Posted on 02/10/2012 6:25:44 AM PST by Michael van der Galien
Hold the mystery meat: Military mess halls soon will be serving more fruits, vegetables and low-fat dishes under the first program in 20 years to improve nutrition standards across the armed services.
First lady Michelle Obama and Pentagon officials announced the effort Thursday during a visit to Little Rock Air Force Base in Arkansas, where the military has been experimenting with ways to improve the quality and variety of foods served on base. The first lady toured a gleaming cafeteria line, then announced the program in a dining hall filled with service members whose plates were overflowing with salad greens, broccoli and whole grains.
You all look really good, really fit,” she told the airmen. “Thank you for eating your vegetables. We need you strong.”
She encouraged healthy habits during a visit with individual airmen at their tables.
“Don’t worry, you’ll be a vegetable guy soon,” she reassured one airman.
She stressed that it’s not just about giving members of the armed services a more svelte profile: There are big national security and budget implications.
About a quarter of entry-level candidates for the military are too overweight to serve or to make it through their first enlistment, according to the Pentagon. And the Defense Department spends $1.1 billion a year on medical care related to excess weight and obesity.
Under the Military Health System’s new obesity and nutrition awareness campaign, more fruits, vegetables, whole grains, lean meats and lower-fat entrees will be coming to the 1,100 service member dining halls across the United States in coming months. Healthier choices will be turning up in base schools, vending machines and snack bars, too, affecting more than 1.5 million service members.
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L frickin’ OL! ..A green salad MRE,How gross that would be? I’m imagining it and it makes me want to puke. You just want some shit on a shingle, not Bambi rabbit food, something that stays with you when your about to go out and do something strenuous. She’s just way out of her element, I guess she means well(?), but what a ditz to stay married to one of the guys who’s going to go down in history as being the worst, most wrong headed presidents the USA ever had...way surpassing Jimmy Carter.
Hahahaha
Thanks, saved it.
LOL! They don’t look too thrilled do they? I guess they couldn’t round up enough fake cheerleaders. Most of the military despises these people and that is a fact, not speculation.
Don't bet on it, Pig!
Turnip soup three times a day is on the way for the military guys. This country is looking more and more like North Korea with each passing day.
You’re most welcome...
Awesome comic depiction...relays precisely the prevailing thinking among the military and many other patriots regardless of party or religious (or non) affiliations, They are actually being too kind in some of the “balloon” statements...I saved it to!..gonna spread this one around.
You must live here in New Orleans.
“You can have my S.O.S. when I regurgitate it from my fat satisfied gut.”
Oh, I’m with you! S.O.S. is a breakfast experience not to be missed.
“Individuals make pretty bad decisions—decisions they would not have made if they had paid full attention and possessed complete information, unlimited cognitive abilities, and complete self-control.”
In other words, the average American doesn’t pay attention, is uninformed, has limited reasoning and intellectual capacity, and lacks self-control. Uninformed people are incapable of making the right decisions in their life but the elistists know what the people need and must, therefore, prod or nudge them into making the correct choices. Thayer and Sunstein state,
http://lizblaine.com/2011/02/14/michelle-obama-lets-lie-and-other-smart-parenting-techniques-from-the-left/“It would be quite fantastic to suggest that everyone is choosing the right diet, or a diet that is preferable to what might be produced with a few nudges.
“The false assumption is that almost all people, almost all of the time, make choices that are in their best interest or at the very least are better than the choices that would be made by someone else.
“It seems reasonable to say that people make good choices in contexts in which they have experience, good information, and prompt feedback—say, choosing among ice cream flavors. People know whether they like chocolate, vanilla, coffee, licorice, or something else. They do less well in contexts in which they are inexperienced and poorly informed . . . say, in choosing between fruit and ice cream . . . or in choosing among medical treatments or investment options.”
Dumb broad doesn’t seem to know that we work out at least an hour every day.
Not to worry, the would be terrorist would not affect me in my location unless he had a suitcase nuke.
I think I got this figured out. If More people eat less junk food that leaves more junk fod for THE WHOOKIE to eat. I think she’s afraid we might run out snacks and is just thinking head.
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