Thank You Uncle Sam
From a CNS news story today.
Fess up, Ricocheters: How many of you have not read the federal dietary guidelines? And how many have had your life changed once you did?
Ag Secretary: Federal Dietary Guidelines Changed My Life
(CNSNews.com) - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack confessed today that he had “never read” the federal government's dietary guidelines until he joined the Obama Administration and since he read them it had changed his life.
“I must admit personally, I had never read the dietary guidelines until I got this job. But I read them in detail. I read all of them and I realized how significantly different my eating habits were from what constituted a healthy pattern. So personally, my life has changed by virtue of these dietary guidelines,” he told an audience at George Washington University on Monday as he and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius unveiled the newest set of federal dietary guidelines.
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May '10
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Yeah, I read them. But I reject them.
Jul '10
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Personally, my life was changed by reading the Consumer Product Safety Commission's regulations about flame-resistant pajamas.
Now I sleep in the buff.
But sometimes I do miss my Howdy Doody pj's.
May '10
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Kenneth: Personally, my life was changed by reading the Consumer Product Safety Commission's regulations about flame-resistant pajamas.
Now I sleep in the buff.
But sometimes I do miss my Howdy Doody pj's. · Feb 1 at 8:55pm
Too much information.
Jul '10
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Kervinlee
Kenneth: Personally, my life was changed by reading the Consumer Product Safety Commission's regulations about flame-resistant pajamas.
Now I sleep in the buff.
But sometimes I do miss my Howdy Doody pj's. · Feb 1 at 8:55pm
Too much information. · Feb 1 at 8:57pm
I forgot to mention my blanky...
Re: Thank You Uncle Sam
I sense another individual mandate in the offing.
Jul '10
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George, shut up and eat your broccoli.
And pay your taxes.
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Kenneth, I'm just going to drink some Iowa auto fuel. Ethanol is one of the four basic food groups, isn't it?
Sep '10
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Well, at least we can be happy that the head of that dept. has bothered to read his own department's guidelines and even tried to abide by them.
May '10
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It makes me feel all gooey inside, knowing that the government cares about us so much.
May '10
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If you say so, doctor.
Dec '10
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Only for bachelors. Married guys gotta each greens N stuff.
Aug '10
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One wonders how humankind ever managed to plan their meals, before the government started releasing 95 page advisories.
Aug '10
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I was saying these things and weeping in the most bitter contrition of my heart, when, lo, I heard the voice as of a boy or girl, I know not which, coming from a neighbouring house, chanting, and oft repeating, “Take up and read; take up and read.” Immediately my countenance was changed, and I began most earnestly to consider whether it was usual for children in any kind of game to sing such words; nor could I remember ever to have heard the like. So, restraining the torrent of my tears, I rose up, interpreting it no other way than as a command to me from Heaven to open the book, and to read the first Chapter I should light upon.
Jun '10
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Praise the Lord/Government, he's saved!
Dec '10
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It is where I went to school. The others were, Pizza, Chinese Food, Diet Pepsi, and Scuttlebutt.
As for the .gov "guidelines", I think I'll stick with my grandpa and great grandpa's dietary guidelines: Bacon, Eggs, Toast, & Gravy in the AM, SPAM on Wonder Bread for Lunch, and Shake-N-Bake Porkchops with Mashed Tatars & Gravy, Corn, and Cabbage (cooked until it surrendered unconditionally) for Supper. All awash at all times of the day with copious quantities of either Folger's Instant Coffee or Pabst Blue Ribbon beer (or maybe both at the same time).
My great grandpa lived to be 99 years old, and my grandpa will turn 90 this year.
The dietitians can all go jump in a lake.
Jan '11
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Hmmm. We're having a "Biggest Loser" contest at work. A triathlete has lost more than anyone - he hasn't changed his diet - he's swimming and running. I love Alton Brown's show "Live and Let Diet" about his approach to weight loss. His "diet" makes sense - he says avoid the term "diet" - Google Alton Brown diet.
Jul '10
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My great grandmother lived to be over 100 on a diet of eggs and pancakes cooked in bacon fat, plus bacon, milk fresh from the morning milking, and powder biscuits with fresh churned butter. I strive every day to live up to that woman's memory.
I do not believe that under the current devastating debt crisis, we have the money to continue paying massive teams of federal dietitians to prepare material for PJ O'Rourke. PJ will just have to go back to stealing Rob Long's stuff.
Jun '10
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You can joke all you want about diet not impacting one's health, quality of life, and longevity, but you'd be wrong. The field of nutrition is an important one and an evolving one. Doctors from my youth never really learned much about it in med school, but that's changed, for the better.
I do have a major problem with government dietary guidelines. I think we can figure it out with advice from non-government docs, nurses, and nutirtionists, thank you very much.
A simple rule to be healthy: we should eat less and exercise more. Now I just need to gather up the discipline to follow my own advice.
Jul '10
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I'm with the Iowahawk:
Edited on Feb 2, 2011 at 7:49amJun '10
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Tater Tots should be eaten with a fork.