigs, they are defended by the media. When conservatives....
1 posted on 07/12/2011 7:15:55 AM PDT by kristinn
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To: kristinn

If it looks like a pig and walks like a pig, etc, etc......


2 posted on 07/12/2011 7:19:57 AM PDT by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like it)
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To: kristinn

How does Alice Lichtenstein know that Michelle keeps her weight constant and exercises regularly?


3 posted on 07/12/2011 7:20:22 AM PDT by TJ Jackson
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To: kristinn

Oink !


4 posted on 07/12/2011 7:20:25 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Eh ?)
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To: kristinn
Outrage over hypocrisy is a juvenile emotion.

It supposes that no ideal should be sought unless it has already been attained.

5 posted on 07/12/2011 7:20:41 AM PDT by laotzu
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To: kristinn
"[This is an] unfortunate invasion of privacy for Mrs. Obama," said Alice Lichtenstein, professor of nutrition science and policy at Tufts School of Medicine in Boston. "She has kept her weight constant and engages in regular physical activity. An occasional indulgence is fine. For many people, that is what helps them keep on track most of the time."

Hey, Alice, are you really a professor of nutrition science and policy or are you a shill for Michelle Obama?

6 posted on 07/12/2011 7:21:41 AM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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To: kristinn

ABC News is ridiculous. Anyone who accepts their crap as actual news is a fool.


7 posted on 07/12/2011 7:22:15 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: kristinn

“[This is an] unfortunate invasion of privacy for Mrs. Obama,” said Alice Lichtenstein, professor of nutrition science and policy at Tufts School of Medicine in Boston. “She has kept her weight constant and engages in regular physical activity. An occasional indulgence is fine. For many people, that is what helps them keep on track most of the time.”

Fine! She can quit invading my privacy by telling me what to eat!


8 posted on 07/12/2011 7:23:08 AM PDT by illiac (If we don't change directions soon, we'll get where we're going)
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To: kristinn

Who orders a shake AND a diet coke???


9 posted on 07/12/2011 7:23:36 AM PDT by VastRWCon (Taxed to Death)
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You don’t get a butt like that without a fry or two daily.


10 posted on 07/12/2011 7:23:55 AM PDT by steve8714
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You don’t get a butt like that without a fry or two daily.


11 posted on 07/12/2011 7:24:04 AM PDT by steve8714
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“[This is an] unfortunate invasion of privacy for Mrs. Obama,” - But she can invade the privacy of everyone else’s eating habits, right?


12 posted on 07/12/2011 7:24:13 AM PDT by PDGearhead (Obama's lack of citizenship)
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To: kristinn

You don’t get a butt like that without a fry or two daily.


13 posted on 07/12/2011 7:24:13 AM PDT by steve8714
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The Whitehouse press corp meals are catered every day by the administration. The whitehouse kitchen makes up their meals. The press will not risk that perk.

Oddly enough.........Is there a line on their w-2's for income from all these meals?

14 posted on 07/12/2011 7:24:28 AM PDT by blackdog (The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop)
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To: laotzu

People actually are inherently consistent, even if that consistency consists only of indulging their whims.

However, with the left, their consistency isn’t about whims, it’s about furthering collectivist/communist control of the world.

Mickey’s “hypocrisy” just demonstrates that she is “special”, of the ruling class, and that everyone else needs to be told what to eat.


15 posted on 07/12/2011 7:24:39 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
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When liberals act like hypocritical pigs

Which is pretty much all the time.

16 posted on 07/12/2011 7:24:56 AM PDT by FourPeas ("Maladjusted and wigging out is no way to go through life, son." -hg)
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To: VastRWCon

LMAO!! I was wondering the same thing.


17 posted on 07/12/2011 7:25:06 AM PDT by mojitojoe ( 1400 years of existence & Islam has 2 main accomplishments, psychotic violence and goat curry)
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"[This is an] unfortunate invasion of privacy for Mrs. Obama,"

Literally digging through Sarah Palin's garbage is considered justifiable. Catching Moochelle in a hypocritical moment is unfortunate.

18 posted on 07/12/2011 7:25:56 AM PDT by Malone LaVeigh
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To: laotzu
It may be juvenile, but IMO outrage over the hypocrisy of these would-be totalitarians is a healthy thing.

Anything that drives up their negatives is God-sent.

19 posted on 07/12/2011 7:26:54 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: laotzu

Outrage over hypocrisy is a juvenile emotion.

It supposes that no ideal should be sought unless it has already been attained.

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Your comparison is deceitful.

If it was a case of not measuring up to one’s own aspirations you would have a point. The hypocrisy here is that she dictates to others while utterly disregarding those decrees herself. Disgust and contempt for her hypocrisy is completely justified, just as they are for your sophistry.


20 posted on 07/12/2011 7:28:23 AM PDT by Psalm 144 (We are not governed. We are occupied.)
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