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First lady: Anti-obesity effort not about government telling ‘people what to do’
The Hill ^ | March 12, 2012 | Alicia M. Cohn

Posted on 03/12/2012 1:59:35 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

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To: SWAMPSNIPER

That’s so true.

Wouldn’t it be nice if a “journalist” asked that question?

Or maybe one of our elected Republicans?


41 posted on 03/12/2012 3:02:43 PM PDT by Fishtalk (http://patfish.blogspot.com/)
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To: Sioux-san
Baloney. I am healthier than a lot of skinny bones working out every day, blowing their knees and their hips...but hey, you’re thin, so who cares! Everyone get off my back for being a chub. Do you think it should be a condition of employment to be thin? That’s where this is all going, and it stinks!!!!

It is a fact obesity is driving up HC cost to sky high levels. Rampant diabetes, HBP, sleep apnea, joint problems due to weight, gastric reflux problems, on and on. Very few people I know who are fit are blowing out their knees and hips. Yes, there are some who overdo it but they are not the norm just as your being overweight and not having any health problems as a result is not the norm.

If companies don't want to hire fat people I have no problem with that. They can run their company as they see fit (no pun intended)and I do not want the gov't to be involved in any way.

42 posted on 03/12/2012 3:03:47 PM PDT by trailhkr1
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Exactly, that is the best way to fight this.. drive them NUTS and keep hitting the same nerve :)


43 posted on 03/12/2012 3:05:36 PM PDT by eXe (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: trailhkr1
My sister passed away from skin Cancer. (she was 29)
She was NOT overweight, I was living in Montana, I could not get there. (I-94 was shut down, due to snow)
44 posted on 03/12/2012 3:13:08 PM PDT by the lastbestlady (I now believe that we have two lives; the life we learn with and the life we live with after that.)
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To: TexasCajun

Are your daughters being fed that nasty pink slime at their private school?

Have you gone to that school and revamped their cafeteria menu?

Are you, Mooch, the one who has ordered the gestapo to investigate the children’s bag lunches and determined what is considered acceptable?


45 posted on 03/12/2012 3:16:34 PM PDT by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: TexasCajun
a problem that’s this big and affects so many people requires everyone to step up.

Yeah, Moochell, howz' about you get your rather large behind to do a few "step ups" and, dammit, leave us alone, you big grifter.

46 posted on 03/12/2012 3:18:59 PM PDT by laweeks
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To: BfloGuy
I wouldn’t think poorly about the First Lady’s crusade against childhood obesity if it didn’t come with regulations, legislation, tax dollars spent, and an a$$ on her the size of Detroit. . . . .filthy, filthy hypocrisy on that fat bag of wind.
47 posted on 03/12/2012 3:21:50 PM PDT by laweeks
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Must be getting close to election time, DAMAGE CONTROL!


48 posted on 03/12/2012 3:24:12 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

The FAT Lady, FUMO, just plain lies.


49 posted on 03/12/2012 3:32:49 PM PDT by bfree (The revolution is coming - OBAMI IS THE ENEMY OF FREEDOM)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

50 posted on 03/12/2012 3:33:38 PM PDT by Albion Wilde ("The facts of life are Tory." -- Margaret Thatcher)
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To: SunkenCiv

Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters. – Daniel Webster (1782-1852)


51 posted on 03/12/2012 3:35:58 PM PDT by rmlew ("Mosques are our barracks, minarets our bayonets, domes our helmets, the believers our soldiers.")
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Everything this crew of Nazi’s do is designed to control what the public eats,reads,watches drives and will use to keep well and when we get ill they’ll even control that through their fiasco of a health care bill.She Just Lies like her husband.


52 posted on 03/12/2012 3:39:23 PM PDT by puppypusher (The World is going to the dogs.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
"I wish I could eat french fries every single day."


53 posted on 03/12/2012 3:47:33 PM PDT by Miss Behave (All ways always.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

I suggest Moosechelle starts with her own house and takes care of that first.I hate that schools are spending so much and throwing most out with kids refusing to eat it.


54 posted on 03/12/2012 3:56:09 PM PDT by chris_bdba
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

She only hates sugar because it’s...White!


55 posted on 03/12/2012 4:11:14 PM PDT by BigCinBigD
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To: FrankR

Was she the one who had that “Pink Sime” included in the kids lunch program?


56 posted on 03/12/2012 4:15:23 PM PDT by mortal19440
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To: mortal19440

Slime, sorry.


57 posted on 03/12/2012 4:16:16 PM PDT by mortal19440
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To: Bryanw92

OHHH what a graphic....put a moving van in front of the white house and put “let’s move” in front!


58 posted on 03/12/2012 4:23:26 PM PDT by chris_bdba
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To: rmlew

saving for later. :’)


59 posted on 03/12/2012 4:24:26 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

She. Is. Not. The. Boss. Of. Me!!!

Thank GOD that my kids are homeschooling their daughter! She
can have what she wants...and they know better than Moochelle
what is good for her and what isn’t!


60 posted on 03/12/2012 4:26:25 PM PDT by luvie (This space reserved for heroes............my AF son....our troops....the vets from all wars...)
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