Students at Sharon Elementary School in Sharon, Vt., part of a national program to improve school nutrition.
Posted on 05/12/2010 1:15:02 PM PDT by GOP_Lady
WASHINGTON—The White House is calling on food makers to curb marketing of unhealthy foods to children, part of a broad assault against childhood obesity.
The recommendation is part of an 120-page report released Tuesday that outlines steps to fight the national epidemic. One in every three children ages 2-19 is overweight or obese, the report says. First Lady Michelle Obama has taken up childhood obesity as her signature cause.
The report contends that companies' previous efforts to regulate marketing of sugary and fatty foods on their own have shown minimal results. During the past five years, food makers including Kraft Foods Inc., General Mills Inc. and others have stopped advertising certain unhealthy products to children through a handful of venues including television, radio and print advertising.
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Big Media is going to suffer from the loss of advertising revenue and need a government bailout...
Curious where the ability to micro-manage children’s diets is found in the Constitution.
“Food makers?” What the hell is that?
Is that some sort of BUSINESS? As in, it’s none of your’s ‘Shelley?
This is your warning FOOD MAKERS! You SHALL do obama’s will or ELSE!!
Obama cannot simply understand with his low IQ that America is not inner city Chicago and the American people are not the Shaniqwas welfare queens of inner city Chicago. The majority of people outside the inner cities disasters created by liberals like Obama know how to run their lives very well without any intervention of the STATE. In fact the only reason the inner cities are a disaster is because liberals have been destroying the lives of the people there for generations by making them totally dependents on the STATE for survival and in return they give the votes to gain power.
What exactly are the punishments to those makers of “unredeemable food products”? Will they get a time out or something? Get real, bammy will be a lame duck in 5 months, what possible punishment could he alone serve?
I hope those are organic carrots.
OMG! That kid’s eating WHITE bread!!!
zerO’s economic mismanagement, record unemployment and record numbers of Americans on foodstamps lend a certain irony to his pretentious angry belly-belt wearing wife choosing “obesity” as her signature cause
Not to mention the recurring vacation photos of the overfed first family slurping ice cream
So should this be called “The White House Stick & Carrot Diet”?
Well, Obama needs to cut down on the food our kids eat so his wife can have enough to keep her @$$ growing into it’s own third world country. Soon he will be king of Michellassopia. All Hail the King!
You know where the WH can stick those carrots!!! ;-)
Michelle is humungous and you don't get that way on a vegie diet. And the girls aren't little either.
If they keep changing the bar like they do, we'll all have to make ourselves puke.
If Oprah couldn’t get skinny after thousands of shows on the topic, a million dollars to throw at the problem, and access to all the experts in the field - what hope does Michelle Obama have of ‘fixing’ the ‘crisis’? I say, she starts with Oprah Winfrey and if she can help Oprah, we let her try with the rest of America.
Happy Birthday to your grandson on his special day!
No doubt all of the children had fun today.
Good for them!!! :-)
“White House Obesity Plan Mixes Carrots With Sticks”
Now I want carrot cake.
I will let him know you wished him a Happy Birthday..Thank you!!
I just worry so much about how his life will be after the communist in the white house has finished with his and our country..
Hey, Silly Rabbit, Carrots and Sticks are for Kids!!
>>If Oprah couldn’t get skinny after thousands of shows on the topic, a million dollars to throw at the problem, and access to all the experts in the field - what hope does Michelle Obama have of ‘fixing’ the ‘crisis’? I say, she starts with Oprah Winfrey and if she can help Oprah, we let her try with the rest of America.<<
Shhhh, you’re making too much sense.
If Michelle really wants to fix the problem, throw all families off food stamps and give them meals. One for every person in the household, with proper portions. Adults get more than kids, teens get less than adults. No chips, no soda. If they don’t like government meals, pay for your own.
That would do more than anything else.
Will they next find that 'genetically modified' foods are better for your child's health? Surely, it will be something. . .surely, a something 'else' here, that serves some special Leftist interests - first and foremost. (Health care costs aside. . .it is NOT the children. How healthy do you have to be, to be a well-behaved Government 'couch potato'?) Of course, if you let them 'feed' you; you will be a better 'potato head' or mind-numbed aparatchik as they otherwise may be known. '
Why do these Socialists go after We the People, whom they have NO RIGHT to dictate to as what kind of light bulbs we use or food we eat - things we can decide for ourselves - instead of going after the outfits that put poisons in our foods that we don't know about - and can't do anything to stop?
Especially things tied to obesity and that are hidden in just about everything we do not produce on our own. Here's just 2 examples:
All from a government that currently classifies Ketchup as a vegetable.
Witch Doctor....heal YOURSELF!!
Simple, restore gym and recess, remove the ability to buy junk food from U.S. Food Stamp program. Lock up the criminals so kids can get out side to play in their terrorized neighborhoods.
Anyone notice that we didn’t have this obesity problem when kids had to bring their own lunch!!
Not to worry too much.
Tell him to think for himself and reach for his dreams and that no one can ever stop him.
:-)
Appropriate response: Quo Warranto?
...take a hike, Michelle. You're the First Lady, remember? (Hint: ZERO legal authority)
Me to Michelle Obama: Shape your own fat ass up!
Obesity plan...beats crafting “jobs’ plans...”revenue” plans, “tax cut” plans...”tort reform plans”..etc.etc.etc....
Great idea!
I know folks who have done quite well with Nutrisystem.
Since I’m old enough to remember eating at my desk..YES. I had a bologna sandwich, a apple, and the school provided a half pint of whole milk for 5 cents a day. Then we went out side for the rest of the ‘lunch’ period and played (45 mins.) Unless the weather was bad then we went to the gym. Plus we had PE 3 times a week.
Didn’t see a school lunch room until 9th grade when I started HS. We still had PE every day in the 9th, then was optional after that. I still took my sandwich and bought a mile, school lunches even back then were not to my taste buds.
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