The federal committee responsible for nutrition guidelines is calling for the adoption of “plant-based” diets, taxes on dessert, trained obesity “interventionists” at worksites, and electronic monitoring of how long Americans sit in front of the television.The Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee (DGAC) released its far-reaching 571-page report of recommendations to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Thursday, which detailed its plans to “transform the food system.”The report is open for public comment for 45 days, and will be used as the basis by the government agencies to develop the 2015 Dietary Guidelines for Americans. The guidelines are used as the basis for government food assistance programs, nutrition education efforts, and for making “decisions about national health objectives.”DGAC proposed a variety of solutions to address obesity, and its promotion of what it calls the “culture of health.”“The persistent high levels of overweight and obesity require urgent population- and individual-level strategies across multiple settings, including health care, communities, schools, worksites, and families,” they said.In response, DGAC called for diet and weight management interventions by “trained interventionists” in healthcare settings, community locations, and worksites.“Government at local, state, and national levels, the health care system, schools, worksites, community organizations, businesses, and the food industry all have critical roles in developing creative and effective solutions,” they said.DGAC also called for policy interventions to “reduce unhealthy options,” limit access to high calorie foods in public buildings, “limit the exposure” of advertisements for junk food, a soda tax, and taxing high sugar and salt items and dessert.
I want those tax dollars back, damn it - the ones that have been used to cook this s--- up. And I want this committee disbanded yet this afternoon.
H/T: Gay Patriot
Obesity kills! What does a joint do that a freedom hater like Ronnie would allow your property to be seized over it? Did you know that Nixon commissioned a study of marijuana which concluded in 1972 that "looking only at the effects on the individual, there, is little proven danger of physical or psychological harm from the experimental or intermittent use of the natural preparations of cannabis." Put that in your pipe and smoke it and then have a donut on me. Just say screw 'em and Do It Anyway! That's the way to keep your eatin' good. What are they gonna do, seize your property or jail you? Be a martyr for your cause. Millions of others had to. Stop griping and grow some cajones. Hold your head high and pop some popcorn in coconut oil and slip on some Mr. Smith Goes to Washington in the DVD.
ReplyDeleteEven mentioning marijuana policy, its history and present status, in response to a post about real encroachment on human liberty exhibits a breathtakingly astounding degree of immaturity and unseriousness.
ReplyDeleteI know you've been chomping at the bit for a moment when the question of whether or not soeone could get into official trouble for smoking weed was going to enter the top twenty most important policy issues facing America, but that time has not arrived.
ReplyDeleteOh so very sorry, it's just that it is everywhere in the news. Mr. Virtue, Bill Bennett is frightened enough to fan the fires of reefer madness with his new effort, "Going to Pot." Forbes is showing its immaturity by taking him to task in this month's issue. Do it anyway! Read more at http://www.forbes.com/sites/jacobsullum/2015/02/05/bill-bennetts-confused-and-confusing-defense-of-pot-prohibition/
ReplyDeleteI tried the legal (mature) relaxant but ended up cuffing my wife and crashing my car.
ReplyDeleteMeanwhile, the world's serious people are concerned with issues such as government's actual encroachment on actual liberty.
ReplyDeleteI can just see it now. Someday there will be tributes, much like today's venerations of heroes of the civil-rights movement, for the we-want-our-weed firebrands: "These are the brave men and women who put their livelihoods and indeed lives on the line for the noble and immutable right to fire up a doob."
Press about mj prohibition appears daily in the US and nobody is listening to freedom haters like you. I have smoked doob with many vets. You should know what you're talking about but you apparently don't.
ReplyDeleteI sure do. Whether marijuana is legal or not is of negligible importance.
ReplyDeleteYa think ya might go for just saying no to jail and other penalties for users who just said something like 'you don't know how it feels' to such stalwarts of freedom as Nixon and Reagan? How many times in your life have you felt or been threatened by a dobie smoker? Or was your fragile psyche once compromised by injudicious personal use?
ReplyDeleteYou have your opinions. Go forth to fight trans fatty prohibition.
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Let's all get up and dance to Marley's Legalize It as Alaska not only legalizes it but relagalizes the damnable doob. Sorry bloggie but brownies are out in certain jurisdictions.
ReplyDeleteBurn one and put a cool war movie on. Fun fun fun....
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