Me? Not so much.
Posted on 09/13/2010 10:31:22 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
FLOTUS urges restaurants to change menus By Elise Viebeck - 09/13/10 12:39 PM ET
First lady Michelle Obama is urging restaurant owners to consider "reformulating" menus to address childhood obesity.
In a speech Monday morning to the National Restaurant Association in Washington, D.C., Obama called on restaurants to offer a wider variety of "healthy choices" as part of her "Let's Move!" campaign.
"I'm not asking any of you to make drastic changes to every single one of your recipes or to totally change the way you do business," she said. "But what I am asking is that you consider reformulating your menu in pragmatic and incremental ways to create healthier versions of the foods that we all love."
She praised restaurant owners for their role in "our own lives and in the life of our nation."
"You’re responsible for one-third of the calories our kids get on a daily basis," she said. "The choices you make determine what’s listed on the menus, what’s advertised on billboards and what’s served on our plates."
She later gave examples of how restaurants could promote greater health, saying some dishes could be prepared with less butter or cream and that portion sizes could be reduced.
"Right now, many restaurants ... are serving more low-fat dishes, whole grain breads, fruit on the side. Some are even offering kid-size portions of the meals they serve on the main menu. And chefs across the country are partnering with local schools to help them make healthy choices.
"But as positive as these examples are, the reality is it’s just not enough," she added. "Together, we have to do more. We have to go further."
She has the ass of a water buffalo and hips the size of a whale, why is she telling me what to eat?
FUMO!
Mind Your Own Business Alert
“First lady Michelle Obama is urging restaurant owners to consider “reformulating” menus to address childhood obesity.”
In a related story, she also is concerned with clothing styles that do not help conceal three axe handle rear ends and linebacker shoulders.
Must be part of that “Hopey-Changey” thing we’ve heard so much about!
I would imagine that a lot of restaurants are already doing something like this; or that there are enough choices on a menu to pick something that is realtively healthy.
How about putting blame where it belongs-on poor parenting? If the parents are lard-butts ordering double bacon cheeseburgers with super sized fries and drinks, the kids will eat the same way.
Which doesn't belong and why?
Yes, and if any of these businesses don't comply, you can bet that the full force of one or more federal alphabet-soup agencies will be on them like white on rice.
Regulation is control. And if one controls a thing, one can destroy a thing. Something creatures like MObama know all too well.
That statement is offensive...to Winnebagos.
Nope, Bark will do that!
If Carla is on the left, who is in the middle?
MO’s is as wide as the other two combined.
Do as I say, not as I do...
thats racist...8^}
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