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Obama's Food Police in Staggering Crackdown on Market to Kids
Human Events ^ | June 21, 2011 | Audrey Hudson, congressional correspondent

Posted on 06/21/2011 12:56:23 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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1 posted on 06/21/2011 12:56:29 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Stinking slug-brained commies.


2 posted on 06/21/2011 12:58:54 AM PDT by TigersEye (Who crashed the markets on 9/15/08 and why?)
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If they want a simple target, they should consider high fructose corn syrup. The excessive use of this sweetner seems to coincide rather directly with the obesity increase.


3 posted on 06/21/2011 1:00:57 AM PDT by gleeaikin
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To: TigersEye
"....These are decisions I want to make for my kids. These should not be government decisions."

This is all in the constitution, right? and mandated to the federal government?
4 posted on 06/21/2011 1:04:31 AM PDT by verklaring (Pyrite is not gold))
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To: gleeaikin

It would be dietetically superior to go back from HFCS to plain old sugar. For whatever reason, HFCS is not as satisfying as sucrose even though its flavor is very similar, so there is a tendency to want more of it. But soft drink makers switching to sugar might find their sales suffering, not because their product tastes any worse, but because people would be satisfied with less of it at a time.


5 posted on 06/21/2011 1:07:24 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Hawk)
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To: gleeaikin
I don't like corn syrup personally. I don't believe food tastes as good as I can remember from my kid days.

And as far as the article, the Obamas are scum sucking pigs. There are alternatives out there if you want less sugar. I'm not a big fan of soft drinks so we don't buy them regularly. When there's a choice, I'll buy cereal that has less sugar. I'm capable of doing this on my own. I don't need their arm twisting and costly disruption of the food industry. This is another thing that will make food prices soar. They won't be happy until we are eating grass and bark. And those pinko hypocrites will still be living high on the hog.

6 posted on 06/21/2011 1:09:10 AM PDT by beaversmom
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To: gleeaikin

My guess too, although all sugar is likely a culprit, not just HFCS. HFCS makes sugar a lot cheaper though (as it´s government-sponsored). Gotta love that irony, but it´s the federal government, so what do you expect?

Ironically though, instead of looking at sugar, the government has been waging a jihad against fat since the early 80-ies, egged on by vegetarian-ish busybodies. In 1980, the US was a very, very thin country compared to today.

My take: The government should stay the hell away from my dinner plate, and stop subsidizing the sugar industry with billions of tax dollars.

Related: “Is sugar toxic?”
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/17/magazine/mag-17Sugar-t.html


7 posted on 06/21/2011 1:14:27 AM PDT by globelamp
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

As Obama is hosing down a chili dog.


8 posted on 06/21/2011 1:16:40 AM PDT by microgood
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To: beaversmom

Indeed. What I, or my children eat is, get this: None of the federal government´s business.

Related: “My Thanks To The Dietary Guidelines Committee”
http://www.fathead-movie.com/index.php/2011/02/03/my-thanks-to-the-dietary-guidelines-committee/


9 posted on 06/21/2011 1:17:09 AM PDT by globelamp
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Regulating what children eat... Commerce Clause? General Welfare Clause? Exactly how do they even justify the ability to propose the mere idea?


10 posted on 06/21/2011 1:21:32 AM PDT by Teacher317 (really?)
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To: gleeaikin

Yes and they stick it in everything.


11 posted on 06/21/2011 1:24:27 AM PDT by Netizen
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I never ate that crap and it’s not good for kids. But, where does the government get off telling anyone who to formulize their product which is already patented?

It’s true, the product is patented.

When I worked for McDonalds we could not make changes to only one item, the Big Mac. It’s patented right down to how the thing is stacked.

Don’t want the sauce? Well that’s not a Big Mac and we can’t omit it.

Don’t want cheese? Can’t omit it.

Don’t want three pickle slices on each layer? You are not ordering a Big Mac.

I can’t sugary anything and Big Mac’s but who am I to tell the business what they can sell in the hopes of reaching some ridiculous utopia?

Fat people are fat for exactly two reasons:

Bad Food Choices.

Lack of exercise.

If anyone thinks otherwise they are just kidding themselves and that is their right.

But life sometimes comes with pleasure such as Leonidas Chocolates, my favorite being Manon Blanc. I love the Astrid Truffle by Neuhaus. In fact, anything they make is scrumptious.

For fun and intense flavors I love the Richart Truffles.

No one has the right to deny another pleasure and no one has the right to tell another how to live.


12 posted on 06/21/2011 1:26:16 AM PDT by Vendome ("Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it anyway")
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To: gleeaikin

One of my pet peeves is that lying commercial about all sugars being the same. They are NOT, that’s why the body metabolizes the differently.

HFCS has an extra molecule that makes it harder for the body to break down. The longer it stays in the blood the more it affects blood sugar.

I would also like to see products list the trans fats by volume instead of per portion. They skirt the truth by making the portion size so small that they can claim zero trans fats, which misleads people into thinking a product has no trans fats when it really does. If people could see that a product claiming no trans fats per serving actually had 10 grams of trams fats per volume, they realize the product was not trans fat free after all.

People can’t make informed choices when deceptive advertising is allowed. jmo


13 posted on 06/21/2011 1:30:21 AM PDT by Netizen
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So has McDonald’s ever caught anyone else making pseudo Big Macs? What would it take to be different, using four or two pickles instead of three on each layer?


14 posted on 06/21/2011 1:31:01 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Hawk)
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A lot of people that had soft drinks prior to HFCS say the real sugar soft drinks had a much better taste.


15 posted on 06/21/2011 1:32:05 AM PDT by Netizen
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Government needs to leave us the fu** alone. Mooshele the fat a** is out of control, sick sick sick.
16 posted on 06/21/2011 1:35:01 AM PDT by boomop1
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Enzymes in normal saliva help the body convert ingested sucrose into a glucose-fructose mixture which would be virtually identical to the sugar content of HFCS, which is then metabolized by normal bodily processes. But the process from taste buds to appearance of sugars in the blood stream would be slower. And ironically, more satisfying. Getting a sugar buzz too quickly after tasting the sugar is perceived as less satisfying, not more.


17 posted on 06/21/2011 1:35:10 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Hawk)
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To: verklaring

Yes, it’s in the We Are Your Overlords clause. Right after the You Don’t Know Nuthin’ clause.


18 posted on 06/21/2011 1:37:20 AM PDT by TigersEye (Who crashed the markets on 9/15/08 and why?)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

I just know what the dietician/nutritionist told me.


19 posted on 06/21/2011 1:37:54 AM PDT by Netizen
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To: globelamp

The 80’s is about the time that HFCS was being shoved at us.


20 posted on 06/21/2011 1:39:16 AM PDT by Netizen
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