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from:msnbc.comAfter laying the groundwork for nearly a year, first lady Michelle Obama launches a campaign on Tuesday against childhood obesity that she hopes will change the way millions of Americans eat, exercise, look and feel.
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We have a generation of children that will have been obese their entire lives.
Someone needs to purchase a license plate for that rear end of hers !!
Wish parents would take more responsibility for this. The first lady is worried about your kid being fat but you as a parent let them spend all day in front of the computer on facebook or playing Xbox. While diet does play a role, simply letting kids be active maintains a higher metabolism which helps counter the effects of some of the crap they eat. Maybe instead of a Playstation for Christmas get them a goddamn bicycle. When I was a kid I was always outside skateboarding, climbing trees, playing ball or running around the neighborhood until it was dark. That's how you stay ahead of the Snack Packs.
Good for Michelle, something positive. the best approach to health care reform I have heard of and no tax hikes for this one yet?
considering half of her ideas involve increasing federal money i can see tax increases in the future. sorry but parental responsiblility is the key here, dont penalise companies producing junk food, its the parents responsiblility to say no and to control the intake, its not the schools responsibility to provide free healthy lunches, you want healthy the parents should step up and make a healthy packed lunch, the parents should get the kids moving etc, sorry mrs obama do what you can but keep your hands out of my pockets whilst doing it.
great post hometowngirl.
Why purchase sandwich stuff and fruit with the money people get from gov't handouts when it is much much easier to just get the free lunch program and let the kids choose their own great big burrito with chips and soda. I believe most parents don't have a clue or really care to have a clue as to what their kids eat for lunch. Also healthy food is much more expensive to buy so in comes the ground beef and other inexpensive unhealthy food from the store.
Poor people usually eat poor food and she is never going to be able to change that. Most people don't send their children to private school with real chefs and most people don't have personal chefs at home to only prepare the best and most nutritious food.
Fat ass.
Good article and is an extremely necessary cause. The American diet is making us not only obese, from childhood on up, but we are malnourished because the food we eat and feed our children is lacking in nutritional value.
But we don't need a fat chick telling us how to feed our kids.
When you throw dirt, you lose ground.
SHe is?!?! Kids are less Obesce due to Michelle Obama?!?!
Title says she IS Tackling Child Obescity! I think thats going to take some time, don't you?
Yeah real need, though! Hope she DOES TACKLE this!
she'll be tackling it out of our white house in 3 years from her law practice. oh, yeah, she was disbarred. ahahahhaahhhahahahhaa
Show proof that she was disbarred!
There are certainly benefits to promoting healthy eating habits as a lifestyle directly to children. Funding is certainly an issue but too often we make everything about funding and end up duplicating efforts truly pouring too much money at a situation. Often times when programs become "constellations" they duplicate are are easily abused by those who do not need the program.
Below are the stats for my State. taken from the Texas Department of Agriculture square meals web site.
http://www.squaremeals.org/fn/render/channel/items/0,1249,2348_2368_0_0,00.html
Perhaps if Michelle were to appeal to and work with State Governors as an advocate she could make the most of the dollars spent instead of looking for further federal funding. States have budgets for this sort of promotion and I am sure her advocacy would be welcome.
Sadly, the free and reduced lunch school program is a very easy source to abuse. There seem to be no checks and balances. Some districts mandate, under penalty to the child, that the documentation is completed even if families know they do not qualify. Some families will lie without regard because they like paying less and there appears to be no verification system to assure honesty and go figure people cheat.
Good for her, soda and junk food are poisoning a lot of Americans, especially kids.
I do agree that junk food and soda in excess are poisoning, but who is ultimately responsible? The parents choosing to buy it. No one forces them. Everything in moderation is a good rule to live by. An occasional soda or quick trip to Carls Jr once in a while isn't bad, but when it becomes a crutch and a quick, lazy way to feed the kids on a regular basis then it becomes a matter of choices and consequences. I can make turkey sandwiches on multigrain bread with carrot sticks and a glass of water in the same amount of time it takes to pass through the drive through at McDonalds. Are we to punish companies because of irresponsible decisions by the consumer?
shaq, errrrr michelle is a lard ass who eats fries and this bitch wants to tell me how to feed my kids. where in the constitution does the regime get the authority to dictate what our kids eat and drink? stay out of our lives, these frauds are out of control. another waste of taxpayer money to feed inner city mooches health food. f uck this @!$%#!!!!
I rarely agree with a thing you say, mr. turner, but I read your posts to see if I can learn something I hadn't considered. After reading this one, I see no reason to read anything else from you, since you can't make your point without being a turd.
Can you say food police. Great, more bureaucrats sticking their noses in our business.
Kids need to just stay active. then they can eat all they want... whatever they want. it's all about keepin' the metabolism up. I'm in my late 30's and never gain weight so long as I stay active at work or on weekends. I eat alot of anything. I also notice during slow periods at work, when I'm on my ass more than my feet. I tend to gain about 10-20 pounds. It all goes away in a week or two after I get active again.
Maintaining weight is easy. Just dont let it tilt too far and it can always be easily removed. So get yer butts movin', if you want the weight to get movin'.
Hell, if nothing else... just skip a couple meals a day once or twice a week. It is certainly not unhealthy to do so and you sure as hell aint gonna starve.
It isn't all about weight gain, thin people can have nutritional deficiencies, clogged arteries, high cholesterol, cancer, too...
before SHE try's telling anyone what their children should eat or drink, SHE needs to join jenny craig. in one year it's plain to see SHE has added at least 40 pounds to her butt.
Is she now finished with her fashion shows and trying to act like a first-lady?
Michelle has something following her, and it isn't her legacy.
"That's the legacy I want," she said. "I want to leave something behind that we can say, because of this time that this person spent here, this thing has changed."
That says it all-she's wants to be remembered!! This article failed to mention the federal obesity task force which is going to be formed at our expense.....
Of course she wants to leave some kind of legacy. She's just like her husband who wants to leave some kind of legacy regardless of how much it's going to cost us.
I do my damndest to make sure my kids eat healthy and get out there and play instead of watching the boob tube. It's the parents job to keep their kids healthy.
Mrs. Obama, if you want to advocate this, fine. Just do it wihtout spending my money.
First of all,,,I am saying this very loudly and very sternly "Stay away from my Kids!"
Secondly, the problem with obese children is/are their Parents.. That iswho her royal highass should be talking too...
When your average Welfare, Inner City, Ghetto, Disadvantaged, financially challenged single Parent believes a Hot Dog, Chips and a Soda is a healthy dinner for their kids, there in lays the real problem... Fats, sugar galore, and carbs....And working with Law Enforcement I saw this a thousand times. Pizza was next on the least with a huge bottle of Soda...Because the paid to stay at home Mommy had to watch Oprah instead of making a great healthy meal for her Children..And if she was smart, the cost of all those items would have provided nearly two healthy meals instead of just the unhealthy One.
So if her royal highass and know it all wants to actually help Obese children and not just continue on with the campaign to get at our kids,,she needs to start with their parents..But that also takes smarts,,
This is just another Liberal backdoor way to get at our Kids.. Not being paranoid, or conspiracy theorist, but it is funny how her husband is up to same thing from a different angle,,Machines....The Obama's are doing everything possible to stick their noses into everyone's business where it does not even remotely belong... They have proved in one year as to their abilities as their line of failures continue to mount,,so stay away from my kids...they need winners for role models not the Obama's of this country... I don't want my kids to become "Children of the State"...
you got it right.
Just a tad paranoid, eddie?
A little paranoia is a good thing. The Obama's have been giving us plenty to be paranoid about for the past year or so.
oh my god, oh my god, oh my god......PLEASE don't teach our children that vegetables are healthier than candy....please, PLEASE don't take away the ability for my child to purchase Doritos to eat in between classes - the horror, the horror!!!! PLEASE, PLEASE don't teach our children basic concepts of health, after all a publicly funded education should be about making sure our children can eat what they want instead of learn!!! I can't believe our government would DARE to show our children basic health concepts as part of an education....
Jesus Christ...no one is telling you that you can't feed your children all the junk you want....no one is even saying you can't pack them all the junk you want in their lunches. School shouldn't be a convenient store, it should be a facility of learning and I'm really unsure how teaching kids how to be healthy even became a partisan issue - we should all wish for the best for our children....
I am with you on this one :)
Tha nk goodness she is tackling 'childhood obesity'. I'm old and fat, so I should be able to stay under the radar.
This is just like when I get marital advise from friends who've been divorced three times. Tend to your own garden, Michelle. And have you called Jenny?
I've got a great idea;
hows abouts we like give more money to da peoples of welfare, so's that they can like, buy more good food. YEAH...YEAH... those on welfare will promise to stop buying junk food, and buy more good stuff. And hows abouts we like give more tax money back from taxes to welfare getter's. This ways they can like buy food thats like good for them.
Hey Michelle, enjoy your four (4) year free rental in Washington, believe me, your "rental agreement" won't be renewed.
I am a fan of the Obama's, but I see too much seperation. In her launching of the overweight children's program, I saw all black children, also in her garden project last summer. Doesn't this create a divide rather than a unite message? If the program featured just white kids, comments would be made by black churches and leaders.
However, she did say that to eat healthy, the food stamps program must be increased.
This will be funded by the savings generated when we slow down health care for all those over 75.
Nutrition and exercise play a minor role compared to the real culprit: GENETICS. Of course, a discussion that includes some recently elucidated genetic mechanisms that contribute to obesity is not only beyond the understanding of the media, politicians, and entertainers, but would serve to undermine the true objective of the First Lady's agenda: CONTROL by way of nanny-ism.
When you throw dirt, you lose ground.
Parents are the ones responsible for their childrens health, aside from diease. If you have a fatty for a kid, make them put down the game controller and go out and play.
BTW, Michelle, you got fat knees and a double chin. Who are you to preach?