Health

Michelle Obama Tells Restaurants Less Butter, More Apples

WASHINGTON (AP) – First lady Michelle Obama is prodding the nation’s restaurants to add more healthy options to menus, label those items more prominently and market nutritious foods to kids.

Speaking to the National Restaurant Association on Monday, Mrs. Obama pleaded with restaurants small and large to take a little butter or cream out of their dishes, use low fat milk and provide apple slices or carrots as a default side dish on the kids’ menu.Michelle Obama Tells Restaurants Less Butter, More Apples

Mrs. Obama said that Americans are spending half their food dollars outside the home and eating a third of meals in restaurants. She asked the restaurants to rethink the food they offer and reformulate their menus to help combat childhood obesity.

“We have to do more, we have to go farther, and we need your help to lead this effort,” she told the restaurateurs and executives.

The first lady has delivered similar messages to schools and the nation’s largest food companies as part of her effort to boost childhood nutrition. She told the restaurant industry that parents’ choices at restaurants need to be easier, and healthy options shouldn’t be buried on the menu.

She appealed to the industry’s creativeness to get the job done.

“You know what gets them to drive their poor parents crazy because they just have to have something,” she said.

Restaurants are often thought of as the worst offenders in terms of nutrition. Executives listening to the first lady’s speech said they are rethinking their menus as the public has demanded it.

Jean Birch, president of IHOP, said her company will soon be coming out with a new childrens’ menu on which all items will be under 600 calories and fruit is the default side. She said the aim is for parents not to have to argue with their kids to get them to order healthier items.

“The whole idea is to not have the fight at the beginning and we think that makes a lot of sense,” she said.

Geoff Tracy, owner of four restaurants in the Washington area, said he rewrote his restaurants’ menus after he had his own children. Kids can now have smaller portions of adult meals and fruit like pineapple skewers on the side.

“I don’t think we give kids enough credit,” he said.

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  • Joseph
    Posted on September 13, 2010 at 11:40pm

    If it comes down to having heath care/versus what someone says I have to eat…I’ll set my own broken bones, and use herbal treatments for any illness before someone tells me what i can eat!!! I’m really P.O.ed with this“Self censored” from these “ More continued self censored”. What, now I have to live in a cave and hide from the food police inorder to live my life how I wish to? These“ Self censored” make me sick with there high falooting city people nonsense.GIVE ME CHEESE BURGER!!!OR GIVE ME DEATH!!!

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    • OBAMAWORSHIOER
      Posted on September 14, 2010 at 12:00am

      You‘re just ungrateful for her wise counsel that show she truly wants only the best for you’ll

       
    • Joseph
      Posted on September 14, 2010 at 12:09am

      OBAMAWORSHIOER,
      I don’t need a mommy for that!

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    • OBAMAWORSHIOER
      Posted on September 14, 2010 at 12:33am

      How much do you weigh? How high is your colestral and triclirides? I resent you sponging off me by forcing me to pay higher insurance levels. Maybe you do need a mommy?

       
    • JJ Coolay
      Posted on September 14, 2010 at 1:44am

      Obamaworshioer…. are you for real?

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    • alienguns
      Posted on September 14, 2010 at 9:06am

      OBAMAWORSHIOER…………..the Obamas are not about helping people…they are about controlling people…..its the “do as I say, not as I do routine…..The I know better than all of you because I was a community organizer once mentality…..these people couldn’t run a lemonade stand let alone any kind of business……and I think you are sponging off me because I have a job and PAY for my insurance. I’ll bet you and most your progressive brothers and sisters are living off of my dime…….get a job…and a life…quit trying to control other peoples lives….they are happy…not miserable like you and your kind

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    • Hugh Williams
      Posted on September 14, 2010 at 11:07am

      Total control and domination of the public is always the end result of Marxist, Communist and Progressive policies to help the people.

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    • poppopschell
      Posted on September 14, 2010 at 3:12pm

      WADR, the only thing I see here are attacks on Obamawsorshiper and his positions. You didn’t answer his questions. as a Conservative, do you believe in one person being forced to subsidize another person? IF your poor eating habits cause you to use a great deal of health care paid by an insurance company and I am careful with my health, I premiums I pay will be higher because of your FREE CHOICES. Isn’t that me being forced to subsidize your poor behavior? If not, why NOT?

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    • JeffersonIsMyMan
      Posted on September 14, 2010 at 5:26pm

      OBAMAWORSHIOER:

      Again, Michelle can want the best for me all she wants (my REAL mommy wants the best for me, too). But when she starts to actually regulate it, then it becomes an infringement upon my liberty. “LIBERTY” seems to be a concept that escapes your understanding. And to answer some of your questions, EVERYONE in one way or form subsidizes other people: welfare, stimulus, you name it. Unfortunately, we derailed from the founding father’s original intent for taxes a long time ago. But every time there is more regulation, NO MATTER WHAT IT MAY BE, I lose more liberty. And that is the problem….

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    • Beckofile
      Posted on September 15, 2010 at 5:00pm

      Obamaworshiper or Michelle….I know what is best for me and mine. Go take care of yours and we will be just fine. It is the fact that you have been indocrinated into believe nationalized healthcare is about health. This story is just the beginning of how an out of control tyranny can first pass collective laws that then rope us all into doing just what they want because we don’t want to hurt the collective. She will be gunning for you next and might decide you should replace your apples with a little sleepy poison. They get to change the rules during the game from here on out.

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  • redneckphilosopher
    Posted on September 13, 2010 at 11:30pm

    Wasn’t there another woman that convinced people to eat the fruit? sounds like I heard this story before. I don’t think it turned out well.

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    • Joseph
      Posted on September 14, 2010 at 12:10am

      Yeah and her huban blamed her, and she blamed Clinton

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    • wingedwolf
      Posted on September 14, 2010 at 6:54pm

      But it was really George W. Bush’s fault!

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  • Gita
    Posted on September 13, 2010 at 11:25pm

    I’d like to make a suggestion to you Moochelle. You need to take some ballet lessons honey cause you’re about as graceful as an elephant. Do you think Obamazilla could mandate that!

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  • RojBlake
    Posted on September 13, 2010 at 11:25pm

    By the way, you know that this is just the beginning,,,under Obamacare the government will begin to regulate everything on the basis of “keeping you healthy”, & “keeping the health costs down”.

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  • Joseph
    Posted on September 13, 2010 at 11:20pm

    Why doesn’t she just start her own resturant and have a chain that all of their Moonbat sicaphants can be part of? She can call it, “OBOZO’S” and instead of one clown in the comercials, there can be two! B.O. Plenty and Good and Plenty…and your menu can have what ever you wish to have on it, as long as it is Halal

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  • rocktruth
    Posted on September 13, 2010 at 11:19pm

    I love butter.

    We are now rediscovering how natural foods are healthy for us. Earlier some of the natural foods were wrongly accused of being harmful. Take butter. Many people needlessly excluded it from their diet, buying into the spin that butter increases cholesterol levels and that hype about cheap butter substitutes which we’ve recently have known are way unhealthier than natural butter. Though butter is an energetic food high in calories, it is very rich in amino acids and vitamins we badly need for healthy living. Greater than that, amino acids and vitamins are so well balanced that daily moderate consumption of butter would bring only benefits.

    Scientists at Tufts Medical School found that cholesterol in natural butter does not increase cholesterol levels.

    * Butter is completely natural
    * Butter is rich in natural vitamin A, also good source of vitamins D, E, K
    * Also contains mineral selenium, an anti-oxidant, iodine and lecithin
    * Linoleic, lauric and butyric acids play important roles in our body and butter contains them all
    * And yes, it contains cholesterol – a very important ingredient for brain development, cell elasticity and healthy intestines. Children especially need it in the diet!
    http://sustainableecho.com/butter-vs-margarine/

    Also, butter is much heather to cook with then margarine or veggie oil.
    http://www.webexhibits.org/butter/cooking.html

    But too much of anything even water is not good for you.

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    • M31Sailor
      Posted on September 13, 2010 at 11:24pm

      And Michelle
      Its great on lobster

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    • Joseph
      Posted on September 13, 2010 at 11:33pm

      You said it brother! Ghee is also good, “clarified butter” and what about the Eskimos???they don’t eat much vegies, and their diet was mainly,Blubber,Fat. and they were thin people too.

      and your right about butter subsitutes also! I‘m glad to see there’s someone that knows the facts and truth out here. Also may I add the whey,biproduct of making butter is your protien source on top of that.This is food God gives us, but look at who wants to look at it as if it were evil!!!

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    • OBAMAWORSHIOER
      Posted on September 13, 2010 at 11:57pm

      How dare you report the results of research on butter. Do you work for the dairy industry as a paid lobbyist?

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    • Joseph
      Posted on September 14, 2010 at 12:19am

      no OBAMAWORSHIOER, but ask the Eskimos that age range 200+ years ago was 60 years and all the ate mainly was blubber for the past 30.000 years.

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    • OBAMAWORSHIOER
      Posted on September 14, 2010 at 12:35am

      Hey Joesph the Eskimos have a very hard life and work streniously to burn the fat, etc off. They need the extra fat to keep warm. They smarter than most conservatives here. They care about their health.

       
    • rocktruth
      Posted on September 14, 2010 at 12:37am

      @ OBAMAWORSHIOER – I’ve actually been researching cooking oils for many years, and of course dairy companies will use FACT to promote their products. But you need to do your own research.

      But I also promote COCONUT OIL which looks and behaves like LARD at room temperature. It too is very fat but it’s not dairy.

      Please Learn more about Coconut Oil:
      http://www.coconut-connections.com/healthiest_oil.htm

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    • rocktruth
      Posted on September 14, 2010 at 1:02am

      @ OBAMAWORSHIOER – Are you calling conservatives like myself stupid because I’ve actually have done the research. Maybe you are the one who is being spoon fed lies?

      I am not saying that you should over eat or that too much of a good thing is bad.
      But it’s good to know the facts too.

      Do your own research. Start with this:
      http://www.ravnskov.nu/myth3.htm

      also read this:
      http://www.truthaboutabs.com/saturated-fat-is-not-evil.html
      By: Mike Geary.

      I don’t believe Mike Geary is being paid by the dairy industry.

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    • ChristosBell
      Posted on September 14, 2010 at 12:13pm

      I love butter too . . . thanks for the buttery facts!

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    • Joseph
      Posted on September 14, 2010 at 2:17pm

      Me too ChristosBell,

      When I tell the doctors how much butter, ghee, and that nice free range non hormonal feed fat marbled beef, they have to take a seat and shake their heads as they read the colesteral levels. ” It doesn’t make sense! How can the levels be so low?” The I tell them that it was 4 points higher last year, but I decided to cut out the half dozen crispy cream donuts and quart of hagan das per day to loose those 4 points.

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    • Time_To_Stand
      Posted on September 14, 2010 at 2:45pm

      Rocktruth
      Kudos to you. Your post is excellent!

      The government needs to stay out of our lives; we are all smart enought to decide when, how, what and where to eat.

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    • mlebeke
      Posted on September 14, 2010 at 4:06pm

      I agree. Everything in moderation.

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    • jaime
      Posted on September 14, 2010 at 4:36pm

      ROFLMAO, Obamaworshioer! Demonstrating absurdity by being absurd, I love it! (At least I hope that‘s what you’re doing).

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    • OriMai
      Posted on September 15, 2010 at 1:29am

      Crab legs too!

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  • M31Sailor
    Posted on September 13, 2010 at 11:15pm

    Remember the last time we saw a finger waving in our faces

    Billy boy saying “I did not have sex with that woman, MIiss Lewinsky”

    For the first time in my life i’m ashamed of my president(especially the way he throws a baseball)

    and the fist caloire counter lady

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  • MrsK
    Posted on September 13, 2010 at 11:13pm

    The charlatans in the White House are a joke.

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  • Joseph
    Posted on September 13, 2010 at 11:12pm

    Where’s Sponge Bob when you need him? Sponge Bob! Can you shove a “Crabby Patty” in her mouth? PLEASE!!!

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  • adrenwe
    Posted on September 13, 2010 at 11:10pm

    Shame on those restaurants for making Americans spend half their food money.

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  • gearboxaz
    Posted on September 13, 2010 at 11:09pm

    Yes, this is EXACTLY what the role of government should be – demanding (there is no “pleading” from the FLOTUS) that restaurants serve us healthier food. Next will come orders demanding that we eat the healthier food.

    Yeesh – what’s next? Weekly weigh-ins? “It’s for the good of society!” will no doubt be the justification. Seems to me I’ve heard a few past leaders use that justification before. Some with funny little moustaches.

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    • RESTORATION1787
      Posted on September 13, 2010 at 11:48pm

      The weigh ins will be with obama care as you visit your gov’t health care official.

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    • free2bme1961
      Posted on September 14, 2010 at 4:45am

      I totally agree with that last sentence!…and I always felt that when people who occasionally eat out at a restaurant do so, with the idea to splurge or have a drink, because it is something that is not an everyday thing; or perhaps to indulge in food choices that are not normally prepared at home…it also can be a chance to try different cuisine of different cultures!

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    • free2bme1961
      Posted on September 14, 2010 at 4:51am

      BTW…my comment about being in agreement was meant for GEARBOXAZ ….about the leaders with the funny little moustaches!

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  • Joseph
    Posted on September 13, 2010 at 11:06pm

    Will somone please send her on a vacation to Europe or Mars or something for the rest of her LIFE!!! PLEASE!!! Even if the taxpayer half to pay the bill!!! PLEASE!!!

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    • OBAMAWORSHIOER
      Posted on September 13, 2010 at 11:55pm

      Personal attacks on Michele? How unbecoming of you’ll. She loves you’ll and just wants the best for you. You’re a very ungrateful bunch.

       
    • Joseph
      Posted on September 14, 2010 at 12:15am

      then go have a pity party and take her with you

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    • OBAMAWORSHIOER
      Posted on September 14, 2010 at 12:36am

      Joeseph, you just prove our point that Conservatives use personal attacks and are insensitive. Thank you.

       
    • 1911
      Posted on September 14, 2010 at 7:31am

      hey Obamaworshioer >>>>DUH !

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    • HuskerVet
      Posted on September 14, 2010 at 10:19am

      @ObamaWorshior:
      “Personal attacks on Michele? How unbecoming of you’ll. She loves you’ll and just wants the best for you. You’re a very ungrateful bunch.

      Are you for real?? Do you have the mentality of an 8 year old? Do you consider Michelle the “Mother” of our country? Are you that naive that you don’t see idiocy of a Nanny State? Do you have to be told what to eat and when to do it? Are you willing to turn over all your freedoms to Big Government? Can you NOT think for yourself?

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    • Hugh Williams
      Posted on September 14, 2010 at 11:01am

      Quit feeding the trolls.

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    • DntFrgtToLaugh
      Posted on September 15, 2010 at 4:36am

      new to this… this is for obamaworshior. did you know we all die and sometimes even the heathy lifestyle people get sick. You are probably far too young to remember Youl Gibbons. He was one of the big health gurus in the 1970s. He did all the right things…and died of a heart attact before he was 50. Well, I guess he was no burden to the health system.

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  • RESTORATION1787
    Posted on September 13, 2010 at 11:06pm

    All this talk about food. I’m getting hungry. I guess I’ll get a Hot fudge sundae, A large slice of butter cake, and perhaps I’ll go a little healthy with some carrot cake. I better get it now before the nanny state has me arrested or fined!

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  • rocktruth
    Posted on September 13, 2010 at 11:05pm

    @ ChicagoJenn – You reminded me of the Veggie Tales Silly Song- His Cheeseburger.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XFNtXbkelM

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  • broker0101
    Posted on September 13, 2010 at 11:01pm

    Mrs. Obama appears, at first blush, to have more teeth than most people…. I’m just saying.

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  • paperpushermj
    Posted on September 13, 2010 at 10:52pm

    Roseanna: A guy could never say “lose her fat caboose” Thank you!

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  • ChicagoJenn
    Posted on September 13, 2010 at 10:50pm

    Kindly keep your hands off my cheeseburger w/fries Happy Meal, lady. That being said, I thought the role chief health police went to the Surgeon General. Oh, yeah, she’s quite large herself, not much of a role model there.

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    • Wendya
      Posted on September 15, 2010 at 12:06am

      Perhaps Michelle ought to learn a little about human metabolism before she starts handing out advice that can cause actual harm.

      The bread is the problem, not the butter.

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  • Joseph
    Posted on September 13, 2010 at 10:48pm

    Michelle Obama is now going to be the new Czar for the Sharia law for food. Just look at her face! Can’t you just here her saying, “Obey Sharia Law!” If you don’t, your taste buds will be cut off!

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    • Hugh Williams
      Posted on September 14, 2010 at 10:58am

      That would suck! Marijuana and cheeseburgers and fries just go together.

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  • JeffersonIsMyMan
    Posted on September 13, 2010 at 10:46pm

    When will the Nanny State leave us alone? If I want a cheeseburger and fries, I want the grease to go with it! I’m an adult. I know the consequences of eating a high fa meal, and for a good cheeseburger…..I’m willing to take the risk. I am so tired of someone living in “La-La Land” in Washington, D.C telling me what to do! If I had a private chef to cook for me after a long day on the job, I would eat better, too.

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    • Joseph
      Posted on September 13, 2010 at 11:01pm

      the joke will be that Marijuana will be open and legal to use,but you will have to face a fellony charge for possesion of a Cheese Burger and Fries.

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    • OBAMAWORSHIOER
      Posted on September 13, 2010 at 11:53pm

      But you esxpect me to pay in higher insurance premiums for your excess. That’s being a conservative?

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    • Metalist
      Posted on September 14, 2010 at 1:04am

      OBAMAWORSHIOER -

      No, being conservative means paying my own way. Personal responsibility, Individual freedom.

      A concept that is foreign to you, I’m sure.

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    • jussayin
      Posted on September 14, 2010 at 5:49pm

      OBAMAWORSHIOER
      Posted on September 13, 2010 at 11:53pm
      But you esxpect me to pay in higher insurance premiums for your excess. That’s being a conservative?

      But paying higher premiums for the lack of self control/personal responsibility that results in providing abortions to those that want them is just fine, right????

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  • RoseAnnaDanna
    Posted on September 13, 2010 at 10:45pm

    If she stopped stuffing her face at every single photo op with ice cream, lobster w/butter sauce and Kobe beef at $100/ pound she might lose that fat caboose she is carrying around. What a hypocrite and fraud.

    I am so embarassed to have these two destructive people represent my beloved country. November can’t come soon enough. I hope and pray we send a very very strong message of disapproval.

    BO is looking really skinny lately. Wonder what is wrong with him? And have you noticed how his pants seem to have static and cling to his legs. Maybe he is wearing MO‘s nylons that she won’t wear.

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    • Joseph
      Posted on September 13, 2010 at 10:59pm

      Ohhh Snap!!! Low Blow on the Obamalama Heffer Thang!

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    • slwolfgram
      Posted on September 13, 2010 at 11:07pm

      You said it !!!!

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    • OBAMAWORSHIOER
      Posted on September 13, 2010 at 11:51pm

      To get people to eat more resposnibly, we need to have a premium charged on health insurance for poor diets. What’s wrong with you guys?

       
    • Joseph
      Posted on September 14, 2010 at 12:13am

      What’s wrong OBAMAWORSHIOER? Your hand in my walet!

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    • van
      Posted on September 14, 2010 at 9:42am

      maybe it was the fasting during ramadan.

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    • Hugh Williams
      Posted on September 14, 2010 at 10:26am

      I know she is a destructive Marxist but, she is an attractive woman. Baby got back. lol…lol

      P.S. OBAMAWORSHIOER is probably another Media Matters plants. Don’t feed the trolls.

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  • paperpushermj
    Posted on September 13, 2010 at 10:42pm

    Here’s an idea Mrs Obama: You and your husband after the 2012 election will have plenty of time to start your own restaurant. As the owners you can decide to serve and cook how ever you want.

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    • Anonimouse
      Posted on September 14, 2010 at 8:03am

      The Obamas run a business? I give it a week before they’re begging for a bailout.

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  • ChicagoJenn
    Posted on September 13, 2010 at 10:40pm

    Keep your hands off my cheeseburger w/fries Happy Meal, lady. That being said, isn’t all this childhood obesity talk supposed to be the job of the Surgeon General? Oh, yeah, as I recall, she’s quite large. Not much of a role model. FLOTUS is not much of a role model either, not with all her excesses.

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    • Debrabate
      Posted on September 13, 2010 at 11:24pm

      Coming soon the a McDonalds near you… The Healthfood/Nutrician CZAR!

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    • JJ Coolay
      Posted on September 14, 2010 at 1:39am

      “FLOTUS is not much of a role model either, not with all her excesses.”

      Great point!

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    • Lanny Gene Wood
      Posted on September 14, 2010 at 7:31pm

      Mrs. “Bubble Butt” Michelle needs to get herself a wrap around mirror before lecturing others on what they should or should not eat. Most Moms don’t have a nutritionist or dietician planning their meals for the family or several cooks who prepare the meals. I wonder when was the last (or first) time Michelle went to the meat market, picked out the evening family meal and then went home and cooked it herself?

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  • RojBlake
    Posted on September 13, 2010 at 10:39pm

    I wish this woman would shut up, the reason more people are eating out is because if yoiu are fortunate to have a job you‘re working more overtime so you can’t cook; & if you are unemployed or underemployed you have to make decisions you’d rather not.

    I have kids, & I have to make a choice every time I buy groceries, I can buy healthy whole grain bread, 1 loaf, or I can buy 3 loaves of white bread that while not as healthy will keep them fed.

    Stop lecturing us Mrs. Obama we all don’t have private chefs, security, & food allowences!

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    • slwolfgram
      Posted on September 13, 2010 at 11:06pm

      She needs to mind her own business, like running this nation since she is Obozo’ s chief advisor. Take all the fat of the menus and put it in her mouth. Her lip flapping doesn’t impress me anymore than his does. She should go out into her garden she planted in the white house lawn and spread the bull and leave everyone else alone.

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    • OBAMAWORSHIOER
      Posted on September 13, 2010 at 11:49pm

      What hateful, racist remarks. Michelle isn’t only trying to make Americans healthier. She should be faulted for that?

       
    • RojBlake
      Posted on September 13, 2010 at 11:58pm

      OBAMAWORSHIOER
      I know this is a waste of time, but…
      1. How was anything I posted racist…or hateful for that matter?
      2. She has the right to want us to be more healthy.
      3. We have the right to say no thanks.
      4. As I indicated healthy choices are not always the best choices.
      5. It is not her wishes I object to…it is when it is enforced by the power of Government that it is WRONG.

      I just wanted “to be clear”!

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    • Joseph
      Posted on September 14, 2010 at 12:02am

      Michelle Obama ,you’re a baddy daddy lamatai tebby chai!

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    • JJ Coolay
      Posted on September 14, 2010 at 1:35am

      It’s hateful and racist to say that Michelle has private chefs?
      I thought that was the truth? Is speaking the truth hateful now?

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    • angryexpat
      Posted on September 14, 2010 at 9:04am

      OBAMAWORSHIOER

      Why is it that all you died in the wool Obama worshipers call foul and “racist” anytime anyone questions or says anything about this man? The same was true during the campaign when legit questions were asked about his past. Still unanswered today. Who are the real racist????

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    • sabichan
      Posted on September 14, 2010 at 12:49pm

      Can’t anyone stand up for flavor? Where’s the flavor lobby?

      More cream! More butter! Can’t the progressives force a restaurant to make good food only? Wait, what? The market does that? Oh.

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    • Massey-50
      Posted on September 14, 2010 at 6:55pm

      I don‘t appreciate being lectured by either of them or from any of the liberal side who don’t want anyone to be held responsible for there own actions/decisions.. I make my own choices and have to live with them. Maybe this is their motivator. They need us working folks to live longer so they can extend the age we can start collecting SS. We will also be able to continue to pay taxes to support their uncontrolled spending.

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  • jcatlanta
    Posted on September 13, 2010 at 10:39pm

    Oh PLEASE. Give me a break. This is yet another area where we don‘t need the government or Obozo’s wife telling us what to do. If we are a free country (and I use the word if very loosely), then irresponsible that want to feed their kids McDonalds every night then they should have the right to do it. I totally do not agree with the way we are porking up our children, but the government is NOT the parent. (at least not yet)

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    • OBAMAWORSHIOER
      Posted on September 13, 2010 at 11:48pm

      No way. Porogressives KNOW that most parents are irresponsible so the govt MUST step in. Unheathy diets lead to higher health costs.

       
    • M31Sailor
      Posted on September 14, 2010 at 12:19am

      I think you meant
      ObamaworshiPer You porogressives , nere sem two amaize me wit ure englesh skils

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    • Joseph
      Posted on September 14, 2010 at 12:29am

      LOL M31Sailor,

      I think if we were to have yogurt enimas and Quasi non fat non sweetened Koolade with Alfalfa sprout salad with a lama urine vinagrett she would be happy with us.The joke is that these Moonbats like OBAMAWORSHIOER have dark secrets. She probally hides in her closet as she sucks down on a double cheese pulled pork burrito with sour cream, and then finishes off with a quart of hagen das…

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    • M31Sailor
      Posted on September 14, 2010 at 1:11am

      Joseph this site is like when i first got Zelda stayed up all night and played except now my stomach hurts from laughing. The entertainment provided by DB ,,, numb Chompskeeeee Stupid and many others has been great.
      The insights of most posters has been educational
      Vote in November

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    • faktchekr
      Posted on September 14, 2010 at 1:11pm

      Hey WorshiPer, try paying for your own healthcare instead of sucking off the teat of everyone else who actually works for a living, then you won’t have to worry about what the rest of us are eating you self righteous, elitist, do-gooder…go worship a tree and leave us alone…

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    • butterfly53
      Posted on September 14, 2010 at 3:55pm

      I be those restaurants she and barry go to cook with butter.

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    • Beckofile
      Posted on September 15, 2010 at 4:51pm

      Obamaworshiper….If we left people to arrange for their own healthcare this would not be an issue. This is how it all starts….Libs pass healthcare and from then on anything that is now bad for any individual affects the collective so they find a way to outlaw, asses fees or tax it to death or just put you in jail if they don’t like your behavior. Healthcare gives government access to everything you do under this notion???????? Such a bummer they let retards like you self govern.

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  • smartypoop
    Posted on September 13, 2010 at 10:36pm

    Apparently she hasnt trotted into Mickey Ds in her $700.00 sneakers lately. You can already get apples with your happy meal.

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    • TruthLover
      Posted on September 13, 2010 at 11:16pm

      Yeah, but I’m not convinced they are actual apples. If you leave them out – they don’t turn brown or whither. McD’s chemically alters everything they sell…wonder what they do to the apples?

      I hate to say it but I’m glad Michelle is taking on the health stuff – if nothing else to raise awareness. God knows I don‘t want us to be like Australia where you can’t even get Suzi-Q’s or own a car if you live close enough to work to ride a bike, but better choices and simple changes here can make a big difference.

      *Says the woman who has lost 60 pounds this year just by going natural/organic.*

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    • Put_God_ First
      Posted on September 14, 2010 at 12:42am

      I think she has a big heart to want to help people eat better.
      But I am very well able to choose what I want to eat without her or anyone restricting what is available.

      In short she needs to butt out!
      Stay out of our lives. Let us be FREE!

      But NO Michelle Obama wants to be BIG MAMA!
      AGAIN LET US BE FREE!

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    • PeterBreitholtz
      Posted on September 14, 2010 at 1:10am

      Perhaps she should start directing her messages at those who don’t listen!

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    • kryss187
      Posted on September 14, 2010 at 4:46am

      the apples wont brown if you use lemon juice on them….old trick. :)

       
    • t00nces2
      Posted on September 14, 2010 at 5:07am

      I think she has a pretty big a$$ to be telling others how to eat.

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    • 79USMC83
      Posted on September 14, 2010 at 7:04am

      When I go out to eat for breakfast I have been ordering my toast DRY for years!!! This is all about choice and eating habits like most things come from OUR parents and how we are raised. The country is diverse and we have many cultures that eat many differant things. She is preaching to the Choir,because her husband sure likes eating CRAP and getting his photo taken doing it!!!!!

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    • tdftruckin
      Posted on September 14, 2010 at 7:14am

      Oh I’m sure she knows… She’s not happy with the option of the apples, she doesn’t think any of us “regular people” are smart enough to make our own choices. She want’s bid-daddy gubmint to mandate it. Obesity can be solved with 2 words… Personal Responsibility!

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    • Loosh11
      Posted on September 14, 2010 at 7:56am

      Michelle Nobama needs to shut up. I can’t stand this bullying into these restaurants. Let them cook how they want to and maybe you should educate the PEOPLE on good eating habits and leave it up to them. Don’t regulate my restaurants cause if you do, there will be hell to pay.

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    • Freelancer
      Posted on September 14, 2010 at 11:44am

      Have we EVER seem a photo of the Obama’s NOT waiving their finger at us “little people?” She is NOT one to talk about eating right when her a$$ is that fat now is she? She might want to eat some road apples…. I hear that they are chock full of good stuff.

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    • DocH
      Posted on September 14, 2010 at 2:49pm

      Apples don’t spoil if left out because they have been sprayed with pesticide to keep insect larvae (worms) from eating them before they are picked. The chemical gets into the flesh of the apple through the skin and bacteria can’t grow under the skin. Your liver detoxifies the pesticide when you eat the apple. Most of these apples are bred for their red skin color and are picked green and marginally ripened. That is why they taste like cardboard when you try to eat them. Fruits that are grown outside and likely to be heavily sprayed should be bought organic. Fruits that are “hothouse” grown are grown inside (probably like most tomatos) under controlled conditions and are likely to have less pesticides used in the growing process.

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    • butterfly53
      Posted on September 14, 2010 at 3:50pm

      Congrats on the weight loss truthlover,, but I will have to disagree with you on this one. The woman who can’t keep an ice cream come out of her pie hole, telling the rest of us that, and I quote, “ dessert is no a right”, has NO right to tell me what to eat. She is trying to be Mama obama and I resent the hell out of it. She needs to take a look at her backside in the mirror.

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    • Deb C
      Posted on September 14, 2010 at 5:27pm

      Its not only the fries…..its the poisoned meat as well…you ever see whats in it ? From engineered food, to hormones, herbacides, pesticides, insecticides, fertilizers…I guess in order to get to BIG Business you have to start small….

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    • POOR
      Posted on September 14, 2010 at 5:32pm

      I can’t afford to eat in a restaurant duet to Obama

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    • cinders1313
      Posted on September 14, 2010 at 6:22pm

      Michelle Obama should probably take her own advice! Look at the size of her butt. After a while us tax payers will most likely have to pay for her limo and one for her butt too! Nobody has the right to order/nudge people to do anything!

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    • Lanny Gene Wood
      Posted on September 14, 2010 at 7:22pm

      Michelle evidently wasn’t raised on traditional Black American “soul food”. I don’t believe it was on the menu at the cafeteria at Harvard either. Most kids grow up eating what their Dad and Mom can afford to put on the table and are thankful for it.

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    • swilsons05
      Posted on September 14, 2010 at 8:43pm

      “Nudge”

       
    • american4u
      Posted on September 14, 2010 at 8:55pm

      maybe her husband and her should eat less kobe beef @$75 per pound, and go to micky ds once in a while. save us some money

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    • RedStag
      Posted on September 15, 2010 at 1:21am

      TruthLover… I don’t need someone I have no respect for (Obama or otherwise), telling me to eat apples or anything else for that matter. I know what a good diet is and organic isn’t all that these hippies would lead you to believe.

      We don’t need the first lady (being generous), under the guise of helping people, become aware of something that they already know. It is not like it is the 40′s where dietary science is still quite young. We don’t know absolutely everything but we do know the basics. Who is out there that doesn’t understand that eating fast food and other fattening/high sugar foods to excess and not exercising causes you to gain weight and negatively affects your health? Who are these people? Even the people that are overweight know that eating that way is not healthy.

      I am glad you lost weight but the message has been poisoned by the hypocritical messenger. Just saying.

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    • stevemichigan
      Posted on September 15, 2010 at 2:59am

      We are picking on the first lady because she talking about getting us healthier? I guess when Ms Bush talked about reading books we should have said.. ” Shut up I dont need to learn how to read – Mind your own Ms Bush!” – Glenn is very stupid on this issue!

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    • teapartyquotes.com
      Posted on September 15, 2010 at 9:22am

      You guys are a riot! Thanks for all the great material…

      “She is NOT one to talk about eating right when her a$$ is that fat now is she?”
      “She needs to take a look at her backside in the mirror.”
      “Mrs. “Bubble Butt” Michelle needs to get herself a wrap around mirror.”

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    • lillymckim
      Posted on September 15, 2010 at 11:18am

      Michelle … “MYOB” when you can get Daddy War Bucks to stop smoking, eating ice cream, & burgers …
      come back and we will talk .. until then …zip it and MYOB!!!

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    • Beltfeed
      Posted on September 15, 2010 at 12:12pm

      We went to Mc Donalds last night we did not order any apples.

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    • trgtdron
      Posted on September 15, 2010 at 2:16pm

      how about making her husband tell the truth to the American people –and tell him to stop destroying our country — the way he is taking us there wont be enough food to eat soon………..

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    • Beckofile
      Posted on September 15, 2010 at 4:36pm

      Smartypoop….They are actually your sneakers. She though you might want to buy them for her while she was on her way to tell you what to do.

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    • Beckofile
      Posted on September 15, 2010 at 4:44pm

      Stevemichigan….The difference between Bush and Obama is sweet little Laura did not try to rearrage the library so you could only find books she liked. Obama is nudging your decisions by not offering certain choices and hiding more. This is how the whole tyranny thing starts dude.

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    • benrush
      Posted on September 21, 2010 at 9:14am

      If you think the food is not sufficiently health for you, go elsewhere. No one is forcing you to frequent a business you don’t enjoy. Leave the rest of us alone.

      Personally, I don‘t eat at McDonald’s either. But I will not stand in your way if you want to go. If you think you can do better, open your own business.

      I think we could all open our own businesses if we cut down on that heavy helping of government interference, oops, I mean regulation.

      Take the minimum wage for example. I mean take it away. The only thing it accomplishes is job shortages, fewer small businesses can open because they can’t afford the labor costs, and it protects the high priced union workers. Let us be free in the marketplace. I challenge any state that wants to take it on to set their own minimum wage, and attract entrepreneurs. It should be illegal for the Feds to mandate a certain price for labor. It’s none of their concern. It is for the state to regulate by the choice of the citizenry, not some central planning bureaucrat. If Missouri wanted to abolish the minimum wage and allow the free market to work its magic, it would become soon a Mecca of labor and management and entrepreneurship. If nothing else, we could allow it just to watch the effect it would have. My money says it would become a thriving economy against the prevailing downturn that these socialist policies are bringing about. Eliminate government regulation and watch the people make the best economic decisions for themselves, and soon prosperity would be the order of the day. That‘s my two cents worth but that advice alone is worth the price of all of Obama’s economic advisors.

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