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You said conservatives were behind the outcry over Michelle Obama's interference in school lunch guidelines.
The reality is that parents all over the country were behind that outcry because children of households whether conservative or liberal were dumping their lunches in the trash rather than eating them and in the process wasting a whole lot of taxpayer dollars.
How was that wasting tax payer dollars. I’m sorry but since when do we cater to kids.
That hypocrite was responsible for schools serving garbage to high school athletes (who threw it away), while she and her husband continued to make their "burgers and fries" (and HIS favorite coconut shake) runs at the Shake Shack--then told the staff to stop blabbing about what they'd ordered.
Give me a break.
This kind of thinking is why so many fail when they try to diet.
Eating a healthy diet does not mean you can NEVER have a burger and fries or a coconut shake.
Eating a healthy diet means you eat those kinds of things once in awhile, not every single day.
Do you really think the Obamas eat greasy fried food and sugar laden desserts EVERY DAY?
Not the Obamas, but certainly Donald Trump.....and it shows.
I can't imagine anyone making 2,000+ posts a year NOT being morbidly obese.
Now I work at home at my desk and drink nothing but water or coffee and walk almost everywhere it's still a struggle maintaining my weight of 160-170 (from a high of 200) when I can reach over and shovel something into my mouth at any moment of the day.
It takes discipline and effort, especially junk food is just so cheap and plentiful.
You have to remember until the very decent past you burned up most of your calories just producing the food you needed, which took all day to grow, harvest and prepare. Now most people just work all day and just grab whatever is most convenient, often highly processed material that only somewhat resembles food.
Yeah, food-deserts, that is to blame for the fatness of the USA.
I've lived in one before, where the only food around was from crappy corner stores. The type that has a broader variety of Slim Jims than fresh produce (which was generally limited to wilted iceberg lettuce and mushy bruised apples and bananas). If you don't have a car, as I didn't, your diet is limited to what that corner store has.
The only reason I stayed thin is because of genetics.
1. The introduction of artificial sweeteners like high fructose corn syrup. This happened because the US grows more corn than it needs so the corn farmers lobbied for ways to put corn in even more foods. Studies have shown this leads to obesity faster than natural sugar.
2. As already mentioned the advice from the government about food has been terrible. 6 servings of bread a day? Lol, that is all metabolized to sugar in fat sedentary people.
1. The introduction of artificial sweeteners like high fructose corn syrup. This happened because the US grows more corn than it needs so the corn farmers lobbied for ways to put corn in even more foods. Studies have shown this leads to obesity faster than natural sugar.
politicians have favored the interests of farmers and corporate food entities over that of the general welfare through taxation and subsidies. Politicians should be completely out of the food chain.
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2. As already mentioned the advice from the government about food has been terrible. 6 servings of bread a day? Lol, that is all metabolized to sugar in fat sedentary people.
The advice of Politicians and their agencies full of anonymous bureaucrats should never be taken seriously.
See a trend yet?
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Too funny!
