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Army Dietitian Touts Warning Labels for Desserts and Fried Foods at Mess Halls
By Elizabeth Harrington
February 27, 2012
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http://cnsnews.com/news/article/army-dietitian-touts-warning-labels-desserts-and-fried-foods-mess-halls
First Lady Michelle Obama eats with recruits at a U.S. Army mess hall during a visit to Fort Jackson near Columbia, South Carolina in January. (AP Photo)
(CNSNews.com) – The healthy eating campaign has the U.S. military in its sights.
During a panel discussion Thursday on how government can promote healthy eating habits, the U.S. Army touted its mess hall labeling system that places warning on desserts and fried foods.
The event, held at the Bipartisan Policy Center in Washington, saw Lt. Col. Sonya Cable highlight the “Go for Green” program, which labels healthy foods green, moderate foods amber, and high calorie foods red.
The nutrition education program alerts soldiers that “red” foods like bacon and apple pie should only be eaten rarely, with a warning: “limit intake.” Foods labeled green, however, such as mustard greens, are deemed “premium fuel for the soldier athlete,” “fresh and flavorful” and “nutrient dense.” Soldiers are advised to eat these frequently.
Cable represents the U.S. Army Soldier Fueling Initiative, which is remaking dining facilities at Initial Military Training sites across the country. She currently serves as a dietitian and the Chief of the Human Dimensions Division within the Initial Military Training Center of Excellence.
During the panel discussion she advised using the “red, amber, green” system in public schools too.
“My eyes got opened very quickly that it really is a community,” she said, about her visit to Fort Jackson, S.C. seven years ago to observe its dining facilities. “We talk about a village that raises a child. Well a community develops a brand new soldier, too. And that’s what we found there.”
“When I got there our dining facilities were typical dining facility type styles, you know, the fried foods, salad bars existed,” Cable continued.
“We had soda machines and the pastries were, you know, typical cookies, cake, cakes, pies, all of those types of things. Well, then we had the challenge of, okay, now we’re taking former civilians, now developing into soldiers and trying to develop them,” she said. This was the beginning of the Soldier Fueling Initiative and Cable’s efforts to influence the behavior of new recruits.
If you walk into a basic training cafeteria today you will find far fewer fried foods and soda machines have been replaced with “hydration stations,” she explained.
“In the military we all kind of know red means, ‘uh oh, there’s problems,’” Cable said. “Amber, middle of the road, we’re doing okay. And green is good to go, all is right. We took that same concept and we applied it to our menus.”
For instance, the program’s Recipe Nutrition Analysis lists pies, cookies, cakes, éclairs, and banana splits as “red” foods – highest in calories and lowest in vitamins and minerals.
Posters and placards encourage soldiers to opt instead for such “green” desserts as baked bananas and fruit cups.
“All the foods are labeled throughout the serving line so that our soldiers would be informed as to making choices related to their performance goals,” Cable said.
“I had some folks say to me, ‘Well, why on earth did you even include the red ones to begin with?’ Two reasons – one, we’ve got soldiers who have racehorse metabolisms that they needed every calorie I could get into them. And by taking off the ‘red’ we just found that we couldn’t get enough calories in them.”
The second reason for including “red” foods, Cable said, was “so they could learn what contributed positively and maybe what contributed negatively. Not to say that every food is bad, it’s just how they fit into your performance goals.”
On the breakfast menu oven-fried bacon, sausage gravy, butter, sugary cereal and egg, sausage and cheese sandwiches earn a red label. Assorted low-fat yogurt, oven-fried Canadian bacon, broccoli quiche and cholesterol-free scrambled eggs are deemed “high performance” foods.
For lunch and dinner, soldiers are coaxed into choosing hamburger yakisoba over grilled cheeseburgers.
Salisbury steak, BBQ spareribs, grilled pork chops, Yankee pot roast and turkey gravy are discouraged, while baked tuna and noodles, Brussels sprouts, spinach, turkey meatloaf, peas and carrots are “premium fuel for the soldier athlete” that should be chosen frequently.
Cable, who gave a tour of the dining facilities at Ft. Jackson to First Lady Michelle Obama in January, said the program started with basic combat training sites and now is used in all training facilities.
Overs involved in the panel included Ned Holland, Assistant Secretary for Administration at Health and Human Services; Dr. Joel Kimmons of the Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity at the Centers for Disease Control; and Jeff Mills, Food Services Director for D.C. public schools. Panelists discussed their efforts to curb unhealthy eating habits in various branches of government.
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Michelle Obama Targets Military Food: ‘Don’t Worry, You‘ll Be a Vegetable Guy Soon’
February 9, 2012 at 7:10pm
by Jonathon M. Seidl
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/michelle-obama-targets-military-food-dont-worry-youll-be-a-vegetable-guy-soon
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — 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.
Michelle Obama meets with military personnel regarding her new food program. (AP)
“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.
Mrs. Obama, who has been leading a campaign against childhood obesity, said the military effort would send a message to the whole nation.
Michelle Obama talks with a military member at a base in Arkansas. (AP)
“When you make healthy eating a priority in your lives, the rest of us are more likely to make it a priority in our lives,” she told the airmen.
The first lady was visiting Little Rock as part of a three-day national tour marking the second anniversary of her “Let’s Move” campaign. She made a stop earlier in the day in Des Moines, Iowa to meet with an arena full of schoolchildren at a pep rally for healthy eating and exercise.
Under the new program, each of the armed services will be asked to update menu standards for the first time in two decades and to ensure that healthier food choices are available.
“We are intent on focusing on preventable illnesses to help our people stay out of our clinics and hospitals by improving their physical condition,” said Dr. Jonathan Woodson, assistant secretary of defense for health affairs.
He said surveys in the mid-1990s found that about 1 out of 50 members of the armed services had weight problems. By about 2005, the figure was 1 in 20 service members.
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the fake outrage continues :D
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Obamacare’s Stepchildren: The Food Police
Jonathan S. Tobin | @tobincommentary
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2012/02/27/obamacare-food-police-sugar-nutrition
02.27.2012 - 7:00 PM
The debate about Obamacare and the way the government is using it to mandate that institutions pay for services they oppose such as contraception has brought the whole question of intrusive federal regulation back into the public eye. But those who believe this is something that will be limited to health care are probably deceiving themselves. The impulse to tell people how they should live and what they should do is implicit in the ideology that gave birth to Obamacare. If some influential people have their way, Washington’s power to impose its will may be extended into other spheres that were heretofore considered so far out of the government’s purview as to have been considered laughable. But as New York Times Magazine food columnist Mark Bittman wrote yesterday, the day may be fast approaching when government bureaucrats will be telling some, if not all citizens, what foods they may or may not eat.
Bittman picks up on the attempt by a conservative Republican in the Florida legislature to pass a bill that would prevent recipients of food stamps from spending their chits on junk food like candy, chips or soda. The willingness of a right-winger to join the food police encourages Bittman to think the time will not be long before sugar is regulated the way the production and marketing of alcohol and tobacco are controlled by the government. While Bittman’s nutritional advice about the dangers of over-consumption of products drenched in sugar and corn syrup is well taken, the notion that such choices will be taken out of the hands of consumers ought to frighten anyone who values individual freedom and understands the perils of a nanny state. Some may scoff at this possibility, but the Obamacare precedent and the power the president’s signature program will give the government may change everything in the future. Bittman’s argument that the costs of health care will make such government micro-managing of our lives inevitable may prove prophetic if Obamacare is not repealed next year.
Bittman is right to say obesity has become a major national health problem. Nor would I dispute his arguments that American nutritional habits are doing us and the country no good. But the notion that this is reason enough to give the government the power to prevent people from buying the food they wish to eat is a fundamental assault on individual liberty.
Food stamp recipients are vulnerable to such regulation because their poverty and dependence renders them helpless against such intrusions. If they are taking our money, some people reason, then we should be able to tell them what to do, especially if it is obviously for their own good. But this sort of utilitarian argument has no limits. If the national exchequer is burdened by the costs of caring for those who suffer from obesity, then we can just as easily be told that sugar or any other substance selected by the food police (Bittman prefers the term “vigilantes”) can be regulated or banned for everyone, not just those who rely on government handouts.
The ideological underpinning of this thinking can be found in Bittman’s assertion that it is the government’s job to take care of itself. If, as he believes, the government is failing to sufficiently protect us from ourselves, then it is time for enlightened souls to step in and force it to take control. However well-intentioned Bittman’s prescription for the national diet may be, government involvement on the scale that he is discussing is the epitome of the political trend that Jonah Goldberg aptly styled Liberal Fascism.
One might assume the food industry will fight this expansion of government control tooth and nail. But the example of Obamacare demonstrates all too well how businesses can be co-opted into acquiescing to a takeover by the federal leviathan. Unless Obamacare is stopped next year by a new president and Congress, we may well eventually find out just how far the reach of an empowered government can go.
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:)
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Fuckin' great. All that we need is weak soldiers.
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http://dailycaller.com/2013/08/27/kentucky-students-to-first-lady-michelle-obama-your-food-tastes-like-vomit
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http://weaselzippers.us/2013/10/31/michelle-obama-gives-dried-fruit-to-trick-or-treaters
LOL
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It's always a great idea to take fitness and nutritional advice from a fattie.
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Ppl are getting mad because they're being offered more information.
Seriously, I have to laugh at this one.
She wants soldiers to be able to - if they choose to read it - know how many claories/fat is in the food theyre eating. There's nothing in the entire world wrong with this. It's great. If you choose to shovel down 7 brownies and you don't care about the calories, then you can decide not to read the boring little sign on the wall. If you do care about these things, then read it.
We're outraged because she wants soldiers to be able to see this info IF THEY WANT. She's not taking away their food. She's not doing anything execpt asking that little signs show the nutritional content of foods.
Stupid to be outraged over this one. Obama should be impeached for about 5 other things, but repubs will scream about this shit all night. They deserve all the crap obama brings because frankly, they're fcking stupid. I bet this leads talk radio tomorrow, and nobody talks about the actual meaningful shit that matters that obama is doing every day. unreal. just unreal.
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Told you - i attack these two pos for matters big and small
Ppl are getting mad because they're being offered more information.
Seriously, I have to laugh at this one.
She wants soldiers to be able to - if they choose to read it - know how many claories/fat is in the food theyre eating. There's nothing in the entire world wrong with this. It's great. If you choose to shovel down 7 brownies and you don't care about the calories, then you can decide not to read the boring little sign on the wall. If you do care about these things, then read it.
We're outraged because she wants soldiers to be able to see this info IF THEY WANT. She's not taking away their food. She's not doing anything execpt asking that little signs show the nutritional content of foods.
Stupid to be outraged over this one. Obama should be impeached for about 5 other things, but repubs will scream about this shit all night. They deserve all the crap obama brings because frankly, they're fcking stupid. I bet this leads talk radio tomorrow, and nobody talks about the actual meaningful shit that matters that obama is doing every day. unreal. just unreal.
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Told you - i attack these two pos for matters big and small
no no no!
Cause it makes you look petty, like a dick, who just likes to fly off the handle over everything.
IMHO, you have WAY more success convincing people of the need to impeach if you point out actual crimes and things that are ruining America. The headline is a big one - but once you read it - She just wants labels so people know what they're eating. The law forces Mcdonalds to do it - WHy would we deprive soldiers of the ability to know what they're eating. I am actually pissed our brave soldiers DIDNT ALREADY have access to this info - They can learn what their body needs, etc - If they're going to be out running all day, and their CO tells them to pile on the carbs for energy, there are going to be a lot of 18 year old privates who really do NOT know what foods are simple vs complex carbs, much less carbs vs fat, etc - They might look at the brownie as great for fueling runs... but the fat and sugar makes it not the case - better to scarf down a banana for more effective fueling of their body.
people are mad that we're giving our soldiers MORE INFO - they are pissed about it. ANyone mad about this, IMO, is a backwoods hillbilly who trusts army dietitians more than they trust the soldiers themselves... Just eat what we put in front of you, don't worry, the govt says its good, you dont have to think for yourself.
33/soul crusher.... to be honest, this is the OPPOSITE of the school lunch issue... in this case, our troops have been eating the school lunch and have no idea what they're eating. NOW, she wants them to be able to KNOW what they're eating and CHOOSE FOR THEMSELVES using BETTER INFORMATION.
Sheesh... everyone butthurt because as we know, anything science is bad. damn man... impeach obama already, dont while about this petty ignorant shit.
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That street ho needs to stick w jumping the buffet line and leave the troops alone.
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That street ho needs to stick w jumping the buffet line and leave the troops alone.
can you argue why her actions are wrong? If you were a soldier, would you be all angry that someone put up a little label so that you could know what you were putting in your body?
i get that you hate her, that she sucks. But this policy is a good one if you're enlisted. Just glancing as you get food every day... after a month, you know WAY more about nutritional content than the average american. That's great.
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That street ho needs to stick w jumping the buffet line and leave the troops alone.
you need to get a life
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can you argue why her actions are wrong? If you were a soldier, would you be all angry that someone put up a little label so that you could know what you were putting in your body?
i get that you hate her, that she sucks. But this policy is a good one if you're enlisted. Just glancing as you get food every day... after a month, you know WAY more about nutritional content than the average american. That's great.
If i come off a 15 mile ruck and am offered only water cress or celery due to MoThug Obama meddling? F thst!
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you need to get a life
I enjoy trashing these two worthless slugs
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Ppl are getting mad because they're being offered more information.
Seriously, I have to laugh at this one.
She wants soldiers to be able to - if they choose to read it - know how many claories/fat is in the food theyre eating. There's nothing in the entire world wrong with this. It's great. If you choose to shovel down 7 brownies and you don't care about the calories, then you can decide not to read the boring little sign on the wall. If you do care about these things, then read it.
That information is already readily available you kneepadding jackass. 8)
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Just out of curiosity what authority does The First Lady hold? I would have thought sweet f*ck all to be honest, seems to be quite an arrogant c*nt at times.
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http://minutemennews.com/2013/11/obama-using-food-stamp-cash-fund-michelles-lets-move
figures - communists and grifters always plunder those in need
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http://www.bizpacreview.com/2014/03/02/michelle-obama-vows-to-help-confused-and-bewildered-moms-shop-for-groceries-103979
Lmfao.
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Told you - i attack these two pos for matters big and small
...and real and imagined.
But it's all for kicks is what one of your personalities said, right, SC? ;D
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Army Dietitian Touts Warning Labels for Desserts and Fried Foods at Mess Halls
By Elizabeth Harrington
February 27, 2012
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First Lady Michelle Obama eats with recruits at a U.S. Army mess hall during a visit to Fort Jackson near Columbia, South Carolina in January. (AP Photo)
(CNSNews.com) – The healthy eating campaign has the U.S. military in its sights.
During a panel discussion Thursday on how government can promote healthy eating habits, the U.S. Army touted its mess hall labeling system that places warning on desserts and fried foods.
The event, held at the Bipartisan Policy Center in Washington, saw Lt. Col. Sonya Cable highlight the “Go for Green” program, which labels healthy foods green, moderate foods amber, and high calorie foods red.
The nutrition education program alerts soldiers that “red” foods like bacon and apple pie should only be eaten rarely, with a warning: “limit intake.” Foods labeled green, however, such as mustard greens, are deemed “premium fuel for the soldier athlete,” “fresh and flavorful” and “nutrient dense.” Soldiers are advised to eat these frequently.
Cable represents the U.S. Army Soldier Fueling Initiative, which is remaking dining facilities at Initial Military Training sites across the country. She currently serves as a dietitian and the Chief of the Human Dimensions Division within the Initial Military Training Center of Excellence.
During the panel discussion she advised using the “red, amber, green” system in public schools too.
“My eyes got opened very quickly that it really is a community,” she said, about her visit to Fort Jackson, S.C. seven years ago to observe its dining facilities. “We talk about a village that raises a child. Well a community develops a brand new soldier, too. And that’s what we found there.”
“When I got there our dining facilities were typical dining facility type styles, you know, the fried foods, salad bars existed,” Cable continued.
“We had soda machines and the pastries were, you know, typical cookies, cake, cakes, pies, all of those types of things. Well, then we had the challenge of, okay, now we’re taking former civilians, now developing into soldiers and trying to develop them,” she said. This was the beginning of the Soldier Fueling Initiative and Cable’s efforts to influence the behavior of new recruits.
If you walk into a basic training cafeteria today you will find far fewer fried foods and soda machines have been replaced with “hydration stations,” she explained.
“In the military we all kind of know red means, ‘uh oh, there’s problems,’” Cable said. “Amber, middle of the road, we’re doing okay. And green is good to go, all is right. We took that same concept and we applied it to our menus.”
For instance, the program’s Recipe Nutrition Analysis lists pies, cookies, cakes, éclairs, and banana splits as “red” foods – highest in calories and lowest in vitamins and minerals.
Posters and placards encourage soldiers to opt instead for such “green” desserts as baked bananas and fruit cups.
“All the foods are labeled throughout the serving line so that our soldiers would be informed as to making choices related to their performance goals,” Cable said.
“I had some folks say to me, ‘Well, why on earth did you even include the red ones to begin with?’ Two reasons – one, we’ve got soldiers who have racehorse metabolisms that they needed every calorie I could get into them. And by taking off the ‘red’ we just found that we couldn’t get enough calories in them.”
The second reason for including “red” foods, Cable said, was “so they could learn what contributed positively and maybe what contributed negatively. Not to say that every food is bad, it’s just how they fit into your performance goals.”
On the breakfast menu oven-fried bacon, sausage gravy, butter, sugary cereal and egg, sausage and cheese sandwiches earn a red label. Assorted low-fat yogurt, oven-fried Canadian bacon, broccoli quiche and cholesterol-free scrambled eggs are deemed “high performance” foods.
For lunch and dinner, soldiers are coaxed into choosing hamburger yakisoba over grilled cheeseburgers.
Salisbury steak, BBQ spareribs, grilled pork chops, Yankee pot roast and turkey gravy are discouraged, while baked tuna and noodles, Brussels sprouts, spinach, turkey meatloaf, peas and carrots are “premium fuel for the soldier athlete” that should be chosen frequently.
Cable, who gave a tour of the dining facilities at Ft. Jackson to First Lady Michelle Obama in January, said the program started with basic combat training sites and now is used in all training facilities.
Overs involved in the panel included Ned Holland, Assistant Secretary for Administration at Health and Human Services; Dr. Joel Kimmons of the Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity at the Centers for Disease Control; and Jeff Mills, Food Services Director for D.C. public schools. Panelists discussed their efforts to curb unhealthy eating habits in various branches of government.
Nothing in this article says that Michelle Obama is dictating military diet policies
Why do you feel the need to make such a blatant lie ?
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They still have all this shit. In my org which is about 400 Soldiers and about 500 civilians they do sundae fundraisers and always doing bake sales. It drives me batshit crazy that they push this shit and are the same douchbags that are kicking people out for being overweight. We have burgerkings and a bunch of very unhealthy fast food joints. They do allow subway but they also have the fried chicken dumps.....the chow halls stateside don't cook healthy, not that I've set foot in them.
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http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/experts-michelle-obama-cited-bogus-study-showing-drastic-drop-childhood-obesity_785242.html
Typical
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no no no!
Cause it makes you look petty, like a dick, who just likes to fly off the handle over everything.
IMHO, you have WAY more success convincing people of the need to impeach if you point out actual crimes and things that are ruining America. The headline is a big one - but once you read it - She just wants labels so people know what they're eating. The law forces Mcdonalds to do it - WHy would we deprive soldiers of the ability to know what they're eating. I am actually pissed our brave soldiers DIDNT ALREADY have access to this info - They can learn what their body needs, etc - If they're going to be out running all day, and their CO tells them to pile on the carbs for energy, there are going to be a lot of 18 year old privates who really do NOT know what foods are simple vs complex carbs, much less carbs vs fat, etc - They might look at the brownie as great for fueling runs... but the fat and sugar makes it not the case - better to scarf down a banana for more effective fueling of their body.
people are mad that we're giving our soldiers MORE INFO - they are pissed about it. ANyone mad about this, IMO, is a backwoods hillbilly who trusts army dietitians more than they trust the soldiers themselves... Just eat what we put in front of you, don't worry, the govt says its good, you dont have to think for yourself.
33/soul crusher.... to be honest, this is the OPPOSITE of the school lunch issue... in this case, our troops have been eating the school lunch and have no idea what they're eating. NOW, she wants them to be able to KNOW what they're eating and CHOOSE FOR THEMSELVES using BETTER INFORMATION.
Sheesh... everyone butthurt because as we know, anything science is bad. damn man... impeach obama already, dont while about this petty ignorant shit.
I dont know how a Lawyer doesnt understand the importance of credibility...Mind Boggling to say the least
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I dont know how a Lawyer doesnt understand the importance of credibility...Mind Boggling to say the least
Your mind is easily boggled - you voted for Obama 2x over remember?
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Your mind is easily boggled - you voted for Obama 2x over remember?
boy you can sidestep with the best of them huh
Landslide Coming!!!!
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Michelle Obama Gets Rio 2016 Gymnastics Team To Walk Back Their Love of Junk Food
MIC.com ^ | Aug 18 2016 | Alex Orlov
Posted on 8/18/2016, 5:04:56 PM
Michelle Obama is everyone's mom — if everyone's mom could use Twitter.
On Wednesday, FLOTUS fired off a tweet that caused the two-time Olympian to pivot-turn on her public affection for french fries and ice cream.
It all started during a question-and-answer Twitter session with the U.S. women's gymnastics team, when actor (and Simone Biles crush object) Zac Efron asked the final five about their favorite cheat meal when they aren't training.
Follow Zac Efron ✔ @ZacEfron I know @TheRock likes cookies. 😉What's your favorite cheat meal when you're not training? #AskFinalFive #Rio2016 #TeamUSA 10:56 AM - 17 Aug 2016 1,210 1,210 Retweets 9,663 9,663 likes Raisman responded, "FRENCH FRIES + CHOCOLATE ICE CREAM" — an appropriate use of all caps.
View image on Twitter View image on Twitter Follow Alexandra Raisman ✔ @Aly_Raisman FRENCH FRIES + CHOCOLATE ICE CREAM 1:04 PM - 17 Aug 2016 2,954 2,954 Retweets 29,124 29,124 likes About an hour later, Raisman noticed a tweet posted at 1:51 p.m. from FLOTUS herself, asking her what healthy foods keep her fueled.
Follow The First Lady ✔ @FLOTUS Hey #FinalFive! We are so proud of you. What healthy foods keep you fueled as you go for gold? #LetsMove #AskFinalFive 🍏 🍅 12:51 PM - 17 Aug 2016 552 552 Retweets 3,886 3,886 likes The gymnast told the first lady to ignore her ice cream tweet.
Follow Alexandra Raisman ✔ @Aly_Raisman .@FLOTUS Ignore our recent tweet about eating fries & ice cream. Sometimes u gotta splurge. Moderation, right?😂🙈🙈😂 https://twitter.com/flotus/status/765969194097733632 … 2:33 PM - 17 Aug 2016 953 953 Retweets 8,195 8,195 likes After expressing her embarrassment via emoji, Raisman then answered the first lady's question with some healthy and delicious responses.
Follow Alexandra Raisman ✔ @Aly_Raisman Salmon, avocado, whole wheat bread, almonds, pineapples & Greek yogurt 😊👌🏻🇺🇸 https://twitter.com/flotus/status/765969194097733632 … 2:28 PM - 17 Aug 2016 719 719 Retweets 6,961 6,961 likes Simone Biles also answered the first lady — but Biles' vague response keeps us in the dark about which fruits and veggies she likes. (Maybe mum's the word until she reveals new sponsors.)
Follow Simone Biles ✔ @Simone_Biles hi! proteins, fruits and vegetables 😍 https://twitter.com/flotus/status/765969194097733632 … 1:59 PM - 17 Aug 2016 672 672 Retweets 6,279 6,279 likes The team also made a video responding to Obama's question.
17 Aug The First Lady ✔ @FLOTUS Hey #FinalFive! We are so proud of you. What healthy foods keep you fueled as you go for gold? #LetsMove #AskFinalFive 🍏 🍅 Follow U.S. Olympic Team ✔ @TeamUSA Thank you for the question @FLOTUS! #AskFinalFive 🇺🇸#TeamUSA 🍏🍓🍒🍐💪 5:42 PM - 17 Aug 2016
356 356 Retweets 1,641 1,641 likes SPONSORED
Looks like FLOTUS can't keep them away from ice cream forever, though. Biles and Raisman posed for a photo outside a McDonald's with three Russian gymnasts on Wednesday.
View image on Twitter View image on Twitter Follow Simone Biles ✔ @Simone_Biles sometimes we all need some ice cream 💛 #internationalfriendships 1:21 PM - 17 Aug 2016 882 882 Retweets 10,706 10,706 likes If loving ice cream is wrong, we don't want the U.S. gymnasts to be right. Just like on a beam, a good diet is all about balance.
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Michelle Obama Laments, “I’m a Black Woman in America… We’re Not Always Made to Feel Beautiful”
Chicks On The Right ^ | 14 Feb 20 | Jennie
Posted on 2/15/2020, 12:38:20 PM by SkyPilot
Michelle Obama was interviewed by Oprah Winfrey who was on her “Oprah’s 2020 Vision: Your Life in Focus.” tour that she is doing with Weight Watchers Reimagined.
In the interview, Michelle Obama laments that society does not see black women as beautiful. That is rich, considering she was on umpteen magazine covers.
Should we conclude that America is racist against Slovenian-Americans? Because Melania Trump has graced ZERO magazine covers since becoming First Lady. And she was literally a fashion model.
A quick Google search shows Michelle has been on the cover of:
•Time
•InStyle
•Vogue
•Ebony
•Radar
•Parade
•Good Housekeeping
•Health Today
•Elle
•Ladies Home Journal
•Essence
•T Magazine
•Reader’s Digest
•People
•Prevention
•Glamour
•Variety
•Vanity Fair
•Redbook
•Bazaar
•AARP
And more!!!
Yet, Michelle believes that America does not make black women feel beautiful.
From The Hill:
“People called me all kinds of things when I was campaigning for Barack, like it was a competition,” she said. “They called me un-American, and this stuff sticks with you. Men talked about the size of my butt. There are people who were telling me I was angry. That stuff hurts, and it makes you sort of wonder, what are people seeing? That stuff is there. And look, I’m a black woman in America. And you know, we’re not always made to feel beautiful. So, there’s still that baggage that we carry, and not everyone can relate to that.”
It is amazing that Michelle Obama, a best-selling author in 2019, still sees America through the lens she does. She is widely admired throughout America, even being named the most admired woman in America in 2019, according to Gallup.
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Michelle Obama is peddling sugary drinks that don’t meet the nutrition standards she advocated as first lady
American Thinker ^ | 05/17/2023 | Thomas Lifson
According to this Bloomberg article, Michelle Obama is “a co-founder and strategic partner at Plezi Nutrition, a maker of sweetened beverages for kids ages 6 and up,” which I take to mean that she is profiting directly from the sale of these beverages. Her rationale:
Obama says she’s offering a lower-sugar alternative to steer them away from sugary drinks.
So, are they healthy for kids?
Plezi’s first product is a flavored juice drink blend that, under the very standards Obama championed, could not be served in US schools.
Bloomberg News interviewed 12 independent health professionals and organizations and spoke with Plezi Chairman Sam Kass, as well as with members of the company’s advisory board. Nearly all of the experts conveyed their respect for Obama and her achievements in improving child nutrition. But most were critical of the new line of drinks.
If you substitute nicotine for sugar, Plezi’s juice is similar in appeal to vaping pens such as Juul. Like Obama’s less-sugary drinks, vaping pens don’t attempt to get people to stop using tobacco and nicotine, they attempt to get them to use a less harmful form. But after debuting as a $38 billion startup, Juul has fallen to near bankruptcy because it was discovered that children (Michelle’s target market) were using them. The company has paid nearly half a billion dollars in settlements with states that accused it of targeting youngsters and hooking them on its products.
Plezi (and Michelle) stand to make a lot of money from catering to children’s sugar addiction:
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Michelle Obama Laments, “I’m a Black Woman in America… We’re Not Always Made to Feel Beautiful”
Chicks On The Right ^ | 14 Feb 20 | Jennie
Posted on 2/15/2020, 12:38:20 PM by SkyPilot
Thats because shes an ugly fukking man??? With a giant peeneroid....
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Thats because shes an ugly fukking man??? With a giant peeneroid....
better back thank Bhanks.
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Michelle Obama won't replace Biden in 2024, former senior Obama advisor says
Just the News ^ | February 11, 2024 | Madeleine Hubbard
Posted on 2/12/2024, 10:12:08 AM by Twotone
Conservatives have speculated that Michelle Obama could replace Biden in the presidential race.
Former first lady Michelle Obama has no plans on replacing President Joe Biden in the 2024 presidential election, former Obama White House advisor David Axelrod said.
Axelrod told CNN host Michael Smerconish on Saturday that Michelle Obama "never was interested in a political life" even though her husband, former President Barack Obama, ran for U.S. Senate in 2004 and later served in the White House from 2009 to 2017. "She is not someone who likes politics. She doesn't like the tone and tenor of politics."
Speaking to the possibility of Michelle Obama replacing Biden on the Democratic ticket, Axelrod said: "I would be floored if she would consent to that. They feel that they gave 10 years of their life to this. And I'm sure she feels as Barbara Bush did when she said there has to be someone other than the Bushes and the Clintons who could be President of the United States. My guess is that's her attitude."
Conservatives, meanwhile, have speculated that Michelle Obama could replace Biden in the presidential race.
"I think that it should not be shocking to see someone like Michelle Obama take the role of the nomination," former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy told Fox News Digital on Saturday.
After the special counsel's report on Biden's alleged mishandling of classified materials was released, Ramaswamy said that the former first lady offers Democrats "a convenient path out of that problem" because she is "an alternative to Biden that they may view as more palatable in a general election."
Texas GOP Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick said Friday on X, formerly Twitter: "I’ve said for over a year many times that Joe Biden would not be on the ticket and Michelle Obama would be the likely nominee. It’s clear the Democrat deep state run by Barack Obama knew they had to take him down to give them a chance in November."
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Michelle Obama is a stunning woman.
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Michelle Obama Says She “Will Not Be Running For President”
Modernity News ^ | 5th March 2024 | Steve Watson
Posted on 3/5/2024, 9:26:19 AM by Red Badger
“Mrs. Obama supports President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris’ re-election campaign.”
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Amid speculation that the Democratic Party will replace Joe Biden before their national convention in August, Michelle Obama’s office has issued a statement categorically denying that she will run for president.
NBC News received a statement that noted “As former First Lady Michelle Obama has expressed several times over the years, she will not be running for president.”
Crystal Carson, director of communications for the former first lady’s office, added “Mrs. Obama supports President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris’ re-election campaign.”
NBC News further notes that Michelle Obama plans to help Biden get reelected, but will play an even more limited role than in 2020.
The report adds that the Biden campaign plans to brandish Michelle Obama’s popularity among Democratic voters to increase voter turnout.
Michelle Obama previously told Oprah Winfrey that politics is “not in my soul,” and that she has no desire to run for president.
Speculation about her being a surprise candidate has been rife, especially after she declared that she is “terrified” of Donald Trump winning another election.
For a time, more bets were being placed on Obama winning the presidency than Joe Biden, even though she isn’t running.
New York Post columnist Cindy Adams has further stoked the rumours by claiming sources told her Barack Obama has polled donors asking how they’d feel about his wife as the Democratic candidate.
Megyn Kelly discussed the rumour on her show earlier this year, noting that the timeline is for a May announcement before the August convention:
Sources close to Trump, including Vivek Ramaswamy, have claimed Democrats are preparing to replace Joe Biden with Michelle Obama and that it doesn’t even really matter if she doesn’t want to run, because she won’t have a choice in the matter.
Trump himself is also adamant that he will not be running against Biden.
In January, JP Morgan Asset Management strategist Michael Cembalest predicted that Joe Biden will not make it to the 2024 election in November and will drop out of the race due to poor health, to be replaced by a new candidate.
Speculation has also focused on California Governor Gavin Newsom, who seems far too engaged in worshipping and fawning over Biden, prompting some to suspect he already knows Biden is stepping down.
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Michelle Obama is a stunning woman feller.
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