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Food Regulations of the Future? A sneak preview of the coming War on Obesity.
American Spectator ^ | 3.29.13 | MARTA H. MOSSBURG

Posted on 03/30/2013 4:38:13 PM PDT by neverdem

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To: The Working Man
That’s why I say CWII or Revolution II depending on how you look at it, is inevitable. Truly it’s that or we just lie down and let the steamroller do the job on us.

This is the sentence I would agree with most; however, I think the U.S. will collapse before 2020. The brokest nation on the face of the earth won't have the power to do such regulations.

21 posted on 03/30/2013 5:22:29 PM PDT by Stepan12
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To: neverdem

This is BS. Fat welfare momma will get her burgers and Buckwheat can’t stop it.


22 posted on 03/30/2013 5:25:02 PM PDT by sergeantdave
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To: neverdem

This seems to be a shortsighted view of the future. If the left truly has its way there will be shortages in just about everything especially food. The North Koreans certainly don’t have an obesity problem, and I doubt they have many regs governing calorie intake and BMI.


23 posted on 03/30/2013 5:25:41 PM PDT by paint_your_wagon
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To: The Working Man; All

Well, at least it might hold down the cost of Obamacare. ;-)


24 posted on 03/30/2013 5:36:05 PM PDT by gleeaikin
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To: neverdem

How about this?

You pay with your own money, you order anything you want, no questions asked.

You pay with food stamps, your choices are limited to diet drinks, milk, salad, and fruit.


25 posted on 03/30/2013 5:37:18 PM PDT by randita
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To: neverdem
I would like to extend my sympathy to these latest targets of the FedMob
nannies. But I'm a smoker so ... drop and give Uncle Sam ten.
26 posted on 03/30/2013 5:49:57 PM PDT by TigersEye (The irresponsible should not be leading the responsible.)
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To: TigersEye

“I would like to extend my sympathy to these latest targets of the FedMob
nannies. But I’m a smoker so ... drop and give Uncle Sam ten.”

If they are going to discriminate against smokers (which IS the plan), I’m going to have a major problem paying for the treatment of 300 pound diabetics, people who live on Cheeze-Its and beer, drug addicts, AIDS/STD patients who acquired the disease from being promiscuous, skydivers who get hurt, people who drive drunk, without seat belts, people injured playing sports...where will this end??


27 posted on 03/30/2013 5:59:01 PM PDT by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.")
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To: randita

“You pay with food stamps, your choices are limited to diet drinks, milk, salad, and fruit.”

I have a fundamental problem understanding why this is somehow not “fair”. Liberals want society to be “fair”...right? How come no one cares about “fairness” to taxpayers?


28 posted on 03/30/2013 6:01:13 PM PDT by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.")
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To: varon

Those were the days, huh?

Alas, seemingly gone forever; America has become a nation of wimps and freeloaders.


29 posted on 03/30/2013 6:01:52 PM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: All
This article might be satire but the one linked below is not.
ObamaCare Coming to a Public School Near You May 12, 2012

Well, in addition to the health care “exchanges” in the states, ObamaCare has provided for health care centers to be built and run right out of your neighborhood public schools. The Obama administration is rolling out its plans to pour the millions of dollars the Democrats in Congress allocated to the law into “school-based health centers.” The law includes funds to build and run clinics to give students free diagnoses, treatment for chronic medical conditions and mental health screenings.

On Wednesday, Kathleen Sebelius announced that another $75 million in taxpayer funds is “available” to build health clinics in schools. $200 million was appropriated by Congressional Democrats for the School-Based Health Center Capital Program, and the current $75 million is the third in a series of grants available to these school-based health centers.

Why do we want our schools “tracking” our children’s health data? What happens if your child doesn’t “fit in” with the “recommendations?” Are student’s grades going to be impacted by failure to meet health “recommendations?” Could it be suggested that some parents are not meeting their parental responsibilities because their children are overweight, or not doing the required number of jumping jacks, or seem uncomfortable with the curriculum on healthy homosexual relationships?


30 posted on 03/30/2013 6:02:34 PM PDT by TigersEye (The irresponsible should not be leading the responsible.)
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To: Stepan12

“That is, if we have a future as America will have long collapsed before the government thinks this one up.”

Probably true...we have basically been “paying off” the irresponsible not to riot for years. No more money = riots. That’s why the big purchases of ammo recently.


31 posted on 03/30/2013 6:07:15 PM PDT by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.")
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To: neverdem

A war on fat people can’t come soon enough!!!

fat people are a visual blight!!!


32 posted on 03/30/2013 6:08:10 PM PDT by dalereed
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Community Health Needs Assessments (CHNA) Requirements

The Community Health Needs Assessment is a provision of the Affordable Care Act. It is a requirement for all non-profit, non-governmental hospitals that file IRS Form 990; it is a public document that must be posted on a hospital’s website.

The CHNA requirements become effective starting with the first tax year beginning after March 23, 2012, and must be filed every three years.

Specific community healthcare needs and how the hospital is meeting them must be identified by the CHNA. The hospital must also develop action plans to meet the needs of the community, monitor them and report progress on their implementation.


33 posted on 03/30/2013 6:11:04 PM PDT by TigersEye (The irresponsible should not be leading the responsible.)
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HHS awards nearly $100 million in grants for public health and prevention priorities(From the hhs.gov website)

The Affordable Care Act’s Prevention and Public Health Fund grants will support state and community efforts to fight obesity, increase HIV testing, promote tobacco quit lines, expand mental health and substance abuse programs and track, monitor and respond to disease outbreaks

$9.3 million in support of obesity biometric efforts

Six communities - all of which were part of the original 44 Communities Putting Prevention to Work (CPPW) communities funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) will divide $9.3 million in support of obesity efforts to examine change in community-level variables (such as change in use of cafeteria foods), and body mass index and related biometric measures.

“These new evaluation funds will help our country identify effective and promising obesity prevention strategies. This funding will evaluate community-level obesity prevention initiatives aimed at creating healthy environments that promote nutrition and physical activity in the places where adults and children work, eat, study and play,” said Dr. Rebecca Bunnell, the program director for the Communities Putting Prevention to Work initiative at CDC. “Preventing obesity is critical for our nation’s future and we need to make sure we are investing every obesity prevention dollar wisely.”


34 posted on 03/30/2013 6:22:39 PM PDT by TigersEye (The irresponsible should not be leading the responsible.)
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To: The Antiyuppie

I think any mention of discrimination against smokers should be put in the past tense not the future tense.


35 posted on 03/30/2013 6:25:06 PM PDT by TigersEye (The irresponsible should not be leading the responsible.)
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To: Stepan12

It’s dated March 29, 2020


36 posted on 03/30/2013 6:25:48 PM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: dalereed
A war on fat people can’t come soon enough!!!

fat people are a visual blight!!!

Did you forget the sarcasm tag? If not, pardon me (and many other FReepers) for being a blight to your vision and disturbing your zen, as I'm sure you're 100% physically perfect.

...and be sure to let us know the next time you walk on water.

37 posted on 03/30/2013 7:12:57 PM PDT by Fast Moving Angel (A moral wrong is not a civil right: No religious sanction of an irreligious act.)
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To: neverdem

If keeping junk food in the food stamp program means regulating everyone else’s eating ...

Well, hey: that’s a ‘two-fer’ for the government!


38 posted on 03/30/2013 7:19:44 PM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat Party!)
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To: neverdem

The Wookie will have multiple orgasms if she reads this.


39 posted on 03/30/2013 7:38:30 PM PDT by upchuck (Free Republic: faster than a speeding bullet!)
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To: paint_your_wagon

Bingo!
The excess calories will be gone soon enough.


40 posted on 03/30/2013 7:54:44 PM PDT by SisterK (Bill Whittle for president)
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