Now Michelle Obama Wants to Control How You Shop for Groceries

Michelle Obama has been on a quest to change the way Americans eat, like it or not. Her nutritional guidelines for schools has resulted in kids throwing away massive amounts of food, a reduction in school lunch program participation, students, especially athletes, complaining that the food isn’t enough to sustain them during the day, and Special Education programs losing their main fundraising program.

Now, Michelle Obama wants to take her nutritional demands from the school system nationwide with major changes being suggested by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to nudge Americans to purchase healthier foods. While the “expert panel” had a supposed target of the 47 million Americans, and growing, who are on food stamps, the suggestions will impact everyone who shops at a grocery store. The Washington Free Beacon reported on this attempt by the USDA, using Michelle Obama’s guidelines, to ‘nudge’ consumers on nutritional choices.

This plan to ‘nudge’ Americans to make healthier food choices includes high-tech, $30,000 grocery carts, “MyCart grocery cart,” which would help consumers know they have the appropriate amount of government approved food choices. The color-coded cart would have sections with sensors installed to praise the customer when they have a cart filled to its ‘healthy threshold.’ The report cited the cost for changing to the high-tech grocery cart for Safeway, Inc., which has 1,335 stores nationwide, would be $40.05 million.

This plan to ‘nudge’ Americans to make healthier food choices includes high-tech, $30,000 grocery carts,

And here is Obamas Czarina of NUDGE......

Maya Shankar, a White House adviser cultivating a team tasked with subtly influencing Americans’ behavior, previously worked closely with the George Soros-funded Center for American Progress, WND has learned.

Shankar has discussed utilizing cognitive science for social activism and is a champion of so-called social justice.

Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2013/07/no-joke-meet-obamas-new-nudge-czar/#I8B3JZOPvETmkDUW.99

Maya Shankar is a former violin prodigy who performed with Itzhak Perlman at Juilliard. Inflamed tendons caused her to put down her fiddle, and now the United States is her instrument. So get ready to be played.

According to her LinkedIn profile, Shankar went on to Yale (where she studied cognitive science), Oxford and Stanford.

It would appear that she has never had an actual job unless you count “post-doctoral fellow.”

Shankar is not without accomplishments, though. She is a Rhodes scholar with a killer sense for publicity. She’s been featured on NPR three times and in Glamour and USA Today roundups of the nation’s most promising college students.

In Glamour, in 2006, she said her dream job would be presidential science adviser. So it has come to pass: For her first job, she is now “senior policy advisor at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.” That’s right. Senior. This person was a senior at Yale as of 2007, but now she gets to tell you how to live your life. Sorry: encourage you to make choices that will make you happier.

I don't judge morbidly obese persons for the simple reason I am not privy to their health records. My dads side of the family had two sizes overweight or skinny and very few were in between those extremes except for my dad who maintained a normal weight all his life. To get a realistic idea about their weight a person needs to look at family pictures before 1945 and see how big family member were including ones such as farmers and ones who did labor.

My great uncles My grand dads brothers were quite large they were blacksmiths and farmers. Granddad was skinny as a rail same dad same mother. IOW if it were simply diet they would have worked off their weight.

I have an aunt {dads sister} who could sit at a table and eat all she wanted and was always underweight even by old standards. Her sisters who ate far less and were just as active raising kids keeping house etc had major weight issues. But when both were young and skinnier both had health issues. All lived into their 70's & 80's and as such were not trying to diet rather they bodies metabolism obviously changed and burned the fat off.

My moms two sisters one was overweight and was always active. The other sister was so skinny and small frame a gust of wind could knock her down. In her later years she lived on a sandwich a day split in half for two meals. She lived into her 90's.

My dads brother were both overweight and both were active into their mid 70's. One of them was a Commander in the Navy retiring in about 1970. I saw his picture at a change of command ceremony. All of my dads overweight siblings lost their weight as they approached 70 years old as if a switch had been thrown. Even dad got skinnier.

Am I overweight? Yeap according to the so called new standards charts and due to the loss of about 3" of height I'm nearly 100 pounds over to a weight I haven't seen since I was about 14 years old and I was not a fat teenager. Realistically for my build I'm only 45 lbs over and I know it. I didn't weight the new standards even when I left Boot Camp in 1976. On active duty in 1980 I was 23 years old 5'10" and weighed 205 and was in top shape. That approaches morbid obese by today's charts. Everything has changed in the past couple of years as to standards including Blood Sugar level standards which place many now borderline Diabetics who simply are not. 30 years ago the doctor would have said the now borderline sugar levels were fine and healthy. Now it's panic mode thanks to new goobermunt standards set by Obamites.

A persons health has a lot to do with determining their weight rather than the more believed and accepted a persons weight determines their health. The inability to exercise and work off calories has a lot to do with many morbidly obese persons weight. At 34 I could hike 20 miles a day easily. That was at just 30 pounds less than I weigh now. Now on my Orthro doctors orders I must walk on flat unpaved areas for exercise due to arthritis and feet issues. I was born club footed and became flat footed in my mid 30's. I have to wear corrective insoles except inside the house. Also due to life long balance issues I use a cane now. I'm only 57.

Now granted some people are gluttons and I used to know a family of such. Their meal was a pizza or two and I mean a large one a person and each one got an entire cake. Yea they were greatly overweight and did it too themselves. Just because a person is obese though doesn't mean they are over eaters or lazy.

Instead of rewarding SNAP users for healthy choices, limit their purchases to healthy approved items like WIC does. You can get the food for free, but it is rice, beans, cheese, milk, juice, fruits, vegetables, potatoes. But it won’t let you buy soda, Little Debbie, ice cream, junk food.
This would have several effects almost immediately:
* Millions of people living on SNAP would desperately seek sources of income so they can buy the foods they want
* SNAP fraud would go down, because those who can buy their own food will do so because they can’t buy it with SNAP
* The surest correlation to obesity is poverty. Limiting selections to healthy choices, the national BMI will go down, and over time, national health costs related to diabetes and joint problems made worse by obesity.
* Freedom of the non-dependent public isn’t impacted. But greater purchase volume of healthy foods stimulates their production and sales, thus lowering costs.

I'm not for FS recipients stuffing shopping carts with junk food. But there is also reality. Healthy food especially fresh unprocessed meats, fruits, and veggies, cost more. There is an old saying our parents knew real well. Living high on the hog. Meaning a person able to afford the healthier more choice cuts of meat rather than the other parts. My dad in the 1930's grew up on things like bologna and back then it was healthy to eat it because it was made from better portions of meat. That has a lot to do with what is going on as well. A Sirloin Tip Roast is obviously more healthier than a hamburger but a hamburger of say 30 years ago was also healthy food because portions of beef now allowed to be used were used for dog and cat food instead. Now the cost of either one in fresh meat is through the roof. I am not a FS user I buy with cash.

I know I need to loose about 40 pounds. Paying for the food needed to get me there is another matter as it adds about $100 a month to the bill. Healthy food means Zilch if it lacks taste. You can buy apples for $.99 a pound that are the size of a kids small rubber ball or you can pay $1.99 a pound for ones with taste. Grapes in season this year are at $2 a pound also. Oranges or Clementines are about $6 a bag. You can buy a lot of filling Junk food for that which is what a lot of persons do because it's filling and satisfies taste and appetite. The Wookie is even trying to regulate diet soda. I hate coffee, I can't tolerate juices, Milk though I like it gags me and cost is astronomical, but I drink diet colas with Splenda. Usually 6 cans per day which I don't see any harm in. Now it has zero calories, zero carbs, zero fat, yet the health Nazi's are trying to limit how much diet cola per can or bottle. You can't win with these people.

Tonight I ate about a healthy a meal and well balanced as a person can make. I took some left over lean roast and made beef stew. In reality Chicken nuggets, Fish sticks, hot dogs, etc go further at payday than the so called healthy food choices.

Our food prices are too high mainly die to Wookie administration policies to start with. Open up domestic oil and get Diesel fuel cost below $2.50 a gallon. Lower wheel taxes on trucks. Transportation and shipping cost is at least a third of the total cost on produce and meats. They don't want common sense they want to control people. Wookie could care less if a pound of Ground Round was $4 or $400 because their meals are FREE!!!!

The things that stand out to me about her is that she was worshiped as a cult of personality like her husband and Obama. She was inspired by Mao’s wife to work her way up the bureaucratic power ladder.

She forced others to write an organic chemistry thesis for her so she could get a doctorate.

She was anti-Semitic.

Now THIS is interesting.

“She was made a member of the Illinois Academy of Sciences.”

Why does Illinois and Chicago almost always involve collectivists and other evil people?

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