Posted on 05/09/2012 10:48:13 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
A healthcare advocacy group run by physicians is preparing to file a petition calling on President Obama to stop eating hamburgers, hot dogs and other unhealthy foods before cameras.
"As role model to millions of Americans, the president has a responsibility to watch what he eats in public," said Susan Levin, nutrition education director with the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM).
Obama's occasional stops at Washington, D.C.-area burger joints always receive press attention.
He famously treated staff to lunch at Good Stuff Eatery on Capitol Hill in August 2011.
A year before that, he and then-Russian President Dmitry Medvedev grabbed food at Ray's Hell Burger in Arlington, Va.
And in March, during a visit to Ohio with British Prime Minister David Cameron, he ate hot dogs while watching college basketball.
Levin said in a statement that processed meats like hot dogs "kill more Americans every year than tobacco does, and they cost taxpayers billions of dollars in healthcare."
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
-—Hamburgers are a balanced meal. Skip the soda and fries——
Yup. If they could invent a low-carb roll, it would be perfect.
It was thanks to him I found out about Ray’s Hell Burger. Why take away the only thing he is good for?
Why don’t healthcare advocacy groups just mind their own f’n business?
And to think that black clothing is slimming.....
Help me out, I’m trying to remember the basic food groups ...
Sugar
Starch
Fat
Alcohol
Seems to me I’m missing one. Milkshakes?
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