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She was right about the fat white kids: Retired Military Leaders Fret Kids Will Be 'Too Fat To Fight' - NBC News
See here:
Why obesity is a national security threat - CNN.com
"Anyway, Michelle Obama's on this big obesity kick, right? Gotta eat healthy stuff, gotta eat the garbage that she grows in the garden, nothing but fruits and vegetables. ... Michelle Obama wants to spend $400 million to combat food deserts. She's all upset that the only food available to poor urban people are convenience stores, the 7-Elevens. ... So she's complaining about food deserts, and Michelle Obama wants to punish Big Food and Big Retail for not putting quality food stores in poor neighborhoods, right? And that's why there's an obesity epidemic, right?"
But the first lady is right to worry. A White House vegetable garden is only the very beginning of a policy solution, but the first lady has grasped an urgent national problem.
Conservatives Split Over Opposition to Michelle Obama's Obesity Drive - The Wire
First Lady Michelle Obama's push against child obesity, which mostly calls for reforming school lunch programs, is either nanny state big government "run amok," as Sarah Palin put it, or, as some conservatives concede, a relatively unoffensive effort to make kids healthier. The issue has exposed a slight but interesting divide in the conservative commentariat, which cannot seem to agree on whether they should let the first lady's effort slide or oppose it with all their might. The split reveals a difference of opinion on just how "laissez faire" school lunchrooms should be as well as the limits of anti-Obama opposition just for opposition's sake.
Last I looked, the purpose of schools was to educate kids, not to feed them.
Maybe it's just a coincidence that the more schools spend on feeding kids, the more the kids become obese.
since the wage gap is widening, people have less income, including the elderly & poor, to spend on necessities but you knew that already didn't you batboi?