I understand it to be the former, hence my line of questioning.
But it could go the other way just as easy.
Michelle Obama's crusade.
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But it could go the other way just as easy.
For anyone curious about the plan, it can be found here.
I encourage anyone wanting a really good idea of what the program is and isn't about to go take a read. This program is a program of additions from what I can read, not subtractions. It doesn't talk about banning or restricting anything, but rather, adding choices and accessibility. Personally, I love that approach. Bans, and punitive measures, rarely work when it comes to dietary issues.
As for what you said YukonJack about how parents should feed kids, not schools.... I agree to a degree. The idea of kids eating school food is kind of foreign to most Albertans I know. Our kids take bag lunches with the exception of a program which, every one to two months, gives us the option of buying into a special perogy lunch, a pizza lunch, a sub lunch, etc. But, knowing what my kids tell me of the lunches their friends bring, few get the sort of lunch my kids get. Today they took soup, yogurt, an apple, and a carrot. The day before, a chicken sandwich, cheese, orange, and a yogurt. Most of their friends get McD's brought in once a week, and live off foods like 'Lunchables', and 'Dunkaroos', and Hygaard subs. Education, laziness, I don't know what the main culprit is, but some people obviously would be better off having their kids eating in a nutritionally balanced cafeteria at school.
I encourage anyone wanting a really good idea of what the program is and isn't about to go take a read. This program is a program of additions from what I can read, not subtractions. It doesn't talk about banning or restricting anything, but rather, adding choices and accessibility. Personally, I love that approach. Bans, and punitive measures, rarely work when it comes to dietary issues.
As for what you said YukonJack about how parents should feed kids, not schools.... I agree to a degree. The idea of kids eating school food is kind of foreign to most Albertans I know. Our kids take bag lunches with the exception of a program which, every one to two months, gives us the option of buying into a special perogy lunch, a pizza lunch, a sub lunch, etc. But, knowing what my kids tell me of the lunches their friends bring, few get the sort of lunch my kids get. Today they took soup, yogurt, an apple, and a carrot. The day before, a chicken sandwich, cheese, orange, and a yogurt. Most of their friends get McD's brought in once a week, and live off foods like 'Lunchables', and 'Dunkaroos', and Hygaard subs. Education, laziness, I don't know what the main culprit is, but some people obviously would be better off having their kids eating in a nutritionally balanced cafeteria at school.
karrie, even in my war-torn and impoverished old country nobody expected the school to feed me or any of my class mates, when I was a kid. Neither did anyone expected to get a free ride on a school bus. I walked through snow, wind, rain carried a bag luch, which was usually just some home-made jam spread between two slices of dark rye bread. It always tide me over until the nutritious dinner at home, after school. We also had two one hour Phys-Ed classes each week. There was not a fat kid to be seen anywhere.
I don't control the way the US has set up their school system, nor the way they expect it to run. Given the way the system runs now according to the wishes of those paying for it (the taxpayers), I see no reason why Michelle Obama's attempts to change it for the better shouldn't be embraced.
Thunder thighs? Compared to whom? Some anorexic actress or model? She appears normal weight to me. I certainly would not complain if she was my wife.
Come on. Laura Bush couldn't even get her husband to read.
Come on. Laura Bush couldn't even get her husband to read.
Thats because his IQ isn't high enough.http://forums.canadiancontent.net/images/icons/icon3.gif
Sometimes trying to help is beating your head against the wall.
Thats because his IQ isn't high enough.http://forums.canadiancontent.net/images/icons/icon3.gif
Sometimes trying to help is beating your head against the wall.
"Was that the physical fitness classes ... or the post-war food shortages?"
lone wolf, that is totally immaterial and/or irrelevant.
The fact that the people of a poor country of only 10 million people could produce 10 Olympic gold medals (third only to England and U.S. in 1948) or 16 Olympic Gold medals, third only to the Soviet Union and the United States in 1952) and similar, but not quite as spectacular achievements in subsequent Olympic Games, proves that the road to physical fitness does not lie, nor is ever hope to be achieved by some phony program by an obese woman.
lone wolf, that is totally immaterial and/or irrelevant.
The fact that the people of a poor country of only 10 million people could produce 10 Olympic gold medals (third only to England and U.S. in 1948) or 16 Olympic Gold medals, third only to the Soviet Union and the United States in 1952) and similar, but not quite as spectacular achievements in subsequent Olympic Games, proves that the road to physical fitness does not lie, nor is ever hope to be achieved by some phony program by an obese woman.
In other words - it was totally legitimate and wrecked your apple-orange comparison.
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Is it Obama you don't like ... or are you just a hate everybody sort of ... whatever it is you are?
lone wolf, I don't dislike Obama any more than you ever disliked (Hell, HATED G.W. Bush).
I, however hate concepts. Such as hypocrisy, amply displayed by Mrs. Obama, (literally and figuratively) and socialism, that her husband is Hell-bent on imposing on America by "fundamentally transforming" it (his own words).
I, however hate concepts. Such as hypocrisy, amply displayed by Mrs. Obama, (literally and figuratively) and socialism, that her husband is Hell-bent on imposing on America by "fundamentally transforming" it (his own words).
Big deal. This is Canada. I just fail to see how Michelle Obama has anything to do with your physically fit kids in a war-torn school. That isn't the image portrayed by the several folk I know - and knew - who were kids in post-war Holland, France or Belgium.
It might do you some good to look in a mirror before you cast your judgments. That's where I keep confusing you with your online nemesis.
Yet here actions say otherwise Jack.
I'd like you to present one picture showing her as grossly obese.
Perhaps before you form an opinion you should dig a little deeper instead of blurting out the first thing that pops into your tiny biased mind.:roll:
Once again you have proven nothing at all about hypocrisy.
Congratulations though, you have done a fine job of trolling in the modern sense.
I doubt even I could have done such a good job.:lol:
Eat at Obama's favorite Hawaii restaurants - USATODAY.com
Would she recommend the items found in their favourite restaurants of the Obama's, to kids if she is genuinely concerned about the kids health?
And of course, would she pay for them?
Obviously, she taught George W. to write a book that outsells Clinton's. Or Obama's, for that matter.
Comparing first ladies, are we? Does not one have to be a LADY before claiming to be a FIRST LADY?
A real American Lady would be proud to be American, not just the first time after her husband became the nominee for the Presidency.
Also, a real lady would cut down on her food intake, just to show good example.
Would she recommend the items found in their favourite restaurants of the Obama's, to kids if she is genuinely concerned about the kids health?
And of course, would she pay for them?
Obviously, she taught George W. to write a book that outsells Clinton's. Or Obama's, for that matter.
Comparing first ladies, are we? Does not one have to be a LADY before claiming to be a FIRST LADY?
A real American Lady would be proud to be American, not just the first time after her husband became the nominee for the Presidency.
Also, a real lady would cut down on her food intake, just to show good example.