Mrs. Obama: 'Indian Country' Fights Obesity by Adding 'Buffalo Meat into School Lunches'

CNS News ^ | 10/9/2012 | Penny Star

[IbJensen]

(CNSNews.com) – In marking the one year anniversary of Let’s Move! in Indian Country, First Lady Michelle Obama praised the work done by Native American and Alaskan American communities in fighting childhood obestiy by, among other things, adding "traditional foods like buffalo meat into school lunches."

A year ago, Mrs. Obama joined Native American children in the White House garden to launch Let’s Move in Indian Country by planting the “three sisters”--corn, beans and squash.

“This is such an important issue,” Mrs. Obama said in the video marking the one-year anniversary of the program. “We know that children in American Indian and Alaskan Native communities experience higher rates of obesity.

“We know they’re more likely to develop related diseases like Type II diabetes than the national averages,” Mrs. Obama said.

“But we also know that there are so many people in these communities who want to make a difference for the health of their kids,” Mrs. Obama said. “And that’s what has defined Let’s Move! in Indian Country in our first year.

“We’ve seen tribal nations develop food policy councils to examine the food habits of their communities,” Mrs. Obama said. “Schools have reintroduced Lacrosse programs. Native businesses are adding healthy, traditional foods like buffalo meat into school lunches.”

The Department of Interior states the goals of the Let’s Move! in Indian Country as: Creating a healthy start in life; developing healthy learning; communities increasing physical activities; and increasing access to affordable, healthy and traditional foods

“Let's Move! in Indian Country is a comprehensive initiative dedicated to solving the problem of obesity within a generation, so that children born today will grow up healthier and able to pursue their dreams,” the Department of Interior website states. “This is an ambitious goal. But with your help, we can do it."

Mrs. Obama said there is more left to do. "And that's where all of you come in," she said. "We need your help to get more schools serving healthy foods and finding new ways to get kids to get active."

[bunkerhill7]

Obummer is married to a buffalo.

[trisham]

"And there’s no doubt that this is a serious problem. It’s one that is affecting every community across this country.

But just like with so many other challenges that we face as a nation, the African American community is being hit even harder by this issue.

We are living today in a time where we’re decades beyond slavery, we are decades beyond Jim Crow; when one of the greatest risks to our children’s future is their own health.

African American children are significantly more likely to be obese than are white children.

Nearly half of African American children will develop diabetes at some point in their lives.

People, that’s half of our children. "

~Michelle Obama

Please click the pic

[scbison]

Everybody calls it a buffalo, but really are American Bison!!! There isn’t any kind of buffalo in North America.

[greatvikingone]

“Nearly half of African American children will develop diabetes at some point in their lives. People, that’s half of our children.”

That is some goofy math - half of African American children = half of all children?

[youngidiot]

Amen and bravo! The idea that fat is bad comes from the idiotic Eastern idea that you take on the properties of whatever you eat. Somehow when you eat fat it ends up in your heart, clogging things up. Funny how nothing else works this way. Nobody believes that carrots and potatoes clog up your heart. The very idea that fat is bad for you and ends up clogging your heart is preposterous.

[left that other site]

Back in the day, we were told that the poor kids on the rez were malnourished because all they had to eat were “Beans, squash, and cornmeal, with the occasional bit of wild meat”.

We, on the other hand, were blessed to live in the city where we could have meat, potatoes, veggies, Peanut butter and jelly, cookies, and plenty of milk and NICE WHITE BREAD.

We were told to clean our plates, because the poor Indian kids on the rez were starving.

[Wyatt's Torch]

I love bison and it would be a great alternative...just not forced down our throats by the imperial government. Stay the f**k out of it Moosehell...

[jakerobins]

I think someone else can have the nick name Buffalo Butt!

[spaced]

“One of the paintings shows a tribe on horseback driving an entire herd of buffalo off a cliff.”

Archeological digs indicate this was done, even before Indians had horses. (I read about it in “1491.”)

[P.O.E.]

What, no great green gobs of greasy grimy gopher guts?

Hey Moochelle - who the blank do you think you are telling us what to eat, you hippo-crite.

[trisham]

Coming from the “First Lady”, it does seem an odd thing to say.

[count-your-change]

It’s a beefaloe!

[TheRhinelander]

I far prefer the taste of grass fed over grain fed any day. In fact the burger Ii buy in my town is all local grown grass fed and I gladly pay the extra cash per pound for the good stuff!

[Iron Munro]

How can we miss her if she won't go away?

Yep - she's a 47%-er all right.

She has gotten used to living in government housing and getting that government check every month.

It might be worth a trip to DC on January 20 just to see the Secret Service drag her butt out of the people's house.

She will be screaming, kicking, digging her nails into the woodwork.....

[Iron Munro]

Lets Move ‘em out of the white house in November.....

[AAABEST]

Animal fat is not bad for you and doesn’t make you fat

Thank you. I'm so tired of the conventional wisdom (promoted by everyone including the Feds) that keeps telling people to poison themselves with processed carbs and sugars.

It's one thing for this woman to exist as an ABJECT MORON. It's quite another for her to force her moronic ideas on our children.

[TheRhinelander]

It’s like when I blogged about the war on salt and told people that not everyone has adverse effects from it. I was accused of playing doctor despite the fact that i told people to check with their doctor!

We’ve been misled for years. I’ve eaten two hard boiled eggs a day from my chickens for a couple years now with no increase in cholesterol. Another myth (for most people, not all)

[ApplegateRanch]

Someone ask Mrs. Obama if she advocates eating those native American meals.

She would probably approve of coyote stew: "tastes just like dog!"

Or, do the entire world a favor: roasted, stuffed prairie dog.