Can anyone explain what's wrong with Michelle Obama promoting a healthy lifestyle? The way I see it, she's encouraging people to take personal responsibility. That's conservatism! We should give credit where credit is due, in my opinion.

Radio talk show hosts (food advertisers), like Rush Limbaugh, often criticize her by saying, "we don't want government telling us what we should or shouldn't eat." Well, the last time I checked, Michelle Obama is not the government. She's a private citizen exercising her freedom of speech. And, basically, she's taking a conservative stand by promoting personal responsibility. She wants people to eat healthier diets and get more exercise.

Are conservatives, like Rush, against her having freedom of speech? Are conservatives anti-health? Are conservatives incapable of recognizing conservatism as it pertains to health?

There's nothing wrong with MO promoting healthy foods along with fitness instead of being a couch potato.

The problem is the motives behind such a campaign.....the motive of indoctrinating kids/parents that The State is the ultimate source of wisdom over their lives. Statism is the motive and the goal.

"RAEFORD — A preschooler at West Hoke Elementary School ate three chicken nuggets for lunch Jan. 30 because the school told her the lunch her mother packed was not nutritious.

The girl’s turkey and cheese sandwich, banana, potato chips, and apple juice did not meet U.S. Department of Agriculture guidelines, according to the interpretation of the person who was inspecting all lunch boxes in the More at Four classroom that day.

The Division of Child Development and Early Education at the Department of Health and Human Services requires all lunches served in pre-kindergarten programs — including in-home day care centers — to meet USDA guidelines. That means lunches must consist of one serving of meat, one serving of milk, one serving of grain, and two servings of fruit or vegetables, even if the lunches are brought from home.

When home-packed lunches do not include all of the required items, child care providers must supplement them with the missing ones.

The girl’s mother — who said she wishes to remain anonymous to protect her daughter from retaliation — said she received a note from the school stating that students who did not bring a “healthy lunch” would be offered the missing portions, which could result in a fee from the cafeteria, in her case $1.25......."

Preschooler’s Homemade Lunch Replaced with Cafeteria “Nuggets”

Originally Posted by Villages PL

Can anyone explain what's wrong with Michelle Obama promoting a healthy lifestyle? The way I see it, she's encouraging people to take personal responsibility. That's conservatism! We should give credit where credit is due, in my opinion.

Radio talk show hosts (food advertisers), like Rush Limbaugh, often criticize her by saying, "we don't want government telling us what we should or shouldn't eat." Well, the last time I checked, Michelle Obama is not the government. She's a private citizen exercising her freedom of speech. And, basically, she's taking a conservative stand by promoting personal responsibility. She wants people to eat healthier diets and get more exercise.

Are conservatives, Like Rush, against her having freedom of speech? Are conservatives anti-health? Are conservatives incapable of recognizing conservatism as it pertains to health?

Limbaugh is a disgusting slime ball with lint and mold spots.

"The problem is the motives behind such a campaign.....the motive of indoctrinating kids/parents that The State is the ultimate source of wisdom over their lives. Statism is the motive and the goal."

Oh, get over it. Just because an idea or program comes out of the Obama White House, it is "statism". Hokum, to say the very least. I do not recall any criticism to Betty Ford's Just Say No idea for kids or Thousand Points of Light program.

Originally Posted by buggyone

"The problem is the motives behind such a campaign.....the motive of indoctrinating kids/parents that The State is the ultimate source of wisdom over their lives. Statism is the motive and the goal."

Oh, get over it. Just because an idea or program comes out of the Obama White House, it is "statism". Hokum, to say the very least. I do not recall any criticism to Betty Ford's Just Say No idea for kids or Thousand Points of Light program.

I thought Nancy Reagan was the promoter of "Just Say No".

Just Say No - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Anyway, times have changed so the smallest programs are blown up and used as political targets. Wonder if there was such nonsense when JFK came out with his fitness program?

Originally Posted by Villages PL

Can anyone explain what's wrong with Michelle Obama promoting a healthy lifestyle? The way I see it, she's encouraging people to take personal responsibility. That's conservatism! We should give credit where credit is due, in my opinion.

Radio talk show hosts (food advertisers), like Rush Limbaugh, often criticize her by saying, "we don't want government telling us what we should or shouldn't eat." Well, the last time I checked, Michelle Obama is not the government. She's a private citizen exercising her freedom of speech. And, basically, she's taking a conservative stand by promoting personal responsibility. She wants people to eat healthier diets and get more exercise.

Are conservatives, Like Rush, against her having freedom of speech? Are conservatives anti-health? Are conservatives incapable of recognizing conservatism as it pertains to health?

Laura Bush has various concerns too akin to those of Michelle Obama. This First Lady though was trying to feed the mind rather than educate the mind about how to treat your body. Laura Bush - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

National Book Festival - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Just another example of the fanaticism and paranoia on the right. The Republican Party needs a huge overhaul before it crashes and burns and becomes as extinct as the dinosaur it often resembles.

Eh, Betty Ford - Nancy Reagan, same thing but the JFK physical fitness, Laura Bush and literacy are other good examples of positive programs. Why argue with positive programs and call them examples of statism?

I agree....we should laud First Lady's promotion and support of worthy causes, whatever her political party.

As I recall Dr. Benjamin Spock became all the rage when it came to rearing children and look how that turned out.

There is an inherent danger in allowing the government to make too many of our decisions. It is one thing to make a recommendation, educate etc but quite another to enforce. It is a short leap from government advising to government interference. Just look at what government has done with business regulations that are strangling companies with red tape.

Why is it that with abortion "pro-choice" is favored by liberals? However when it comes to a person's private eating habits "pro-choice" isn't an option?

Less and smaller government is the main theme in this election year. So Team Obama will attempt to put his best foot forward and advertise on how much better we would be to sit back and let the government drive. Before you swallow that line repeat to yourself Greece, Greece, Greece.

Originally Posted by rubicon

As I recall Dr. Benjamin Spock became all the rage when it came to rearing children and look how that turned out.

There is an inherent danger in allowing the government to make too many of our decisions. It is one thing to make a recommendation, educate etc but quite another to enforce. It is a short leap from government advising to government interference. Just look at what government has done with business regulations that are strangling companies with red tape.

Why is it that with abortion "pro-choice" is favored by liberals? However when it comes to a person's private eating habits "pro-choice" isn't an option?

Less and smaller government is the main theme in this election year. So Team Obama will attempt to put his best foot forward and advertise on how much better we would be to sit back and let the government drive. Before you swallow that line repeat to yourself Greece, Greece, Greece.

Rubicon, my friend, no one is forcing you to eat in a certain way. If a school lunch program serves healthy choice food, that is a good thing. You can still go to Cody's for their chicken-fried steak with mashed potatoes and cream gravy. That is not being taken away. It is your choice to eat good for you foods or good tasting food.

I do like the food tie-in with "swallow that line and Greece". Very good writing on your part.

Quick question...how would you feel if it was your child who was involved?

Originally Posted by buggyone

Rubicon, my friend, no one is forcing you to eat in a certain way. If a school lunch program serves healthy choice food, that is a good thing. You can still go to Cody's for their chicken-fried steak with mashed potatoes and cream gravy. That is not being taken away. It is your choice to eat good for you foods or good tasting food.

I do like the food tie-in with "swallow that line and Greece". Very good writing on your part.

buggyone: recall i wrote "It was a short leap from............"

I'll follow rules that make sense and I'll follow rules because not to do so infringes on others. However I get annoyed with this nanny government because it is an enabler and far too many American/foreigners are suckling at its breast and they need to be weaned off before we tumble. I exclude social security and medicare because hard working people paid into these programs their entire working life for SS and medicare since 1965.

How's the golf game?

Originally Posted by pooh

Quick question...how would you feel if it was your child who was involved?

If my child was involved in what? A healthy food program at school? I would be all for it. At my daughter's high school, the students could buy soda from a machine before or after school. During school hours, the machine was unplugged - or somehow made inoperable. So, even during lunch time, the students could only get bottled water, juice, or milk to drink. Good idea to me.

The people I know and the articles I've read question the First Lady's Food Deserts program and the between food deserts and childhood obesity. These are, according to Obama, "nutritional wastelands that exist across America in both urban and rural communities where parents and children simply do not have access to a supermarket. Some 23.5 million Americans – including 6.5 million children – currently live in food deserts."

This, according to many experts, is not true.

Taking on

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/18/he...n-studies.html