First Lady Brings Nanny State to the Military

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First Lady Brings Nanny State to Military

Interesting point of view article. Not making any other comments now,

just sharing.

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Reminds me of this New York Post article

Lunch nazis on the attack

By JULIE GUNLOCK

Last Updated: 11:27 PM, February 15, 2012

Posted: 11:01 PM, February 15, 2012

A North Carolina preschooler this week got a taste of the brave new school-lunch

world.

As the 4-year-old entered the lunchroom, the state lunch inspector (!!) examined

her sack and found the contents to be in violation of US Department of

Agriculture nutrition guidelines. Herr Lunch Lady summarily threw the offending

meal — including a homemade turkey sandwich, banana, chips and apple juice —

into the trash; the girl was given a school-lunch meal consisting of . . .

chicken nuggets.

Ah, yes, a vast improvement over the poison her mother packed. This is a

perfect example of the Food Nazis’ victory over — not childhood obesity, but

parental say in what kids eat. Nor is it an isolated case. Lunch inspections

have been going on in Britain for years now, and the practice fits nicely with

the Obama administration’s goals.

Thanks to White House efforts, kids are now being served “healthy†school

lunches. Of course, no one in the administration is talking about the huge food

waste as kids trash the redesigned meals.Last week marked the two-year

anniversary of the Let’s Move Campaign. The Foodie-in-Chief, Obama,

has been busy touring the country detailing the campaign’s so-called successes

against our country’s epidemic of fat kids.

The administration can also claim victory for . . . ahem . . .“encouragingâ€

food manufacturers to lower the salt content in some of their products. An

industry representative with a gift for understatement suggested it might be

hard to comply with these regulations since it can be difficult to sell food

that doesn’t taste good. Ya think?

The country has a lot to look forward to this year when the Food and Drug

Administration announces a slew of regulations on food companies (covering

packaging and marketing as well as limiting sugar and salt content), which are

sure to boost food costs.

But perhaps the greatest “victory†that the White House can claim is to have

further damaged already tenuous parent-child relationships by making parents’

involvement in their children’s nutrition an even more remote occurrence.

The administration has been working to push parents from involvement in their

children’s eating habits, apparently because mom and dad can’t be trusted to

make the right decisions.

To assist the president’s Let’s Move campaign, Congress in 2010 passed a

bill that, among other things, set up automatic enrollment of low-income

children in the school-lunch program. Why pack a lunch for your kids if the

government’s more than willing to feed them for you? Heck, you don’t even

have to fill out the paperwork.

Now parents who dare to pack a brown bag anyway are on notice: The Lunch Lady is

watching.

It’s all packaged as anti-obesity efforts, but the McNuggets that replaced

that North Carolina girl’s meal tells us it’s really about control.

Parents need to be aware of what’s happening in our schools. We’re teaching

our children that government — not mom or dad — knows best.

Gunlock is a senior fellow at the Independent Women’s Forum. Adapted

from nationalreview.com.

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>Interesting point of view article.  Not making any other comments now, 

>just sharing.

>

>Jan  Patenaude, RD, CLT

>Director of Medical Nutrition

>Signet Diagnostic  Corp.

>Telecommuting Nationwide

> (Mountain Time)

>Fax: 

>DineRight4@...

>

>Certified LEAP Therapist and  specialist in food sensitivity for IBS,

>migraine, fibromyalgia and multiple  inflammatory conditions. Co-author of the

>Certified LEAP Therapist (CLT)  Training Course.

>

>Your email is important to me. If you send me an  important email, and I

>don't respond in 2 business days, PLEASE give me a call.  Some weeks, I get

>buried in email and I do not mean to ignore your  email!

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