Michelle and Barack Obama Criticize Junk Food Habits and
Forcing Changes on Public.
 Michelle's
$4.5 Billion Law Focuses On Childhood Obesity -
As Kids Starve
First Lady Michelle Obama wants you to eat your vegetables. “Too many
kids are consuming high-calorie food with low nutritional value,” Obama told
a group of students from Bancroft Elementary School in Washington. The kids
helped the first lady pick lettuce and peas that they had planted at the
White House Kitchen Garden in April. “We all have to eat vegetables every
single day, every day.” Michelle is the leader "behind"
the food police.
7/11/2011 - First Lady Michelle Obama forgot the lessons of her own
anti-obesity campaign. A Washington Post reporter said the first lady
indulged in a cheeseburger, french fries, chocolate shake and Diet Coke at
Shake Shack, a trendy hamburger spot that recently opened an outpost in
Washington's Dupont Circle. Based on nutritional information on the
restaurant's website, the meal added up to a bloating 1,556 calories.
11/29-2011
Michelle Obama was spotted at Co Co. Sala in DC dining with friends. Menu featured
an edible chocolate sculpture and house-made artisanal chocolates.
Michelle's favorite savory is Chef Tiptur's Moroccan Swordfish Sliders with
chermoula marinade, fennel salad, aged pecorino and hazelnut coffee
dressing.
Obama's Food Police May Eyeball Your Kitchen to control breakfast
cereals, snack foods, candy, dairy products, baked goods, carbonated
beverages, fruit juice and non-carbonated beverages, prepared foods and
meals, frozen and chilled desserts.
 7/2011
Mc Donald's and other fast food chains were under Obama scrutiny and a media
campaign by Michelle called "Let's Move" Happy Meals were singled out . Mc
Donald's agreed to automatically include a small serving of fresh produce
and a smaller portion of French fries in their Happy Meals. Mrs. Obama's
response was tepid; she adopted a wait-and-see attitude, saying she "looks
forward" to the company's "efforts in the years to come."
12/1/2011 - The Happy Meal can no longer come with a free toy in San
Francisco. After the ordinance was passed, city staff took over
generating nutritional standards for fast-food meals that include a free
toy, starting on Dec. 1, 2011. that includes any meal over 600 calories that
didn't include fruits and vegetables. McDonald's devised a solution. The
toy is no longer free. It costs 10 cents. National talk show host Roger
Hedgecock says, "San Francisco politicians are perfect practitioners of the
Obama style of progressive politics of noble rhetoric premised on lack of
personal responsibility backed up by transparently unworkable solutions.
Tony the Tiger, some NASCAR drivers and cookie-selling Girl Scouts will be
out of a job unless grocery manufacturers agree to reinvent a vast array of
their products to satisfy the Obama administration’s food police. Either
retool the recipes to contain certain levels of sugar, sodium and fats, or
no more advertising and marketing to tots and teenagers, say several federal
regulatory agencies. The same goes for restaurants.
 It’s not just the usual suspected foods that are being targeted, such a thin
mint cookies sold by scouts or M&Ms and Snickers, which sponsor cars in the
Sprint Cup, but pretty much everything on a restaurant menu.
Although
the intent of the guidelines is to combat childhood obesity, foods that are
low in calories, fat, and some considered healthy foods, are also targets,
including hot breakfast cereals such as oatmeal, pretzels, popcorn, nuts,
yogurt, wheat bread, bagels, diet drinks, fruit juice, tea, bottled water,
milk and sherbet.
Food industries are in an uproar over the proposal written by the Federal
Trade Commission, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Food and Drug
Administration and the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
“The most disturbing aspect of this interagency working group is, after it
imposes multibillions of dollars in restrictions on the food industry, there
is no evidence of any impact on the scourge of childhood obesity,” said Dan
Jaffe, executive vice president of the Association of National Advertisers.
 The “Interagency Working Group on Food Marketed to Children, Preliminary
Proposed Nutrition Principles to Guide Industry Self-Regulation Efforts”
says it is voluntary, but industry officials say the intent is clear: Do it,
or else.
“When
regulators strongly suggest a course of action, it’s treated as a rule, not
a suggestion,” said Scott Faber, vice president of federal affairs for the
Grocery Manufacturers Association. “Industry tends to heed these suggestions
from our regulators, and this administration has made it clear they are
willing to regulate if we don’t implement their proposal.”
It’s not just the food industry that will be impacted. Hundreds of
television shows that depend on the advertising revenue, such as the
Nickelodeon Channel, ESPN, and programs including "American Idol" will be
affected, critics of the proposal say - at a cost of $5.8 trillion in
marketing expenditures that support up to 20 million American jobs.
If the food is not reformulated, no more ads or promotions on TV, radio, in
print, on websites, as well as other digital advertising such as e-mail and
text messaging, packaging, and point-of-purchase displays and other in-store
marketing tools; product placement in movies, videos, video games, contests,
sweepstakes, character licensing and toy branding; sponsorship of events
including sport teams and individual athletes; and, philanthropic activity
tied to branding opportunities. That includes softball teams that are sponsored by food companies and school
reading programs sponsored by restaurants.
 “The Interagency working group recommends that the food industry, through
voluntary self-regulatory efforts, make significant improvements in the
nutritional quality of foods marketed to children and adolescents ages 2 to
17 years,” the proposal says.
“By
the year 2016, all food products within the categories most heavily marketed
directly to children should meet two basic nutrition principles. Such foods
should be formulated to … make a meaningful contribution to a healthful diet
and minimize the content of nutrients that could have a negative impact on
health and weight. ”The foods most heavily marketed directly to children and adolescents fall
into 10 categories: “breakfast cereals, snack foods, candy, dairy products,
baked goods, carbonated beverages, fruit juice and non-carbonated beverages,
prepared foods and meals, frozen and chilled desserts, restaurant
foods and of course hot dogs”
 Beth Johnson, a dietician for Food Directions in Maryland, said many of the
foods targeted in this proposal are the same foods approved by the federal
government for the WIC nutrition program for women, infants and children.
“This doesn’t make any sense whatsoever,” Johnson said. “It’s not going to
do anything to help with obesity. These are decisions I want to make for my
kids. These should not be government decisions.”
Audrey Hudson, an award-winning investigative journalist, is a Congressional
Correspondent for HUMAN EVENTS.
Obama's Food Police in Staggering Crackdown on Market to Kids by Audrey
Hudson 06/21/2011
http://www.humanevents.com
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