Oh, the First Lady is Gonna Love This!
We all know the First Lady is big on “nutrition”. She’s been a driving force behind many new Federal policies regarding food choices, particularly in schools.
Well, the FLOTUS isn’t gonna like the results of a recent study done by the Rand Corporation.
It seems that out in the in La-La land – AKA Los Angeles, in the Left Coast’s Granola State – they got ahead of the FLOTUS. LA passed zoning a zoning ordinance in 2008 which banned new fast-food outlets and the expansion of existing ones (those located in strip malls were an exception) in a 32 square mile section of South LA.
This part of LA had historically had high obesity rates. The thought was that limiting people’s freedom (via making it harder to choose to eat fast food) would improve that “public health problem”.
The Rand Corporation recently studied the effect of that law. Here’s what they found:
“It had no meaningful effect,” Rand senior economist Roland Sturm said. “There’s no evidence that diets have improved more in South LA. Obesity and overweight rates have not fallen.”
Gee – people simply continued doing what they wanted to do, in spite of a well-intended but ineffectual law to the contrary. Who’d have ever expected that people would continue to, you know, exercise that little thing called “freedom of choice” in their daily lives?
Changing human behavior of this type can’t generally be done simply by decree. You first have to convince people to change their attitudes and habits.
Perhaps one day our leftist “brethren” will figure that out.
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But it caused a “pause” in Global Warming Climate Change so it can’t be all that bad, right?
I think I’ll eat me some FRIED CHICKEN!
Anna 1,
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Anna 2,
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Anna three,
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I think that covers it.
/LOL.
I was only following orders!
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2014/11/michelle_obama_grants_black_people_permission_to_eat_fried_chicken_emifem_they_vote_today.html
God…this is too funny !!!!
In the words of that heroic and quotable man, Homer Simpson: “mmmmm, donuts.”
Lars ain’t gonna like this.
Hondo: you’re on a roll while the MMFIC is away 🙂
sj,
You made me google “MMFIC”.
/learn something new every day, HMFIC
They are interchangeable. 🙂
Now if only we applied this perspective to drugs…you know making them illegal so people wouldn’t take them…
Indeed behavior is only changed through slow, arduous persuasion as Hondo indicates.
Think cigarette smoking. I am old enough to remember people smoking everywhere….hell when I came out of the military and took a job in a print shop the pressman were smoking around petroleum based ink products and alcohol as though it were of no consequence…
My oldest grandson, who is 13, considers smoking as socially acceptable as taking a dump in someone’s living room…he’s not an ass about it but he can’t understand why anyone would do it. We need 50 years of education to get folks thinking differently about drugs and being a lard ass…even then it won’t be 100% but it will be better.
Everybody believed Morgan Spurlock’s cute little “Supersize Me” movie. The problem is that other people who–unlike Spurlock–were actual, y’know, doctors and scientists and shit, were UNABLE to replicate his results when they tried his experiment using actual, y’know, scientific procedure. According to Internet sources, Spurlock will start throwing punches if you mention that to him.
Fast food is not the healthiest thing to eat. In other news, the sky is blue and water is wet. But fast food doesn’t make you fat. Overeating and not excercising makes you fat. The extent of fatness and speed of gain will depend on your metabolism. But there’s plenty of lardass vegetarians out there, and some people eat greaseburgers every day and still run marathons without breaking a sweat. Tofu can make you just as fat as curly fries if you eat too much and don’t get off the couch.
That’s the problem for the people targeted by the zoning law. Whatever they eat, they eat too much of it. Their lifestyle is sedentary. They ingest many more calories than they burn. That’s why they’re fat, not because there was a Burger King within 2 miles.
Easy there with the not moving stuff, next thing you know they’ll wanna ban cars so we all have to walk just so the chubbers get some mandatory walking time.
Remember the all-potato diet, by Cris Voight, the head of the Washington State Potato Commission?
http://www.seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2013545173_potatoguy29m.html
and this:
http://www.foxnews.com/health/2010/11/30/man-sheds-pounds-potato-diet/
One of the reasons potatoes are so good for you is that as root vegetables, they absorb minerals from the ground they grow in, as do carrots and other root veggies. Small turnips added to beef stew or soup are so spicy they eliminate the need for added salt.
Ex-PH2…Thank you for the reference. Also I did not know that about turnips. I grew up HATING the turnip greens I was FORCED to eat and have never since but the turnip itself was where, even as a kid, I said NO. So, since heart surgery when I “magically lost” my lifelong craving for lots of salt on everything, I use Mrs. Dash and other things but I will try adding turnips to the next stew or roast beef.
Make sure they’re the small turnips, Sparks, no bigger than 2 to 3 inches in diameter. The smaller they are, the more flavor they have, like radishes.
Yeah, I read the results of that study. Scientists as well as nutritionists stated emphatically that even if the guy was basically sedentary, the weight gain he claimed was impossible at the caloric level he was taking in.
Of course, folks like him (and other leftists) absolutely meltdown when facts get in the way of their agenda.
But back to the deal at hand, I eat at McDonalds or another such place 2-3 times a week, mostly before I go grocery shopping. The $5 or less I spend there is more than offset by the savings I get by not shopping while hungry. 🙂
I had a series of operations, the result of which was that between the drugs I had to take and the lack of exercise, saw my weight go up to 290. I’m down to 217, but it’s taken a while because I still can’t walk as well as I’d like to, but we’re getting there. My goal is to reach 180 by the fall. It’s doable, but like anything worthwhile, it takes commitment and mental toughness.
You’re doing well, brother.
Spurlock is a shameless self promoter who is no better than Michael Moore when it comes to things like honesty and facts.
Gee whiz, why don’t they pass a law requiring fatties to exercise? Time for a double bacon cheeseburger!
Don’t give the FLOTUS any ideas. Could end up being Executive Order time. (smile)
A Proud Infidel®™…Time for a double bacon cheeseburger AND time to invest in gyms with public stock, if the FLOTUS heard you.
They could call it “Lardo’s Law”….
Personally, I think “Lard@$$ law” would fit better. But I’d be opposed to such a law whatever it’s called.
Freedom includes the freedom to choose to do stupid stuff.
Universal mandatory annual PT tests! WOOHOO!
I refuse to listen to any of this crap any more. They can do all the studies they want to. What it boils down to is the human factor, not the food factor.
Let’s remember that at one time, potatoes were targeted as the worst, most useless food on the planet. Nothing but empty calories, right?
Well, per the research done by people who like potatoes and think they’re G-R-R-EAT to eat, they are a very good source of vitamin C. In fact, there are many food cnoices previously considered to be empty calories that contain nutrients like B complex vitamins (beef). Eggs were once considered death on a plate, because the yolk has a lot of cholesterol. In my basic Anatomy & Physiology class in college, we discovered that your blood cholesterol is created out of ALL the food you eat by your LIVER. Yes, that very same liver you abuse by consuming mass quantities of alcohol.
Seriously, if I paid attention to all the doom and gloom crap coming out of the cramped offices of the experts, who are afraid of their own body hair, I’d be a nervous wreck.
The ONLY thing that is bad for you is excess calories and not burning off what you do consume. That’s it in a nutshell.
You eat to live. You don’t live to eat.
Frankly, your genes are more at fault than your food intake.
I am tired of these control freaks. What does it take to make them go away? Can I throw a lars at them? That would bore them to death.
I’m going to go make cookies now, with butter, brown sugar, chocolate chips and flour. And the food police can go pound sand up their butts.
Exactly. You do yourself more harm by worrying about what you eat, than you do by going ahead and enjoying something you were meant to enjoy: eating! 😉
Everything in moderation; including moderation, is the key.
When oblowme was elected, I posited that we were doomed….
I consider my postulation to be correct…
DOOMED I say DOOMED !!!!!
When that study (about the potatoes) was released, I sent it to almost everybody I knew. I know so many people who had stopped eating potatoes ‘because they’re not healthy’ and who have developed all kinds of interesting health problems, likely due to a lack or deficiency of trace minerals and other micronutrients!
There’s some side issues around that, too – the WIC program for a long time had potatoes on the ‘verboten’ list. WIC credit could not be used to buy potatoes, and as a result of this study, potatoes were added back to the ‘allowed’ list. The White House (read: FLOTUS) was extremely unhappy about that and wanted them to take potatoes back off the list, on the grounds that people would be too likely to make poor choices as to how the potatoes are prepared. Ie, they would fry them in butter or oil, smother them in cheese or sour cream, etc.
The doctors and nutritionists and scientists at WIC told the White House that there was no greater risk of people in the program doing this with potatoes than with any other vegetable, and that if the White House wanted to apply that criteria as a restricting factor, it was unclear what food items would actually pass muster to remain on the approved list.
And because I feel the need to be all academically sound, here are a couple of news articles about it:
http://www.capitalpress.com/Nation_World/Nation/20150130/wic-win-based-on-nutrition-potato-council-ceo-says
http://www.capitalpress.com/Nation_World/Nation/20150203/panel-reverses-says-white-potatoes-ok-for-wic-recipients
I make mine with two teaspoons of lemon juice as well. The acidity makes the chocolate sweeter.
Yay, pink slime beef, chicken, and pork fake food for everyone!
Hold the special sauce on my Big Mac, please. And add a tomato slice. (smile)
Believe me, this IS the pot calling the kettle black, but I get a kick outa the folks who super size everything and then order the diet Coke. 😉
OC
I do that; and I get strange looks from the servers. I like diet colas; as some folks like tofu flavored air snacks.
Same here. I find regular Coke tastes cloyingly sweet any more.
For those fortunate enough to find it, there’s the Coke from Mexico. I prefer its taste to that of the domestic variety. It also pairs well with bourbon.
I almost quit drinking Diet Coke when they switched from saccharine to aspartame because it tasted too sweet to me. Since I learned that artificial sweeteners are even worse for you than sugar, I quit drinking diet sodas. In fact, the only time I drink any soda at all is when I go out to eat and can’t get lemonade.
I do it too … and I usually say something like, “Don’t laugh,” as I order the Diet Coke with my double quarter-pounder with cheese.
Speaking of which … if it’s a double quarter-pounder, why don’t they just call it a half-pounder and be done with it?
Such a moniker would imply a single patty weighing a half pound.
Totalitarians simply need to be curb stomped.
Doing so is actually a basic duty of citizens in a republic.
That we have for so long refused to do our duty is why we’re at where we’re at.
Feeling a little peckish, Grimmy?
Well, since I’m not allowed to feast on the flesh and bones of the enemy, I’m making due with peanut butter on celery sticks.
Poor substitute.
I don’t see whats wrong with the First Lady wanting to address the obesity problem. No one else seems too concerned about it. And there definitely is an obesity problem, which is neither good for the fatties nor for society as a whole.
Addressing the problem is fine. It’s forcing her version of the “correct solution” on others via influencing changes to Federal regulations that bugs the hell out of me.
Freedom includes the freedom to choose to do stupid stuff.
Look, you can argue that every single thing we do affects someone else, one way or another and more likely than not has a cost associated with it. So, that “good for society” angle I don’t buy at all. That leaves the part about obesity, fathood, or what ever one wants to term it, not being good for the person carrying the extra poundage. Well, who the hell’s business is it of yours or mine if someone is fat, skinny, or has washboard abs? This sort of thing pisses me off. Be fat. Be skinny. Be weight and height proportional. It’s no damn business of the gov’t or M. Obama.
What’s wrong with it is that it was handed down to school districts as an edict: if you want money for school funding, toe the line on school meals for kids. That meant forcing a poorly thought out and poorly done macrobiotic diet down the throats of children who were faced with unappetizing stuff in their lunch trays. By unappetizing, I mean a spoonful of black beans and nothing else to go with it except maybe an apple or a banana. That is not a meal. It is forced starvation. Anyone who knows anything at all about nutrition knows that beans alone do not form a complete protein. In order to have a complete protein, you have to add rice to it. Red beans and rice are a very popular dish, and delicious when seasoned properly. That was NOT how school meals were done. In addition, any nutritionist will also tell you that a macrobiotic diet is lacking in needed nutrients for growing children and no child should be expected even to subsist on it. In Asia countries, where the diet staple is rice, vegetables are used in large quantities for meals but those meals also include animal protein, which is what growing children need. In addition, there were and still are reports of lunches carried to school – brown bagging – by children, and when they were inspected by the food police, they were deemed incorrect and thrown out. That meant those children had no lunch, and nothing to eat during the entire school day. That’s what it meant, moody. No obedience = no funding, and no you can’t have the lunch your mom fixed for you because we don’t approve of your mom’s choices. This is not how children were treated when I was in grade school through high school. WE had balanced meals every day. This idiotic business was not about addressing the obesity problem You do that by getting kids out of the schoolhouse for recess or into the gym for PE, and at home, they should be playing, but instead, they are sitting in front… Read more »
What’s even more wrong with it is that she was not elected or appointed to any public office, and therefore, is in violation of Article I, Section 1, of the Constitution of the United States of America, and should be arrested and prosecuted for a criminal felony.
Hell, if Mooochelle wants everybody to diet/thin down/not be obese anymore, they should start issuing C-Rations again instead of welfare and food stamps.
Think how fast we could clear out the welfare rolls if they did that.
I am trying hard to think of something nice to say about C-Rations and I am failing.
Wait, I thought of two things:
1. The gum was good.
2. I always had an ashtray.
Most of the guys didn’t like straight cigarettes, so I always got the Pall-Malls and Luckys.
OC
Green Box Luckys?
Those were the best. Really brought out the generational tie between you and your WWII father/uncles.
Yes, I know that Luckys changed from a dark green pack to the white pack in 1942.
It was kind of a joke, but sometimes some of the older C-Rats tasted about that old to have had green pack Luckys in them.
I was always a Chesterfields man, myself.
Dennis – not chevy….Being from the south I always ate well. Why? Because I loved those Ham & Motherfuckers! I could trade ANYTHING for two or even three of those. A four smoke pack of Marlboros or Pall-Malls for a relaxing few puffs afterwards while I dropped a good healthy deuce and I was good to ruck up and move out. Memories.
Language apologies to the ladies in the room.
I remember the supposed “ham and eggs”…I remember thinking how disgusting they were until I was in the woods for a few weeks and how after that amount of time I couldn’t wait to open those ham and eggs and suck the congealed fat off the top to get to that yummy pink paste with the whitish egg or mold substance….
They always tasted better the longer you were away from real food…
Veritas Omnia Vincit…”They always tasted better the longer you were away from real food…” Ain’t it just the damned truth!
I didn’t make it here (to earth) in time to try C-Rations, but I have tried the MREs. I bought a case of them for emergency rations, and I’m not really impressed with them. There are other emergency rations out there that I like better, that aren’t as heavy, and that don’t take up so much room.
Spam now comes in a low-sodium version. Slice, dice, cook with potatoes and onions, a little coarse cracked black pepper or some Mrs. Dash.
Ex-PH2…Sounds great! I get to have my Spam again!
Rub the slices with a little bit of sauce, blacken them on a gorilla, it makes a good sandwich, especially with some BACON!! 😀
…blacken them on a GRILL, stupid fat fingers and auto-spell!! 👿
thanks for the clarification I didn’t think I actually wanted to know how you blackened something on a gorilla…(hehe)
3) P-38s
4) Ranger pudding from cocoa
5) Getting to watch some poor bastard trying to clean beanie-weenies off a hot generator manifold when he left ’em on there a tad too long
Ahh yes the P-38 both a can opener and a fine aircraft from WW2 you’ve got to love the Army labeling system.
Part of the legend behind a P-38/John Wayne is that it took 38 cuts to open a C-Ration can and it was “fast as lightning”.
I still carry my original issue P-38 on my key ring.
“I still carry my original issue P-38 on my key ring.” Then we’re in the same old club brother.
Same here. TSA wanted to take it away once “because it was pointed” – I went back to the counter, and checked my carry-on (with basic training P38 I’ve carried for almost 40 years) inside.
Also, a pistol!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walther_P38
They beat the hell out of going hungry.
1 word
Hamandlimabeans
And don’t forget thr C-Rats cookbook!
Everything is better with Tabasco!
Hey Claw, I have been meaning to ask you if you guys had a good get-together last weekend. Drink any Fresca? I hope 3/17 is doing okay… I know others here do as well.
^^^This is indeed true^^^
Hope it’s good now.
Oh,Yea, 3/17 and I had a real good time. He got here about 1245 hrs on Saturday and left here for return to home station at 0645 hrs Monday morning.
Nope, no Fresca consumption over the weekend. We did drink some Mike’s Hard Limeade though.
I tried a couple of times to call him on Tues/Wed to make sure he had made it home OK, but his voice mail thingy said it was full and not accepting any new messages. But I assume he made it back OK.
Between myself and my brother and sister-in-law we had plenty to talk about during the time we spent together. Actually he told me that the sleep he got here at Stately Wayne Manor (if you use the maternal surname to my family) was the best rest he had gotten since his wife passed.
Hopefully he’ll show up here pretty soon and do some commenting and let us know how he’s doing.
CLAW131…Glad to hear 3/17 is better. I’m sure I can say on behalf of all of us here, thank you and your family so much, for your hospitality and friendship to him.
I know I’ve mentioned this here before, but Claw saying something about C-Rations reminded me of it …
Back in 1974 or 75, I was attending an Army JROTC field exercise in some woods not far from Fort Benning. I was a JROTC cadet at the time. During the course of the fun and frolic, they brought out some C-Rations from Benning to feed the starving cadets. I opened the box given me and read the flap – it was packaged in 1943.
1943. Thirty-two years before I was going to eat what was in those cans, they were canned.
As I recall, it wasn’t all that bad. I certainly didn’t die from eating it.
Full disclosure – the box didn’t have the cigarettes in it; someone had filched them before we got the C-Rations.
In the late Summer and early Autumn of 1967, I was working on the Sundance Mountain-Trapper’s Peak forest fire, as a clerk in the Supply Tent located at the Base Camp, which was situated in the Bonner’s Ferry, Idaho Lion’s Club Park, and later, at the Sandpoint, Idaho Forest Ranger Station.
In addition to being served grilled steaks and ice cream at every meal, we were also issued C-Rations dating from the Second World War.
We were warned to throw away any cans that were swollen, due to botulism having been detected.
So, BEFORE I became a soldier in the United States Army, I had my first taste of C-Rations while working on that forest fire.
While working on that forest fire, I also had my first flight on an aircraft, sitting in the co-pilot’s seat of a United States Air Force UH-1 “Iroquois” helicopter hauling water from the base camp up to the spike camp on the mountain.
Field rations around the world. None of them include the handkerchief needed to wipe away the tears after eating them for three days in a row.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/food/article-2945604/Peanut-butter-ravioli-freeze-dried-curry-bubblegum-combat-rations-20-armies-world-revealed.html
Actually tissues were provided with the old freeze dried rats (LRRPs), but the reason for the tears was that the only thing known to be harder than an industrial diamond s a 30 day LRRP turd.
That’s why you saved a sheet or two out of the TP packet whenever possible . . . . (smile)
Hondo…TP in the field? That’s solid gold currency there!
See, I knew if I was to throw the subject of C-Rations into this thread, it would “Spice” things up.
Peaches and poundcake, Claw.
Yep, best dessert ever.
But apricots and or fruit cocktail with pound cake wasn’t too bad either.