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post #1 of 26
2/7/11 at 5:18am
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http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ear...he_obamas.html

This is part of a plan for healthy eating for America's children???
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post #2 of 26
2/7/11 at 6:20am
Let's see now - isn't this a classic example of the administration of "do what I say and not do what I do?" They tell YOU what to eat, but don't follow their own rules......lmbo
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post #3 of 26
2/7/11 at 6:42am
The Obamas don't seem to have any weight/health problems so I don't see a problem with them having whatever type of food they want to a special celebration and the Super Bowl is a big deal in the US. Heavens, even us Canadians have Super Bowl parties with lots of less than stellar items on the menu.

But maybe I'm reading this thread wrong and it's just another chance to "bash Obama".
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post #4 of 26
2/7/11 at 6:50am
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Originally Posted by Yosemite View Post
The Obamas don't seem to have any weight/health problems so I don't see a problem with them having whatever type of food they want to a special celebration and the Super Bowl is a big deal in the US. Heavens, even us Canadians have Super Bowl parties with lots of less than stellar items on the menu.

But maybe I'm reading this thread wrong and it's just another chance to "bash Obama".
If they keep eating like that, they may have. Yea, they can eat what they want. Just don't tell me what to eat. My mother did that when I was a child....I am a grown up now.
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post #5 of 26
2/7/11 at 6:57am
African-Americans have a much higher tendency to high blood pressure and strokes, so I hope this isn't a typical meal there...and I'm pretty sure it's not.

I'm just curious what you think SHOULD have been served? Carrot and celery sticks? Rice cakes?
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post #6 of 26
2/7/11 at 7:44am
The point is that everyone should decide what they want to eat - I'm grown up to - I eat what I choose to eat and I would not want someone telling me what I SHOULD be eating.

So why is the government planning your menus?????
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post #7 of 26
2/7/11 at 8:45am
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Originally Posted by mrblanche View Post
African-Americans have a much higher tendency to high blood pressure and strokes, so I hope this isn't a typical meal there...and I'm pretty sure it's not.

I'm just curious what you think SHOULD have been served? Carrot and celery sticks? Rice cakes?
On the contrary. But I do think if there is a White House initiative for Americans and school children to eat healthier, they should help to set the example.

But what I really think is there is nothing wrong with what was served. I think it is up to each individual what they eat and up to parents to decide what their children can eat.
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post #8 of 26
2/7/11 at 9:05am
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Originally Posted by GoldenKitty45 View Post
The point is that everyone should decide what they want to eat - I'm grown up to - I eat what I choose to eat and I would not want someone telling me what I SHOULD be eating.

So why is the government planning your menus?????
Nobody has been planning MY menus. . ..

You don't think that there needs to be some guidelines as to the nutritional content of school lunches (and similar government-provided meals)? I do. School lunches are worse than junk. The kids would be better off eating McDonalds every day.

LOL, that menu looks like a health-food fest compared to the Super Bowl party food my co-workers described. But you gotta indulge at a Super Bowl party. That's what it's for!
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post #9 of 26
2/7/11 at 9:11am
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Nobody has been planning MY menus. . ..

You don't think that there needs to be some guidelines as to the nutritional content of school lunches (and similar government-provided meals)? I do. School lunches are worse than junk. The kids would be better off eating McDonalds every day.

LOL, that menu looks like a health-food fest compared to the Super Bowl party food my co-workers described. But you gotta indulge at a Super Bowl party. That's what it's for!
All school lunches are not government provided. Some people buy their own. Actually we have been invited to the school several times for Grandparents Day to eat with our grandchildren. The meals inclued fruit, vegetable, milk and a main dish. What is wrong with that.
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post #10 of 26
2/7/11 at 9:38am
Seriously, how they eat on the day of Super Bowl obviously doesn't represent their typical diet. And what's on the menu also doesn't represent exactly what they ate. Portion control matters most on days like this, where there is a menu full of unhealthy foods, and I am sure they managed to do just fine, because judging from how they look, they don't have any problems with obesity.

As far as food in schools, it's awful. I was still in high school 4 years ago, and the food was either fast food or things that came from cans, like canned pasta, canned fruit, and even canned meat I don't understand why even a first lady's efforts have to be a controversial topic
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post #11 of 26
2/7/11 at 11:13am
Since the subject of school lunches has been brought up:
Childhood: Obesity and School Lunches
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Researchers say they have identified another risk factor for childhood obesity: school lunch.
A study of more than 1,000 sixth graders in several schools in southeastern Michigan found that those who regularly had the school lunch were 29 percent more likely to be obese than those who brought lunch from home.
Abstract from the American Heart Journal
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post #12 of 26
2/7/11 at 11:58am
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Originally Posted by Yosemite View Post
But maybe I'm reading this thread wrong and it's just another chance to "bash Obama".
On THIS forum??? No Way!

Seriously, I'm even suprised that there is a thread critisizing the president's food at a Superbowl party. Come on!
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post #13 of 26
2/7/11 at 2:28pm
The Obamas can probably eat all that every day, and not gain an ounce.
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post #14 of 26
2/7/11 at 3:16pm
When I worked on a ranch, active all day, often in sub-zero temperatures, eating big meals was a necessity. I suspect the Obamas are busy enough that they can burn off more than they would if they were just practicing law in an urban law office.

I AM tired of the nanny-statists thinking that they know better than any of us what we should be able to eat. The only thing I've seen them do is require restaurants to publish nutrition analyses of their meals, since the average restaurant meal contains about twice the food (and calories) we really need.
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post #15 of 26
2/7/11 at 3:37pm
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I don't care what the Obamas eat. It is their business and not mine. They shouldn't care what I eat either. It is my business and not theirs.

I can see where schools receiving Federal funds could have some limitations concerning what they serve, but restaurants, really. People who are trim can still eat all the wrong foods and suffer health problems like high blood pressure, clogged arteries, heart attacks and strokes as a result of poor eating practices. So I am not sure obesity should be singled out here. But I feel the bottom line is everyone knows healthy foods. They have the choice whether to eat them and serve them to their children or not, in spite of the results.

Perhaps their Super Bowl meal was a veer off their regular healthy menus. It drew attention because of the push for eating healthy.
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post #16 of 26
2/7/11 at 3:48pm
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Originally Posted by blueyedgirl5946 View Post
All school lunches are not government provided. Some people buy their own. Actually we have been invited to the school several times for Grandparents Day to eat with our grandchildren. The meals inclued fruit, vegetable, milk and a main dish. What is wrong with that.
Even if you pay for the meals, they're still provided by the government (if it's a public school). Therefore the government has the right and responsiblity to control the content of those meals.

School lunches are technically "balanced", but only if the kids eat everything included. What kid is going to eat a mediocre salad or squishy green beans at school? Not many. And it's all highly processed food. Even the pizza and sandwiches are barely recognizable.

I found this blog interesting: http://fedupwithschoollunch.blogspot...20lunch%20post

And I do think that restaurants should be required to post nutritional content. Many restaurant foods contain way more calories, salt, fat, etc. than the same thing prepared at home. I don't see what it'll hurt anyway.

And I really don't believe that everyone knows what foods are healthy. No way. The ignorance about that is amazing. I know a lot of people who think that tater tot casserole is a healthy meal.
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post #17 of 26
2/9/11 at 9:00am
I love the Obama's menu! It's right out of Chicago!! yummy

When I ate school lunches, I had to pay for them when I didn't bring a lunch and I rarely bought any because all they sold was complete junk food. Slimy burgers and greasy pizza with the specialty pasta dishes. Even the vending machines sold soda for half the price of healthier choices like juice and milk. It would be great if school cafeterias provided healthy choices for a change.

For posting nutrician contents in restaurants? I think of my friends with diabetes who have put themselves through sugar level crisis when they couldn't guess carb contents in food served in restaurants. How is the government trying to dictate what you eat when all they have asked is to educate the public on their choices? I don't get why anyone would object to this.
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post #18 of 26
2/9/11 at 10:12am
When I was a kid, we ate "junk food" all the time. I am talking 50s and 60s. But the difference is we played outside.

Kids are not outside anymore. Go down a street sometime and count the number of kids outside playing. The computers and video games and I pods and all sorts of "pods" have taken the place of kick ball, bike riding, climbing trees. The list goes on and on.

It's not the food, it's the inactivity that is hurting our kids. I honestly don't recall an obese kid on our road. At night we went to bed exhausted from all the running we had done all day. I don't see too many kids running anymore.
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post #19 of 26
2/9/11 at 10:18am
Also keep in mind they (the government) was pushing for McDonalds to take out the happy meal toy cause it inticed kids to not eat healty.

BS - its the parents job to feed their kids right. And besides, I LIKE some of those happy meal toys and have bought a happy meal if I was looking for a certain toy.

My son and I collected the 101 Dalmation toys trying to collect them all - we didn't but it was fun.
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post #20 of 26
2/9/11 at 6:32pm
I'm having a gallbladder attack just thinking about eating that food. Nothing on there really looks very appetizing to me. I can't even imagine J-Lo chowing down on that. Must have been a memorable moment to see if she did!!
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post #21 of 26
2/10/11 at 10:06am
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Originally Posted by farleyv View Post
When I was a kid, we ate "junk food" all the time. I am talking 50s and 60s. But the difference is we played outside.

Kids are not outside anymore. Go down a street sometime and count the number of kids outside playing. The computers and video games and I pods and all sorts of "pods" have taken the place of kick ball, bike riding, climbing trees. The list goes on and on.

It's not the food, it's the inactivity that is hurting our kids. I honestly don't recall an obese kid on our road. At night we went to bed exhausted from all the running we had done all day. I don't see too many kids running anymore.
That is surely the truth. We were poor and we ate whatever my grandma had to cook. Sometimes it was biscuits and molasses with some fried side meat. When she cooked collards or cabbage, it was always with streak of fat, streak of lean. We drank the liquid the vegetables were cooked in. People wasted nothing. My grandma lived to 86, my dad, 91 and me and my three sisters are in our sixties. It didn't kill any of us. We played outside until time for supper and homework. Kids now don't know what to do if they don't have ipods, computers, cell phones and all that other technology. We rode tobacco sticks for horses and burned off the calories. The reason they are obese is just as FarleyV said. Kids are couch potatoes.
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post #22 of 26
2/10/11 at 10:31am
I'm not even 30 yet and was outside all the time right up until I was in my early 20s and computers were becoming more and more popular. We were on our bikes, walking to the store, building forts in the woods. My friends and I hated being inside, even with video games and computers. Our folks also encouraged us to be outside.
I find a lot of parents don't do this anymore. They buy computers, video games, cell phones and whatever other gadgets are out there for their children and let them rot away in front of them.
I also notice more parents buying their kids McDonalds and all that junk for dinner when they are too busy or lazy to make a good home cooked meal.
I'll take a good stew, stir fry or pasta dish over some heart attack in a wrapper any day. Although, it is nice to indulge once in a while.
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post #23 of 26
2/11/11 at 5:38am
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Originally Posted by LuvMyParker View Post
I'm not even 30 yet and was outside all the time right up until I was in my early 20s and computers were becoming more and more popular. We were on our bikes, walking to the store, building forts in the woods. My friends and I hated being inside, even with video games and computers. Our folks also encouraged us to be outside.
I find a lot of parents don't do this anymore. They buy computers, video games, cell phones and whatever other gadgets are out there for their children and let them rot away in front of them.
I also notice more parents buying their kids McDonalds and all that junk for dinner when they are too busy or lazy to make a good home cooked meal.
I'll take a good stew, stir fry or pasta dish over some heart attack in a wrapper any day. Although, it is nice to indulge once in a while.
This is right on the mark.
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post #24 of 26
2/12/11 at 12:04pm
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Originally Posted by blueyedgirl5946 View Post
That is surely the truth. We were poor and we ate whatever my grandma had to cook. Sometimes it was biscuits and molasses with some fried side meat. When she cooked collards or cabbage, it was always with streak of fat, streak of lean. We drank the liquid the vegetables were cooked in. People wasted nothing. My grandma lived to 86, my dad, 91 and me and my three sisters are in our sixties. It didn't kill any of us. We played outside until time for supper and homework. Kids now don't know what to do if they don't have ipods, computers, cell phones and all that other technology. We rode tobacco sticks for horses and burned off the calories. The reason they are obese is just as FarleyV said. Kids are couch potatoes.
While I agree with the observations you and FarleyV made, I think things could never go back to what they were. For one thing, food now is much cheaper than it was many years ago, especially junk food. Even lard, pure animal fat is much healthier than the stuff at McDonalds. It's one thing to eat somewhat unhealthy, but eat to LIVE, than to to live to eat that junk food. This is what is happening with so many people who struggle with obesity.

So since we can't reverse time, and the tastiest junk food is now easily accessible and cheap, the only thing left to do is to be responsible and feed children the right things and force them to be active, take them on bike rides, hiking (since you won't see kids doing that on their own for fun anymore) and show them how to be healthy and take care of themselves, make it a habit for them that will stay with them through adulthood. Otherwise they will never learn- they will always be in front of the TV or computer, because children (and a lot of adults unfortunately) don't act based on long term consequences, but only based on what feels good NOW.
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post #25 of 26
2/13/11 at 2:06am
Everything in moderation.

The CheeseCake Factory sells unhealthy food, but as long as its not 30% of your diet, no big deal.

Personal responsibility.

I can understand how it might seem like a smoking parent telling you cigs are bad while blowing smoke in your face... we're all at least a little bit hypocritical, but no one appreciates it.
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post #26 of 26
2/14/11 at 10:11am
For work our carry-in consisted of artichoke and spinach dip(mine), fried chicken wings, buffalo chicken dip, tiramisu, various cakes/brownies, cocktail meatballs, hamburgers and assorted other unhealthy things! The White House dinner doesn't look so bad!

I'm 31, when I was in school our lunches consisted of a cold or hot tray, wrapped in plastic, that had yucky hamburger, soggy pizza, chicken nuggets, peaches in heavy syrup, french fries, etc. Once a week we had a salad/potato bar, which I'm pretty sure was the most popular day of the week. The Government can absolutely say exactly what should and shouldnt go into school lunches- since the Government provides them.
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