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The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, which promotes preventive health measures, plans to file a petition this week asking Obama to issue an executive order banning staged photos of the president, his family, the vice president and Cabinet members eating unhealthy foods, according to the Baltimore Sun.
Though he cuts a lean figure, the president is well known for his poor food choices. He makes high profile forays to a Washington area burger joint, including one with Russian Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev, and can be regularly seen downing heaps of junk food while traveling around the country.
But Michelle, who promotes healthy eating through her “Let’s Move” kids health initiative, has herself been photographed eating pizza, ice cream, burgers, fries and cookies. She’s a regular at a local Washington pizza parlor, has hit the same burger joint as her husband, and has served all kinds of unhealthy treats and high-calorie meals to White House visitors.
At last year’s White House Super Bowl party, Michelle laid out a spread that included bratwurst, kielbasa, cheeseburgers, deep dish pizza, Snyder’s potato chips and dips, german potato salad,
and ice cream.
Cokes and sugary drinks is probably contributing as much to obesity as much as unhealty eating.
Dr. Pepper is my worst vice. If I quit for 2 weeks I lose 5 pounds.
I think it's a combination of sodium, corn syrup (as opposed to cane sugar) and saturated fat: eating what's not natural. Need to grease a pan? Olive oil. Want to give your stir fry a nice asian kick without the salt? Go for the Worcestershire sauce, not the soy. Want to dress your salad? Go for the red wine vinegar and olive oil with a bit of garlic and a pinch of salt rather than the processed ranch/bleu cheese etc.
Very simple things to make you healthy.
This country needs to get back to eating local produce. Grocery is for dry food, the twice weekly visit to the "market" is for fresh food. Period
The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, which promotes preventive health measures, plans to file a petition this week asking Obama to issue an executive order banning staged photos of the president, his family, the vice president and Cabinet members eating unhealthy foods, according to the Baltimore Sun.
Though he cuts a lean figure, the president is well known for his poor food choices. He makes high profile forays to a Washington area burger joint, including one with Russian Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev, and can be regularly seen downing heaps of junk food while traveling around the country.
But Michelle, who promotes healthy eating through her “Let’s Move” kids health initiative, has herself been photographed eating pizza, ice cream, burgers, fries and cookies. She’s a regular at a local Washington pizza parlor, has hit the same burger joint as her husband, and has served all kinds of unhealthy treats and high-calorie meals to White House visitors.
At last year’s White House Super Bowl party, Michelle laid out a spread that included bratwurst, kielbasa, cheeseburgers, deep dish pizza, Snyder’s potato chips and dips, german potato salad,
and ice cream.
She's an actual human being. Good try...
"I don't even know what you'd have other than some hot dogs and some burgers for a Super Bowl party. That's what Super Bowl is, so the message has always been about balance."
The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, which promotes preventive health measures, plans to file a petition this week asking Obama to issue an executive order banning staged photos of the president, his family, the vice president and Cabinet members eating unhealthy foods, according to the Baltimore Sun.
Though he cuts a lean figure, the president is well known for his poor food choices. He makes high profile forays to a Washington area burger joint, including one with Russian Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev, and can be regularly seen downing heaps of junk food while traveling around the country.
But Michelle, who promotes healthy eating through her “Let’s Move” kids health initiative, has herself been photographed eating pizza, ice cream, burgers, fries and cookies. She’s a regular at a local Washington pizza parlor, has hit the same burger joint as her husband, and has served all kinds of unhealthy treats and high-calorie meals to White House visitors.
At last year’s White House Super Bowl party, Michelle laid out a spread that included bratwurst, kielbasa, cheeseburgers, deep dish pizza, Snyder’s potato chips and dips, german potato salad,
and ice cream.
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Originally Posted by Magnolia Bloom
She's an actual human being. Good try...
"I don't even know what you'd have other than some hot dogs and some burgers for a Super Bowl party. That's what Super Bowl is, so the message has always been about balance."
I don't see her "setting policy" or telling anyone what to do. As First Lady you and everyone else just pays more attention to what she says becasue she is First Lady...it's a cycle.
Money follows for changes and awareness because it's being highlighted, not because anyone is being "forced". People are funny when it comes to things they don't like. They go looking for things to get upset about because they can't get upset enough with actual problems I guess.
Not really just wish the economy and real life issues was just as important.......as managing others lives, don't you? Is she a dietitian? I here she's a gardener seems it started when she moved into the WH, not many of us knew about gardening before the Obama's started.
So you want her to suffer just as much as other people then? Or what?
Were you able to follow that garden? What was it about 8 feet by 8 feet?
I come from a gardening family it's fun, but also a lot of work and time, not to mention the cost. How many people can actually grow a garden without help and money. Think she tries to make it look oh so easy and with very little money involved. I understand her concept, but like you say 8 feet by 8 feet and hired hands can make gardening look like a breeze.
If I calculated the dollars I’ve spent tilling, amending, mulching, staking, irrigating, fencing and fertilizing — all in my wildly unsuccessful quest to grow a couple hundred measly pounds of cellulose — I’d probably have to throw myself off a mound of organic manure. And that doesn’t even factor in the hundreds of hours of my labor or the opportunity costs of all the things I could have done with that time such as cooking for my family, for example, or reading to my children.
Once you successfully harvest a crop, you then have to figure out what to do with it, and it’s worth recalling that techniques such as canning, which are being enthusiastically resurrected in the 21st century, are incredibly time consuming and kept women tied, literally and figuratively, to the kitchen. Packaged and frozen foods may seem like a modern blight but, in reality, they freed women and helped them move into the workforce.
Along with our kitchen gardens, we need to keep the pressure on higher-level forces at the root of our national health crisis, too. Bring back recess and playtime in schools. Stop the unfair agricultural subsidies that flood the market with processed food and keep prices for many unhealthy foods artificially low. Without a multi-pronged approach to wellness, our homegrown lettuce won’t amount to a hill of beans.
I come from a gardening family it's fun, but also a lot of work and time, not to mention the cost. How many people can actually grow a garden without help and money. Think she tries to make it look oh so easy and with very little money involved. I understand her concept, but like you say 8 feet by 8 feet and hired hands can make gardening look like a breeze.
If I calculated the dollars I’ve spent tilling, amending, mulching, staking, irrigating, fencing and fertilizing — all in my wildly unsuccessful quest to grow a couple hundred measly pounds of cellulose — I’d probably have to throw myself off a mound of organic manure. And that doesn’t even factor in the hundreds of hours of my labor or the opportunity costs of all the things I could have done with that time such as cooking for my family, for example, or reading to my children.
Once you successfully harvest a crop, you then have to figure out what to do with it, and it’s worth recalling that techniques such as canning, which are being enthusiastically resurrected in the 21st century, are incredibly time consuming and kept women tied, literally and figuratively, to the kitchen. Packaged and frozen foods may seem like a modern blight but, in reality, they freed women and helped them move into the workforce.
Along with our kitchen gardens, we need to keep the pressure on higher-level forces at the root of our national health crisis, too. Bring back recess and playtime in schools. Stop the unfair agricultural subsidies that flood the market with processed food and keep prices for many unhealthy foods artificially low. Without a multi-pronged approach to wellness, our homegrown lettuce won’t amount to a hill of beans.
So you want her to suffer just as much as other people then? Or what?
What are you saying?? Suffer from what the lack of junk food that her and her husband enjoy while preaching to the rest of us?? Sometimes bad habits that need to be broken start in your own house first.
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