Posted on 05/09/2012 5:59:03 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Doctors call on President Obama to stop eating junk food in public By Elise Viebeck - 05/09/12 08:11 AM ET
A physicians' healthcare advocacy group is preparing to file a petition calling on President Obama to stop eating hamburgers, hot dogs and other unhealthy foods before cameras.
"As role model to millions of Americans, the president has a responsibility to watch what he eats in public," said Susan Levin, nutrition education director with the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM).
Obama's occasional stops at Washington, D.C.-area burger joints always receive press attention.
He famously treated staff to lunch at Good Stuff Eatery on Capitol Hill in August 2011. A year before that, he and then-Russian president Dmitry Medvedev grabbed food at Ray's Hell Burger in Arlington, Va.
And in March, during a visit to Ohio with British Prime Minister David Cameron, he ate hot dogs while watching college basketball.
Levin said in a statement that processed meats like hot dogs "kill more Americans every year than tobacco does, and they cost taxpayers billions of dollars in healthcare."
She cited increasing rates of obesity in the United States. A study out this week projects that 42 percent of Americans will be obese by 2030.
"The White House would never set up a photo op showing the president buying cigarettes, so why is it okay to show him eating a hot dog?" she added.
Obama, an ex-smoker, kicked the habit in 2010, the first lady has said.
Despite Obama's taste for unhealthy foods, some media outlets have reported that the president appears to have lost weight since beginning his term.
PCRM's petition asks the White House to issue an executive order barring the president, the first family, the vice president and all members of the Obama cabinet from eating foods in public "that can cause cancer and obesity."
A release noted that eating processed meats was shown in a recent study to increase the risk of premature death.
The group will file the petition on Thursday.
Besides, junk food isn’t Halal.
I always make the exact same argument about pizza! Excellent crusty bread, tomatoes, a bit of cheese, a tad of oil, and lots of veggies. Sometimes throw on a bit of sausage, too.
That’s like Bill Cosby’s rationale for giving his kids chocolate cake for breakfast...”What’s in chocolate cake...Eggs.....and Milk! NUTRITION! And the kids were singing praises to me, ‘Dad is great...he let’s us eat chocolate cake’....and everybody was having a great time.....UNTIL....”
There would be the makings of Obama's first "Sister Souljah moment" here, if Obama were to respond by saying that, "the American people are sick and tired of leftist extremist advocacy organizations such as the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine and nanny statist government officials trying to micromanage our lives, and so when I am re-elected I will make it my priority to reduce government meddling in everyone's lives, starting with repeal of Obamacare", he would get a lot of plaudits and maybe even some additional votes (but nobody would actually believe him).
Eat Your Peas!!!!!!
They also called on him to stop hitting the bottle so much, if I recall correctly.
I like you!
The guy eats dog meat and he is our roll model?
Nonsense. This is a dopey premise.
I get a survey every year from my health insurer, if I don’t fill it out they will raise my premiums.
They ask things like, what I eat and how much of it, how I exercise and how often, do I use tobacco products, alcohol?
I quit smoking about 4 years ago but prior to that, I simply lied on the form and said that I had never smoked and do not drink alcoholic beverages. The part about alcoholic beverages is true but it’s still none of their business.
They have already raised the rates of admitted tobacco users. Alcohol is next, no matter if you drink in moderation or not. Then will come raises for people who don’t exercise, then for people who don’t eat their correct amount of fruit and veggies.
The only question that is notably absent is whether I lead the queer life style, a known and very expensive, for insurers, killer.
“only the elite can afford” SPINACH? I grow it....it’s easy....
HAHAHAHA...you bad
I personally thiink those two are doing things that they think ‘whitey’ considers normal- BO riding a girl’s bike with a helmet, BO hanging curtains, eating ice cream and hotdogs and her unhinging her jaw to accommodate large amounts of taxpayer paid for food not approved for Americans, only people like her who we, as her lowly subjects, don’t deserve.
I never saw a single picture of them doing any of those things before the ballot boxes were stuffed.
Barry should know better, YOU ALWAYS LET THE WOOKIE WIN! Because droids don’t rip your arms outta your sockets....
The totalitarian wannabes had best stop lying. They do not speak for American “doctors.”
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