Hungry? Put down the f***ing Snickers! You'll die!

Nobody here has disputed that. It is essentially the same, which is a bad thing. The fact that that the corn industry has now launched ad campaigns boasting about it being the same is straight from bizarro world. What's next, tobacco companies boasting about causing cancer?

And I don't get why folks like you have such a problem with the Michelle Obama type campaigns if they're designed to provide the actual facts to a public that, frankly, has long been misinformed and led to believe crap like supermarket orange juice is healthy when it's actually loaded with the HFCS that's turning their kids into waddling masses of blubber.

 

Yeah, Bama, if you can provide a single example of where you've been told you can't eat something, rather than you shouldn't, that'd be awesome.

If we're talking about regulating things for under-18s, that's a different topic. We do it with alcohol, cigarettes, etc.

Where the issue is with corn syrup is that government subsidies promote the growing of corn at the cost of everything else. So besides the millions and millions of dollars going to major agricultural powerhouses, which is its own issue, you end up with GM corn being grown where you could be growing something else.

 

Who the fuck did Nancy Reagan think she was anyway, telling kids not to do drugs? And Laura Bush with the reading and the libraries and whatnot? Goddamn nanny state, lemme watch TV!

 

No. Mine is just advice. Nothing more. Michelle's comes from a different place, a lust for power and control. She thinks she is one of our "betters" and we dumbheads in the great unwashed need her divine guidance and wisdom in order to survive.

Thanks, but no thanks.

As for examples.

She told food companies, gathered at a meeting of the Grocery Manufacturers Association in 2010, to "step it up" and put less fat, salt and sugar in foods. If that isn't trying to tell you what and what not to eat, I don't know what is.

Her criticism of Paula Deen's bad-for-you Southern cooking despite enjoying quite a bit of it.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2047901/Paula-Deen-Michelle-Obama-ate-guest-Ive-show.html

My problem is she is out here preaching this message of eating better and here she is dining on Kobe beef, Five Guys burgers and expensive, fatty ribs in Vail on a ski trip, one of the thousands of vacations she and her husband have taken while he's been in office.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1358829/Obamas-double-standards-family-holidays-telling-Americans-to.html
She's a hypocrite. Don't do as we do. Do as we say.

There's nothing wrong with changing your eating behavior. There's nothing wrong with chowing down, as our First Lady obviously likes to do. But trying to intimidate companies into going along with your ideas of what should be? People should have the option to choose their own way and face the consequences for their actions. That's called a free society based on liberty. So give me my Krispy Kremes (in moderation, of course) or give me death.

 

And she seemed so nice.

 

Bipartisanship?

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/46270895/ns/us_news-life/#.TzGK0eNkufM

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Florida's poor can use food stamps to buy staples like milk, vegetables, fruits and meat. But they can also use them to buy sweets like cakes, cookies and Jell-O and snack foods like chips, something a state senator wants stopped.

Sen. Ronda Storms, R-Valrico, also wants to limit other welfare funds, known as Temporary Assistance For Needy Families, from being used at ATMs in casinos and strip clubs and anywhere out of state. The bill comes after reports that the debit cards welfare recipients now receive were used in those places, as well as locations in Las Vegas and the Virgin Islands in a small percentage of cases, but the state does not track what items were purchased.

 

Oy.

 

All I know is, when I cover an event ... anywhere, I would guess 30-40 percent of the people there are obese. At least 10 percent morbidly so.

I'm lucky. I have great metabolism, and I work out at least 4-5 times a week. In great shape.

But it's really scary when you think how much of our country is in horrendous physical condition.

 

And the folks in the stands are usually even worse!