Doctors to Obama: Stop eating unhealthy foods at photo ops

[Gina]

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."

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2012/05/doctors-group-to-obama-stop-eating-burgers/1?csp=obinsite#.T7Pf0lK2YaM

 

[Karin]

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[JohnnyReb]

I don't suspect that $100 a pound steaks come from unhealthy cows.

[NHSparky]

I don't suspect that $100 a pound steaks come from unhealthy cows.

Ever seen the fat marbling in one of those steaks?  There's a reason they say they taste like butter...cause it's mostly fat.

[JohnnyReb]

Ever seen the fat marbling in one of those steaks?  There's a reason they say they taste like butter...cause it's mostly fat.

Hell no I ain't never seen one of those....who do you think I am, The President?