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• INFIDEL

  Sep. 5, 2010 at 10:49am

  Fat Lady of the US, what is your BMI (**** Mass Indicator)?
  I believe this is a misguided “Just Say No” (to donuts) program to give the FLOTUS something to do.
  I believe it will backfire when burly Americans head to the polls.
  Lots of people fudge (mmm!!) when reporting their weight.
  I can imagine what will happen when someone hacks the gov computer and publishes people’s BMI.
  Your BMI is nobody’s business but your own. In America we have rights. Including the right to be fat!

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  • Large Eagle

    Sep. 5, 2010 at 11:55am

    Michelle
    I will be your “Huckleberry” but I won’t be control by the likes of you or that “girl’s bike riding” tri- athlete you call your husband. Pray for these clowns folks – To resist tyranny is of GOD.

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  • iatoala

    Sep. 5, 2010 at 11:14pm

    Shake your booty, shake your booty, shake, shake, shake. Potus operate on a large platform.

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  • spangsteve

    Sep. 7, 2010 at 6:36am

    Only if you are self-sustaining, and I do not have to subsidize your oxygen tanks that you need for walking from your handicap parking spot to the front door of Walmart. That would be like me saying, no one tells me to not bullride.

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• llbworld

  Sep. 5, 2010 at 10:49am

  Has anyone seen HER big rear end lately?? And every time you see him he’s eating a cheeseburger and fries…come on people….wake UP !!

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  • jcdgwilson

    Sep. 5, 2010 at 7:36pm

    Promoting a healthy lifestyle while you are constantly being photographed shoving ice cream down your face. She needs to take care of her own family. Get her husband a patch for his smoking habit and herself some fat pills. LEAVE my kids alone.

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  • Tazzy

    Sep. 5, 2010 at 11:01pm

    Mrs O is starting to look pregnant !

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  • Midwest Belle

    Sep. 5, 2010 at 11:06pm

    I don’t think SHE’s seen her behind lately.

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• vegasd8

  Sep. 5, 2010 at 10:48am

  Every video of the first family vacations shows them all slurping ice cream like they never could afford it before. Say one thing, and then do something else should be the Obama motto…MIchelle and the kids need to drop a few themselves.

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• JAB

  Sep. 5, 2010 at 10:47am

  Don’t the Liberals just love to tell everybody else what to do? I don’t know about you, but I’m damn sick and tired of it. You live your life; I’ll live mine (and be responsible for it).

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  • memere2six

    Sep. 6, 2010 at 10:57am

    I am BEYOND sick and tired of it …VOTE in November ..get them all out !!

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  • babysealclubber

    Sep. 6, 2010 at 4:47pm

    Such a refreshing site, to hear people talk fondly of freedom AND personal responsibility. Virtually any & all reasonably polite responses from the conservative viewpoint are removed by community “moderators” on Huffington Post. I guess to liberals “hate” speech is easy, any thing liberals disagree with must be stifled. Don’t change a thing Blaze! You to Memere2six

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• p8triot

  Sep. 5, 2010 at 10:45am

  Write a prescription. For what? What has been proven to work better at weight loss than diet and exercise? Plus, advising people to expect a prescription only reinforces the idea that someone else can fix your problems. It is misinformation. Stop buying crap food and get off your rear end. Look for healthy people to model your dietary life after if you need help. In the end, it is up to the individual to make the right choices and act.

  The old Federal dietary guidelines did not help matters either. For decades we have been trained to eat foods that encouraged obesity. Is anyone surprised that the Feds are now trying to fix a problem that they assisted in creating?

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  • TruthLover

    Sep. 7, 2010 at 12:48am

    Exactly. Not only that, but did you see the new president’s list of top 10 things keeping American’s fat? It’s jam packed with things like – plastic. Preservatives. Things we pretty much can’t get away from – because of what our government has allowed to happen in our marketplace. Did you know that Red40 is illegal everywhere but in America? It’s in nearly everything here.

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• samfreedom

  Sep. 5, 2010 at 10:45am

  Can you say nanny state?

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• EqualJustice

  Sep. 5, 2010 at 10:44am

  THIS IS VERY SAD.. she’s a MOTHER who said her own youngest daughter was TOO FAT? That’s pretty sick in my book and one reason why so many young girls have eating disorders. IT’S NOT JUST THEIR DIET!!! KIDS TODAY DO NOT GET ENOUGH PHYSICAL ACTIVITY! What happened to physical fitness programs DURING AND AFTER school EVERY DAY? Teaching progressive crap is so much more important? It’s not safe for kids to just go PLAY outdoors, so they sit at a computer or play video games instead. We’ve had the same diets for young people since the beginning of the working mom era. I don’t ever remember a bunch of FAT kids in school? This generation needs to get up and MOVE! The focus should be moved from FOOD to EXERCISE.

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  • baldwin4freedom

    Sep. 5, 2010 at 4:11pm

    Right on.

    Just like when you have a young horse that is a little broncy. Get him a little tired and then he is ready to learn.

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  • mother of eight

    Sep. 6, 2010 at 2:18am

    I agree with a number of the thoughts expressed here, and I have the goal of not taking my children to a doctor unless something is broken, won’t stop bleeding, or doesn’t get better with a reasonable amount of rest (up to 10 days for a virus;right?)
    I tend to think this article was put together more to invoke an emotional response than to inform, and I find that disappointing. There is no explanation of what she means by “not just measuring BMI, but writing prescriptions” Prescriptions for what? I didn’t know you could just take something in place of all that healthy eating and exercise. Who wouldn’t be tempted by that? Well, I guess not me.

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  • LadyIzShy

    Sep. 6, 2010 at 11:40am

    when I was growing up I was outside ALL the time if i was not at school I was outside until the street lights came on. I swear I dont even remember using the restroom during the day. I was skinny until I was a teen. then i moved and well became lazy with NOTHING to do.. now our kids set and do nothing they use the computer and text..I agree they need to move

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• bswanson

  Sep. 5, 2010 at 10:41am

  Did we elect the FLOTUS? Did she take an oath of office? Is she setting policy?

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  • memere2six

    Sep. 6, 2010 at 10:54am

    Personally, I think SHE wears the pants in that family.

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• kthomas629

  Sep. 5, 2010 at 10:39am

  This really burns me up, this is the same crap I am going through right now with my son and school over his ADD. I’m completely opposed to sticking him on a bunch of stimulant drugs to get him to better pay attention in class, but that is the only suggestion any teacher, doctor or specialist will ever come up with!! I’m changing his diet and giving him homeopathic herbs and vitamins to try and help his concentration, rather than giving in and heading for the pharmacy w/a prescription for Ritalin in hand! We are DRUGGING our kids to death and FOR WHAT PURPOSE? To please a bunch of strangers: doctors, teachers and politicans…I don’t think so.

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  • zagfan

    Sep. 5, 2010 at 10:57am

    Don’t do it! In the stone age I went to school with kids that were considered rowdy or could not concentrate. They grew out of it as they matured a little and went on to be good students. The teachers don’t want to take the time to help these kids, they want a room full of zombies paying attention and easy to indoctrinate. Any one out of the “normal” is a problem to them.

    How many generations went to school before the pills came out and became good citizens? What worries me, kid are different and some have more energy than others. If they can’t let that energy out because they are drugged, what happens when all that pent up energy is released once they are off the pills? Nature needs to run it’s course. Just work with your son to make sure he is at a learning level so he doesn’t fall behind. There is no way I would ever allow a child to be drugged to appease the lazy teacher that can’t put her/him self out to help.

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  • willwags

    Sep. 5, 2010 at 11:05am

    Not sure if this will help in your situation. When I was in the second grade, many years ago, it turned out that I had problems with day dreaming, not concentrating, etc. It is now called ADD. At the time, though, the first reaction was not drugs. I had to bring and use a timer for everything. It only lasted for a year and helped throughout the rest of my school time. If you can get the teacher to work with you this may be an option you can explore.

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  • SRQVET

    Sep. 5, 2010 at 11:13am

    kthomas629,

    Last year Woman’s World magazine had an article about a sensory belt which helps children with ADHD. Seems it would beat having children take drugs.

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  • EZBurns

    Sep. 5, 2010 at 11:20am

    ADD and ADHD are real, but there are lots of support groups that can guide you in making non-medication changes in your child’s life that will help him. Some grow out of it, some don’t. It’s more a case of being aware of how your brain is wired (not bad, just different) and working with it.

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  • SunnyJ

    Sep. 5, 2010 at 11:53am

    You are on the right track. Pay attention to what foods your child craves as he and his body are attempting to self regulate/sedate or self stumulating. I have ADD and my teenage daughter too. I found out in my 30′s and learned to coach myself. I saw it in my daughter right away and she has been coached also. No meds. Ever. Now you are going to think I’m crazy since you are being told your child has a disability. It is not. It is a gift. We see the world in technacolor! I can have 8 tracks running at the same time and actually see the algorithm in my mind. My daughter is the same and is an honor student, equestrian, vocalist etc. She uses her horsemanship and music to rest her mind. Your child has a gift that will manage him if he is not coached on how to manage the gift. Once he gets that down, there are no limits for him. We use a key word: overwhelmed to signal when the tracks get chaotic and start to take over. I’ve coached her that it’s a room full of rabbits, hundreds of them all out of the cage…what to do? What rabbit at a time. Pick up one rabbit and put it in the cage and so on….Good luck to you!

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  • Mdudd62

    Sep. 5, 2010 at 2:17pm

    Your right, keep the pills away from our children. I’m guessing your child is between 7 & 11, they tried to tell me my kids needed medication to focus, I told them he was a normal child with too much energy and as a teacher they need to deal with it and not rush to put our kids in a coma just so you can have a nice easy day. Don’t get me wrong there needs to be parent intervention when things go to far but not with drugs. My son has now finished hight school with a 4.5 GPA and never had one script

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• butler180

  Sep. 5, 2010 at 10:39am

  Mr. Orwell only missed ‘Big Brother’ by 22 years, but he was right on.
  The American people elected a guy they considered a ‘honey’ but he came with a control nut.
  Before we vote, we should listen.

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• MikeinIdaho

  Sep. 5, 2010 at 10:37am

  Obamacare at work for YOU, America! And this is only the beginning, folks!
  Throw ALL marxists out, ASAP!
  REMEMBER IN NOVEMBER!

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  • memere2six

    Sep. 6, 2010 at 10:50am

    AMEN !!!

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• parmajohn

  Sep. 5, 2010 at 10:35am

  Maybe Big Momma should make a propaganda ad on the evils of smoking so P-BO doesn’t ruin our new furniture In our Oval Office Just a thought GBGB

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• Rhondako

  Sep. 5, 2010 at 10:35am

  Who let her out???

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• vortigin

  Sep. 5, 2010 at 10:35am

  ok its ez to call out my life,or my body. the truth is i work for a large cement company. we have company benifits an well company health checks, streching meetings, and blue cross blue shield say. we get screend twice a year. so cry me a river they want to do the same. fat kids cry no i dont want to be a number with a lb behind it.

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  • Huckabee Gingrich 12

    Sep. 5, 2010 at 1:30pm

    My brain hurts from trying to read this incoherant paragraph.
    Maybe some remedial English is in order, Vorty.

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  • boxofpens

    Sep. 5, 2010 at 6:39pm

    wow! There is no rational response to that mess.

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• honor007

  Sep. 5, 2010 at 10:32am

  How about just making your kids go out to play and get some excercise…..flippin’ nanny state. Our kids are drugged too much as it is??

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  • EZBurns

    Sep. 5, 2010 at 10:38am

    Exactly! It’s the bad eating habits and lack of exercise that’s the issue. Meds/drugs even with adults are the very very last resort.

     

  • dadoffive

    Sep. 5, 2010 at 1:04pm

    totally agree!!! we got rid of our tv and satellite about a month ago, and it truly has been the best thing for our family. we still have the internet of course!!!!!

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  • jcdgwilson

    Sep. 5, 2010 at 7:31pm

    I agree, and how about stopping all of the spending and entitlements so we don’t have to work so much and can be home with out kids. Mine could go out and play more if I didn’t have to work all of the time. Sooooo…..maybe it’s the government making them fat!!!!! LOL

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• canuck44

  Sep. 5, 2010 at 10:29am

  It really should be FLATUS, First Lady Antagonizing The USA, because quite frankly her true nature has come out and she is about as popular as a beer fart in a crowded elevator.
  BMI is only of minimal value in evaluating kids’ body stature. Athletic kids with less than 5% body fat are often deemed as being “obese”. Kids with airway obstruction from tonsils and secondary sleep disturbance cannot lose weight until the sleep pattern is corrected and the body’s growth hormone and the fat based metabolic regulator leptin return to normal levels. Are we supposed to write a Rx for T&A? It appears that the most dangerous fat in America resides between the ears of the Washington liberal ruling class.
  The good news is that these slugs are creating an environment for a parallel healthcare system where government is banished but has no access to the privacy of the patients, where EMR is forbidden and insurance companies are the patients’ problem.
  Imagine the government having access to all the Electronic Records of each individual. Right now you can check a car out on CarFAX or you can purchase an individual’s demographics from the state license bureau. Meet some guy in the bar and the state will sell you his psychiatric and urologic history….PenisFAX if you like.

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• zagfan

  Sep. 5, 2010 at 10:29am

  Oh Brother! Instead of pilling up the kids why not give the parents a swift kick and maybe a smart pill? The parents are usually as obese as the kids! It’s not healthy and is creating many health problems, but the government needs to **** out and stop trying to control. If they are worried about the cost on their great new health plan…eliminate the plan!

  Basically, get out of our lives!

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  • Veritas

    Sep. 5, 2010 at 11:18am

    Amen

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• Okiegal

  Sep. 5, 2010 at 10:26am

  This is beyond ridiculous now…Can we NOT live our lives without scrutiny of Govt? Again Obama saying one thing to our faces and doing somthing different behind our backs…He is all about control…when the govt controls every aspect and every penny will we have any peace?

  How can this country be so far off track?

  I can only shake my head in disbelief…

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  • landof thefree

    Sep. 5, 2010 at 10:48am

    Don’t you know that it is easier to starve a skinny person to death than a fat one. With all the new rules and regulations it will happen.

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  • kobuk

    Sep. 5, 2010 at 12:05pm

    You got it !

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  • Lisa Mc

    Sep. 5, 2010 at 1:07pm

    Prescription diet pills for kids? Oh that’s great. Pay no attention to the tens of thousands of teenage girls with eating disorders like bulimia and anorexia killing themselves to be thin.

    How is it possible to disagree with a President and his wife on EVERYTHING??

    Leave our kids alone!

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  • misterbb

    Sep. 5, 2010 at 1:41pm

    yeah! First the government says I can’t be married to a same-sex partner, now they’re telling me how to raise my fat kids!!! Anarcho-socialism is takin’ over.

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  • walkwithme1966

    Sep. 5, 2010 at 8:00pm

    Where did she say “prescription diet pills” – a primary care physician can be writing a prescription of all types of things – referring you to a dietican, or a therapist. This video has too many breaks and is taken out of context so we really can’t get a clear idea from the video just exactly what she is talking about. We need to stop jumping to conclusions and be honorable when talking about the First Lady – at least that’s what I believe. People will come on this website and see some of the comments made here and then the right get another bad rap. We have to show our best side to the outside world so that we stop being the joke of the other side.

     

• jrichardson

  Sep. 5, 2010 at 10:23am

  What makes Michelle the expert on BMI. Anyone with common sense must know that teaching your children healthy eating habits and excercise leads to ideal body weight. The parents must have control not the government. If the government wants to control something, maybe no junk food for food stamp recepients. Michelle appears to be overweight herself.

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  • chiawapa

    Sep. 5, 2010 at 6:22pm

    That is a good idea after they pass the drug screening!

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  • Midwest Belle

    Sep. 5, 2010 at 11:05pm

    I don’t think Michelle has looked at her behind in a mirror lately. You can’t tell me that’s muscle.

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• SunnyJ

  Sep. 5, 2010 at 10:23am

  Is there an end to this? Where do you see the end to this? I am in Physical Therapy and my 13 yr old daughter came home from school with a letter saying her BMI was too high…she was 5ft 1in and weighed under 100lbs. Her BMI is high because she is very strong from years of equestrian sports, jumping and cross country and the conditioning that goes with this sport. She was able to laugh about it because she has a good grounding in eating for herself and her bodies needs and lives with a health care provider that is able to explain what all this really means. But, she had friends that don’t have this guidance and some were really upset…dieting became a big issue. This is a pathetic further attempt to reduce the individual to what is good for the collective. Children and adults need to learn to respect their own body and learn to listen to its voice. They need to know there is no bad food or good food its just fuel and each of us needs and burns fuel differently. Trying to reduce you to a calculated BMI number is just more junk thinking being touted by control freaks that cannot get enough of running your life, my life, and anyone else that will let them. This is the ultimate nanny state. If you live long enough you’ll have seen coffee come and go, eggs good, bad, now good…oops bad again, whatever! I’m convinced that broccoli can kill you in the wrong hands!

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  • kaypal

    Sep. 5, 2010 at 11:12am

    I agree whole heartedly. We, as parents, need to be sure to explain what it means to eat and live a healthy life style. If you go by BMI, most athletes would be considered obese.

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  • Beth_Donovan

    Sep. 5, 2010 at 11:56am

    Michele Obama will be responsible for increasing the level of eating disorders in children with this really stupid emphasis on BMI, which does not look at strength, muscle mass or endurance – only weight and height.

    It is ridiculous. It’s not the government’s business. Every child is different, grows at different rates and many children with a high BMI are either entering a growth spurt or are very strong, fit kids whose muscles weigh more than fat.

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  • billnjill

    Sep. 5, 2010 at 1:49pm

    What, totally, cracks me up is these are the same people just a few short years ago that told me I could not tell my daughter she was overweight because it would hurt her little ego. Now they tell me that they are the ones to tell her that she is fat. I don’t know, but it seems to me like it would be better coming from a loving parent than the cold clinical setting of a school. Back off federal govt, you are waaaaaay overstepping your bounds!!!!!

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  • TheBees

    Sep. 5, 2010 at 2:31pm

    Who was the moron that ever came up with the BMI anyway? If I ever find him he gets a baseball bat up side the head! I have proven the BMI is not an accurate measurement of fitness. I have a few exta lbs on me, but I have run 2 1/2 marathons and am currently training for a full marathon. Can you do that Michelle my belle? Not with that big huge booty!

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  • lovemysoldier

    Sep. 5, 2010 at 2:58pm

    Some Belgian dude came up with it in 1832… and even he didn’t intend it as a way to measure body fat. Those two facts alone should call the whole “BMI Equation” into question, don’t ya’ think?

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  • Ryan Santos

    Sep. 5, 2010 at 6:06pm

    Welcome to a government that is trying to fix everything that is not broken, so the Average American does not look at where the Left hand is hiding or Digging…Blessed Be. Ryan Santos, American

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  • angeljen

    Sep. 5, 2010 at 7:23pm

    I have 2 things to talk about: First my daughter maybe only be 5 years old but, she thick, big boned. She’s not fat but now I wonder if the Doctor would say she is. Ya’ll are right about the eating disorders and I think the effects of that are just as bad. Also on the other hand my 22 month old daughter is on the small side 21lbs. So what are they going to call child serivces on me because she is the weight of a 1 year old??

    Second the Military had standards like this and my Exhusband was so close to getting kicked out because of things like the BMI he was 6’2″ at 245lbs. His max for the Air Force was 224lbs. Which after he did everything to lose weight and it didn’t help, running all the time. He was up there running with the 20year olds that are alot skinnier than he on the 1.5mile run they time you for. He was over by weight for their standards.

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  • lanky189

    Sep. 5, 2010 at 10:25pm

    You are absolutely right, as further proof. Read on here: http://www.docshop.com/2008/04/08/arnold-schwarzenegger-is-obese-problems-with-body-mass-index-bmi-calculations/

    BMI is FLAWED!!! we are not all built the same and therefore do not all fit or should be forced to conform a mathematically created chart.

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  • nwchiro

    Sep. 6, 2010 at 10:41am

    Wonder how many of our children (girls especially) will develope Bulimia, because their BMI indicates they are over weight? Then mother flotus will tell the Doctors to give them more pills for that. I’ll bet she will win lobbiest of the decade from the pharmaceutical companies.

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  • LadyIzShy

    Sep. 6, 2010 at 11:35am

    yep they tell us one day something is “good” for us then the next it is bad. I have a daughter who gets very little from her food so she is always starving she eats HUGE amounts of food and is not a bit over weight however people are always tells her not to eat so much. I want to tell everyone to MYOB

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• givenlife58

  Sep. 5, 2010 at 10:19am

  She is just not believable. I think she does not even buy the koolaid she is selling.

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• satman40

  Sep. 5, 2010 at 10:19am

  Give them more Bi Fed a mine 20′s, and put them to bed with a Quad….

  After a while all their voices will shake like Lady Diva’s, and they will need someone to stand beside them to stand up straight….

  Hog Jaws are not a good thing,

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• badswing

  Sep. 5, 2010 at 10:14am

  control control control

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  • AGracie

    Sep. 5, 2010 at 2:17pm

    Exactly

     

• Dragonez

  Sep. 5, 2010 at 10:14am

  Pharmaceutical lobbyists at work!

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  • dadoffive

    Sep. 5, 2010 at 1:00pm

    bill o’reilly had this pegged just right in “who’s looking out for you” makes me sick; maybe i need a prescription for that.

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  • alshere

    Sep. 5, 2010 at 6:15pm

    No—-Idiots at work!!!! As a retired health worker you don’t treat child obesity with drugs. What is used are amphetamines. Remember this saying from they sixties and seventies “Speed kills”

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  • Live Free or Die

    Sep. 5, 2010 at 6:23pm

    Prescriptions for WHAT?
    The city I live in has 1 obese person in the high school, 1 obese person in the Jr. High, and in all 4 elementary schools – 0 obese children.

    Where are all of these obese kids? If they (they do) fall into a racial or urban category – say THAT.
    This is not a widespread US problem.

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  • extexjb

    Sep. 5, 2010 at 6:24pm

    I don’t think, though, in a FREE nation (republic) ANYONE should be ‘dictating’ medical treatments! And to SOON be ordering American citizens on every phase of their exams & rationed treatment! The people in our WH (DC in general) are reminding us more & more of the late 20′s Germany.

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  • pvtgump

    Sep. 7, 2010 at 6:10am

    will obamacare cover lypo to remove BFA’s?……..

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• fedup

  Sep. 5, 2010 at 10:13am

  just drink the koolaid, It’s for your own good

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  • T.E.A. Eagar AZ

    Sep. 5, 2010 at 10:47am

    Just make sure that the Koolaid is sweetened with aspartame.

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  • warner

    Sep. 5, 2010 at 12:44pm

    Dressseler..I totally agree! Your argument is truth and that is why I have an issue with Universal Health Care. Why should I pay for the people who want to abuse their bodies by eating junk, or smoking, or taking drugs, etc? This is America and you have freedoms…just don’t expect other people to fund your bad habits. Mrs. O – of all the pet projects a first lady could lead this is what you came up with…how about the lack of skill in reading, writing, basic math? Or, unwed mothers? I could go on forever….I will take care of my own family, thank you!

     

  • CheesecakeLarry

    Sep. 5, 2010 at 1:20pm

    Can I get some twinkies with that koolaid? :-P

     

  • danglingbags

    Sep. 5, 2010 at 2:34pm

    THIS VIDEO AND ARTICLE AND NOT IN CONTEXT.

    SHE IS OFFERING AN ARRAY OF SOLUTIONS FOR CHILDHOOD OBESITY. STATISTICS THE OVER HALF OF US ARE OBESE. HAS OBESITY BECOME PARTISAN TOO?

    AS USUAL IT IS DISTORTED. ARE THE UNFLATTERING PHOTOS ALSO PART OF THE PLAN?

    BUT ABOVE ALL EVERYONE!!!!!!! GOD IS GREAT, GOLD IS GREATER…SO BUY GOLD!!!!!

     

  • aafriend

    Sep. 5, 2010 at 2:35pm

    Here is a concept, Kids are molded in there early years. when i was in school i remember them teaching us about nutrition. stop indoctrinating our children and lets teach them about how to live a moral, principal, integrity and, honest filled humbled life. the Government wants a society medicated and have us all walking around like a bunch of social zombies to control us. stay out of our homes, do the right thing. everyone has a mirror at home, lets all as responsible parents start looking in the mirror. Lets be examples stop letting the boogie man run our lives (The Government).

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  • saneromeo

    Sep. 5, 2010 at 5:33pm

    Not to be rude Michelle, but pull the steak from your own thigh before worrying about the fry in mine…

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  • mickie4

    Sep. 5, 2010 at 7:54pm

    Anyone who has a weight problem and has tried to lose weight knows that popping pills is NOT the answer!
    And to give pills to children is absolutely criminal.

    Weight Watcher lifetime member.

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  • JJ Coolay

    Sep. 6, 2010 at 12:59am

    Venom: Here here!

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  • JETJOCKEY

    Sep. 6, 2010 at 4:24am

    wow!! If pills could make you thin.. there would be no fat people!!

    It is absurd to treat kid’s BAD EATING HABITS, with drugs, but lets face it, we live in a drug culture! How many hundreds of TV ads are posted every day, that recommend some pill to fix “EVERYTHING” that could possibly happen to the human body?. What ever happened to “PARENTS”??

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  • 1st a Father

    Sep. 6, 2010 at 5:49am

    Mrs. Obama, I respectfully request you keep your well intentioned hands (cough, cough) away from my children. Please allow me to be a good steward over my own responsibility for my children’s healthcare needs. Me and my family don’t need the healthcare protection of big government telling my family doctor what to do.

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  • ebill

    Sep. 6, 2010 at 1:30pm

    And you don’t have to worry about the cost cause it’s all FREE! Yippee!
    One temporary dictator is enough!

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  • Gigantopithecus

    Sep. 6, 2010 at 4:59pm

    And make sure it’s served with a side order of lobster, but only for the black kids.

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  • TruthLover

    Sep. 7, 2010 at 12:43am

    saneromeo
    Posted on September 5, 2010 at 5:33pm

    Not to be rude Michelle, but pull the steak from your own thigh before worrying about the fry in mine…

    OH MAN! Thanks for the laugh.

    And micky4 -you’re so right. Kids don’t need more pills! That’s our govt’s solution to everything! Don’t solve it – medicate it! Besides – are there even weight loss drugs out there that have been TESTED for use on kids? That should require 30 years of followup to be sure there are no maleffects. They can’t even get weight loss drugs for adults that won’t kill us.

    They want all of us hooked on drugs so they can force us all onto their welfare when the RX companies jack up the prices so high we can’t afford anything and our private insurers stop paying. It’s all part of their plan.

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  • Strunz0

    Sep. 7, 2010 at 2:49am

    Dinglebags
    Here is what is inherently wrong with liberals in this administration:
    In order to offer a solution, you must first look at the problem (the real cause).
    Obesity is a problem in this country because everyone is getting fed.
    Everyone is getting fed because there are cheap (and very unhealthy) solutions to hunger.
    The cheap option (or food stamp option) is usually better than going hungry and thus, people eat junk food.
    So the healthcare of these people also comes into the picture later.
    They can barely afford to feed themselves, how will they get healthcare?
    Just give them prescriptions (taxpayer funded of course), they will be fine…
    It really is almost comical how hypocritical the pres and first lady are. “I’m going to smoke 2 packs of cigarettes a day, tax the crap out of them while buying mine with taxpayer money, then mandate that insurance companies cover you no matter what”
    P.S. – the BMI system is generally flawed and isn’t a good indicator of your health, so what relevance does this have? Is this the stuff that Michelle and her personal aid army sit around and think of all day (in between taxpayer funded trips around Europe)?

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  • emmanuel Goldstein

    Sep. 7, 2010 at 10:07am

    It was Flavor Aid, not Kool Aid. Get your story straight. ;-)

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