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Obamas to attack restaurants next

Patranus

Patranus

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WASHINGTON — After wrapping her arms around the retail giant Wal-Mart and trying to cajole food makers into producing nutrition labels that are easier to understand, Michelle Obama, the first lady and a healthy-eating advocate, has her sights set on a new target: the nation’s restaurants.

A team of advisers to Mrs. Obama has been holding private talks over the past year with the National Restaurant Association, a trade group, in a bid to get restaurants to adopt her goals of smaller portions and children’s meals that include healthy offerings like carrots, apple slices and milk instead of French fries and soda, according to White House and industry officials.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/07/us/politics/07michelle.html?_r=1&hp

In other news....
President Barack Obama is turning again to fermented alcoholic beverages to find common ground between antagonists, this time fans of the Green Bay Packers and the Pittsburgh Steelers.

For his Super Bowl party Sunday evening, Obama is offering Yuengling Lager and Light, brewed in Pennsylvania, and Hinterland Pale Ale and Amber Ale, all the way from Wisconsin. Independents can pour down some White House Honey Ale if they like.

The rest of the menu for the 100 or so guests at the White House bash is tailgate-friendly even if served inside the Executive Mansion: bratwurst, kielbasa, cheeseburgers, deep-dish pizza and Buffalo wings with sides of German potato salad, twice-baked potatoes and assorted chips and dips.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110206/ap_on_sp_ot/us_obama_super_bowl_menu

Typical liberal. When will these people stop trying to run our lives when they do the exact opposite?
 
I actually have no problem with this. It's one thing to try and ask restaurants to at least offer healthy alternative options, it'll be another if they move to mandate it, like the dumbF labels they wanted to put on the front of containers.

If have no problem with the POTUS/FlOTUS using their position in light of our nations obesity epidemic to try and at least get a semblance of a push to more healthy lifestyles...

Chuck
 
chucky2 said:
I actually have no problem with this. It's one thing to try and ask restaurants to at least offer healthy alternative options, it'll be another if they move to mandate it, like the dumbF labels they wanted to put on the front of containers.

If have no problem with the POTUS/FlOTUS using their position in light of our nations obesity epidemic to try and at least get a semblance of a push to more healthy lifestyles...

Chuck
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Start charging parents with neglect. One of two things will happen: all the stupid parents will be in prison and stop breeding, or children won't be so fat.

Kids can only eat what their parents give them. Fixing the parents is the correct solution. Taking away responsible people's choice is the wrong one.
 
Because offering healthy choices to parents for their kids is BAD!

Stop it libruls! Kids need only fries! Keep deadly apple slices away!

RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE!!


I realize it's difficult to grasp, but the idea is to add at least one healthy item to the menus, not to take away your fishin' poles or freedom fries.

It's not hypocrisy for the president to choose to eat some junk food with the game. Choice. Choice is good. Having choice on menus is good too.
 
I have no problem with asking the restaurants to provide more healthy foods and ingredients. When it becomes legislation or executive order, then I have a problem.
 
Bullshit. Take your kids to soup or salad or Sweet Tomatoes if you don't like crap food. I do and our pantry/fridge looks a lot like Mrs. Obama likes. I don't buy chips, soda's not even diet due to changing blood pH, ice cream but on holidays or any other prepacked trash let alone take them to eat trash at a higher price. Jif peanut butter is about the worst thing I let em eat.
 
Typical unneeded meddling. Parents have plenty of choices of good things to feed their children if they choose to do so. If the populace demanded it, restaurants would offer nothing but healthy foods, but the marketplace obviously does not demand it and restaurants cater to the wants of their customers. Simple supply and demand. It doesn't matter what labels you slap on it or what token health items are offered on the menu.
 
Thread backfire. Now people can't even talk to each other? Why do you hate Michelle Obama's first amendment rights?
 
drebo said:
Start charging parents with neglect. One of two things will happen: all the stupid parents will be in prison and stop breeding, or children won't be so fat.
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Murphy's law. Guess which outcome is more likely.


The correct solution is to make food more expensive. Food in Canada is pretty damn expensive compared to the US, and that's why food portions here are less. It's even more expensive in Europe. Then if you keep making it more expensive it eventually looks like mass starvation (lol Africa)
Cheap food is still better than expensive food. Africans would kill to have an obesity problem.
 
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I think this is a great idea trying to get places to give more healthy options or at least make it easy to see the info on what you are getting when you eat out. I would love to have the info and the info so I could at least make an informed decision. I generally eat healthy when I cook for myself. I would like to at least be able to see if what I am eating is healthy.
 
Paul98 said:
I think this is a great idea trying to get places to give more healthy options or at least make it easy to see the info on what you are getting when you eat out.
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The assumption is that you eat out because you don't care what's in it.

Would knowing the contents of the food actually change your eating habits? Be honest. Everything sold at McDonalds says the nutritional information on the box or wrapper, and nobody seems to care. Next time you order a big mac, look at the bottom of the cardboard box. It has all of the information, including the part about ~500 calories. People still eat 2 of them in one sitting.

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I think it's great that mcdicks has all of that information on every product. I actually do read those. Let's just try to keep it real; having that information will not change eating habits. Only money changes eating habits.
 
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Paul98 said:
I think this is a great idea trying to get places to give more healthy options or at least make it easy to see the info on what you are getting when you eat out. I would love to have the info and the info so I could at least make an informed decision. I generally eat healthy when I cook for myself. I would like to at least be able to see if what I am eating is healthy.
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For example going to the local steakhouse:

Serving size of meat should be about the size of your fist. Ribeye fatty... sirloin better, grilled chicken is the best choice
Those yeast rolls... bad for you.
Fries? cooked in oil. Choose baked potato or sweet potato or better yet steamed veggies.
beer? lots of calories
soda... lots of sugar
water... good choice
a side salad... likely 28 grams of fat in the dressing.

And I figured this all out without government meddling. of course when I go out to eat, I like to eat unhealthy because it tastes damn good and I don't cook that way at home. But the thing about restaurants is that if I ordered a baked potato... they will put the butter and sour cream on the side if I request it. Should congress legislate that butter and sour cream always be put on the side?
 
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Fast food and a lot of places like that I do know already have the info, and some places I have noticed that they have been adding more healthy options. It's more when I go and sit down somewhere to eat. Unless I specifically want something that I don't care what's in it and just want it. But otherwise it would be very nice to know what is in what I am thinking about ordering. Especially since depending on how something is made or what is in something or type they use can make a huge difference in how healthy something is.
 
Patranus said:
Typical liberal. When will these people stop trying to run our lives when they do the exact opposite?
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Wrong.

Typical POLITICIAN. Conversatives do the same thing. For example, they cry about other's infidelity while they cheat on their spouses.

Wake up. Both political parties are run and represented by corrupt human beings. The sooner we all realize this and stop voting for the same assholes over and over the sooner we can get some people in office that actually want to change things for the better and not accept BJs from special interest groups.
 
People, she isn't asking for replacements, she is asking for options. I for one love restaurants that allow you to order lunch portions of food or have a healthy eating section of their menus. There is no legislation or force being applied here.
 
IBMer said:
People, she isn't asking for replacements, she is asking for options. I for one love restaurants that allow you to order lunch portions of food or have a healthy eating section of their menus. There is no legislation or force being applied here.
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Not YET. Hopefully thats coming soon and we can drive more family owned businesses into the ground because we should all just be employed by government and the big businesses that Obama takes his bribes from. 🙄
 
It costs money to offer stuff that people don't buy very much of. A restaurant cannot stay in business doing that. Well, they could jack up the prices of the stuff people do buy...
 
Zebo said:
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Is this a drawing of what you should eat or what people do eat?

The reason I ask is because plant oil is near the bottom and should be eaten in high quantities. McDonalds fries are deep fried in canola oil and people still think it's nutritionally worse than hitler. Hitler has very few nutrients.
 
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Isn't the "fat is bad" and "fruit is good" stuff scientifically proven as a myth at this point? You could eat (lean) red meat all day, every day and still lose weight. On the other hand, just because fruits are filled with natural sugars doesn't mean that that sugar is magically good for you.

As far as I've read, the South Beach diet is the right model to follow - keep your sugar and refined starch to a minimum and enjoy all the fish, chicken, cheese, eggs and unsaturated fats you want. The first domino that needs to fall in our society is a total rewrite of what's considered a "good" diet.
 
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