(PCRM) Doctors to Obama: Stop eating unhealthy foods at photo ops

[alp227]

A group of doctors want President Obama to cut out the cheeseburgers and hot dogs.

The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, a Washington-based group, plans to file a petition Thursday calling for "an executive order banning staged official photo ops that depict the president, the first family, the vice president, and members of the president's cabinet with unhealthful foods including processed meats that can cause cancer and obesity."

Dr. Susan Levin, the group's director of nutrition education, said, "the White House would never set up a photo op of a president with a cigarette, so why show him eating foods that cause cancer?

"Hot dogs, hamburgers, and other unhealthful foods kill more Americans each year than tobacco, and they cost taxpayers billions of dollars in health care," Levin said. "The president can eat what he likes in private, but at orchestrated public events, our leaders are role models."

Don't count on anything happening; the president loves his occasional burger runs.

full: http://content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2012/05/doctors-group-to-obama-stop-eating-burgers/1

Elizabeth Kucinich is an executive at PCRM as well. And if Mrs. Obama is going to lead a "Let's Move" effort to advocate healthier eating (right wing trolls reading this instead see "effort to ban fries and burgers&quot shouldn't she and the President set an example in photo ops? (I won't oppose the Obamas eating junk food at special occasions as they aren't advocating abstinence from junk food, unlike those crazy evangelicals advocating abstinence from premarital sex.)

[Mojorabbit]

1. good grief nt

[southernyankeebelle]

2. Give the guy a break. Your on the trail and a owner is going to offer you his speciality and

you say no. What do you think will happen? Look what happen at Mittens when he insulted a bakery owner cookies.

[Stargazer09]

5. I agree

When visiting someone's home, good manners dictates that you accept what you are offered, within reason. If that's a hot dog or hamburger, so be it.

Besides, moderation is the key to a good diet.

[southernyankeebelle]

14. Your talking to the wrong person about moderation. All I have to do is look at food

and gain weight. It is sickening. I have control everywhere in my life except food. I have been on all kinds of diets. Now am to damn old. I am going to enjoy the time left in my life.

[Odin2005]

21. I have the same problem!

NOT FUN!!!

[southernyankeebelle]

30. No it isn't. But we can laugh or cry right? Sometimes I think we just try to hard. I was so

damn tired of people telling me "Your so beautiful if you only lose weight". Finally I got to the point and fired back. I am beautiful the way god made me. That shuts them up. But when someone is being mean and starts calling me names I come back with I can loose weight but there isn't any hope for you because your thinner but your ugly to the bone and you can't do anything about that. That usually shuts them up.

[Stargazer09]

24. I didn't mean to be hurtful

I probably should have used another word instead of moderation. I wasn't talking about quantity of food. I meant that it's okay to have hamburgers and hot dogs when foods that are considered to be unhealthy are not the sole source of nutrition.

[southernyankeebelle]

29. Oh I didn't take offense at all. I was being funny. I was making fun of myself. You didn't say

anything wrong. Believe me if I felt hurt I would of said it outright. Moderation isn't a dirty word. I have a hate/love relationship with food. So don't get upset.

[Stargazer09]

31. It's hard to tell here

I figured it would be better to clarify my post than risk hurting your feelings.

[southernyankeebelle]

32. Sometimes it is hard to tell a person's tone. I didn't take offense.

[LadyHawkAZ]

18. ^this

Exactly.

[madaboutharry]

3. They make a good point.

I can also hear the shrill shrieks of the right wing chorus "He isn't one of us, he won't eat American food!"

[Tx4obama]

4. Hot dogs and apple pie are AMERICAN. Keep on eating 'em Mr. President :) n/t

[boston bean]

6. This is ridiculous. No one should tell others that they can't have

A cheeseburger or hot dog. This is a bridge to far.

[alp227]

8. So what's your point? There shouldn't be nutritional guideline?

The PCRM isn't trying to send Obama to jail for eating fatty foods. It's just that they're calling on the president to set an example for healthy eating. What you're saying sounds like the Christians who go ballistic whenever they hear a non-religious POV or Muslims who see a cartoon of Muhammad or right-wingers who persistently misinterpret banning toys from Happy Meals as banning Happy Meals wholesale. It's scary when "food police" talking points seep into DU.

[boston bean]

11. LOL. Nt

[southernyankeebelle]

16. I can hear the republicans now. Obama doesn't like american food. No he is doing the right thing.

Eat Mr President. Your alittle on the skinny side anyway.

[Luminous Animal]

26. There is plenty of American food that isn't crap

[southernyankeebelle]

28. However you don't tell a store owner sorry I can't eat that. That is insulting.

[DJ13]

7. 3 words

[postulater]

9. I saw him drinking Guinness. That's health food.

[woo me with science]

10. Oh for pete's sake. nt

[jp11]

12. Nothing would be better than public events where the president pushes back the offered

hotdog/hamburger/slice of pizza/ice cream/etc and whips out his box lunch.

Conservatives would love it, "the president too good for american food", "earlier today the president visited a local ice cream shop and wouldn't eat any of their products saying it was all too full of sugar, gee thanks Mr. President that outta help their sales".

[treestar]

13. I can appreciate that hamburgers are fattening

But they don't Kill. Maybe don't each too much. But to claim that hot dogs and hamburgers "kill" is going OTT. And what do you have on the Fourth of July?

[laundry_queen]

17. Hot dogs might.

nitrites have been linked to a 30% increase in colon and pancreatic cancer.

Hamburgers....not so much.

[spanone]

15. what do they have to say about chris christie?

[Canuckistanian]

19. Everyone knows he only eats arugula in private.

And only drinks pure spring water.

So a few cheeseburgers aren't going to hurt.

[Odin2005]

20. Ugh, Food Nazis!

[Union Scribe]

22. Nagging is not healthful

STFU, PCRM.

[SoCalDem]

23. They should be applying pressure on congress to eliminate the corn/sugar subsidies..for starters

[jmowreader]

25. PCRM is a vegan advocacy group

Kinda like PETA without the exhibitionism.

[pa28]

27. If Obama was overweight it might be a different story.

You can exercise and eat right and still enjoy a cheese burger once in a while. That's the role model part.