MICHELLE OBAMA NOW TELLING RESTAURANTS WHAT TO SERVE-MAYBE SHE SHOULD LOOK AT HERSELF IN THE MIRROR FIRST?




Michelle Obama now wants to tell us all what to eat and is forcing restaurants to serve food we do not want to order! Will she now be another would be dictator like her husband...please enough Obama's in our life and now at our dinner table!

Obama's Surgeon General,Regina Benjamin, is morbidly Obese, and Ms. Obama is close behind looking at the photos-these the should not be telling others to eat right...what are they eating, the 30,000 daily calorie "sumo wrestler" diet?

Michelle Obama is forcing her campaign to reduce childhood obesity on the company that owns the Olive Garden, Red Lobster and four other popular restaurant chains is pledging to cut the calories and sodium in its meals and overhaul its kids’ fare.

Darden Restaurants Inc. was unveiling the changes Thursday, with the first lady on hand to lend support.

The company will pledge to reduce the calories and sodium in all its meals by 10 percent over five years, and by 20 percent over 10 years. For children, French fries and sugar-sweetened beverages will become the exception and not the rule.

All kids’ meals will automatically come with a side of fruit or vegetables and eight ounces of 1 percent milk unless an adult requests a substitute, said Drew Madsen, president and chief operating officer.

"We think it’s the most comprehensive health and wellness commitment in the industry," he said. Let's all laugh here....

Darden’s restaurants serve more than 400 million meals annually at more than 1,900 locations nationwide. Its four other restaurant chains are LongHorn Steakhouse, The Capital Grille, Bahama Breeze and Seasons 52. The Capital Grille and Seasons 52 do not have children’s menus.

Darden’s promise is part of a trend by the restaurant industry to serve healthier food. Let's laugh again here...now the Obama's want to control what we eat?

Since the beginning of the year, McDonald’s, Burger King, Chili’s, IHOP, Friendly’s and more than a dozen other large and small chains have said they will begin replacing the French fries in children’s meals with fruit and removing enticing pictures of less healthy items from their menus. Let's see where these diners will then go instead?

I remember reading about the FAT calories that were not very noticeable at the opulent White House dinners. Has Ms. Obama checked her calorie intake lately, will we be seeing here in one of those ads holding her former size 26 pants, and now wearing her size 16 pants??

Diners have become more health conscious and are asking for improvements, such as for their meals to be cooked without butter or with less salt or to be prepared any way but fried. Then there’s Mrs. Obama’s campaign to bring down childhood obesity rates.

One in three U.S. children is overweight or obese, putting them at greater risk of developing diabetes, heart disease or other health conditions. Mrs. Obama has said she wants to help today’s youngsters become adults at a healthy weight by eating better and getting more exercise.

In a speech a year ago to the National Restaurant Association, the first lady asked members to "actively promote healthy foods and healthy habits to our kids." Consumers, she said, spend half their food dollars on meals outside the home and eat one in three meals at a restaurant. She suggested serving low-fat milk and healthy sides like apple slices or carrots and making French fries available only upon request.

White House domestic policy adviser Melody Barnes said Darden’s announcement amounts to a "full-throated endorsement" of the types of changes Mrs. Obama has asked the nation’s restaurant owners and operators to make. Yeah, right, they really wanted to make those changes that their customer do not want! Another dictator in the making!

In a National Restaurant Association survey of chefs, two-thirds of those working in the kitchens of family dining, fine dining and fast-food restaurants said their customers were ordering healthier items and paying more attention to nutritional content than they did two years ago.

Similarly, chefs ranked healthful children’s meals as the fourth-hottest restaurant trend, behind locally grown and sustainable foods.

The government soon will begin requiring restaurants with 20 or more locations, along with bakeries, grocery stores, convenience stores and coffee chains, to include clear calorie counts on their menus.

Mrs. Obama participation in Thursday’s announcement, scheduled for an Olive Garden restaurant in the Washington suburb of Hyattsville, Md., will be her latest appearance with retailers and others in support of her anti-obesity efforts.

In January, she stood with Wal-Mart, the nation’s largest grocer, as it pledged to reformulate thousands of products it sells to make them healthier and to push suppliers to do the same.

This summer, the first lady applauded as Wal-Mart, Walgreens drug stores and several regional grocers committed to help eliminate "food deserts" by opening or expanding in rural and urban areas without easy access to healthy foods, including fresh fruits and vegetables.

My inquiry has resulted in finding out that these healthy meals are generally slow sellers and the chains have to throw out the "old" and expired food items that are slow sellers and cause them to lose money. A local manager told me that he is simply starting to order less and less to not have to destroy the products and show a loss at his store.

If you own a restaurant watch out when you see Michelle Obama, or the gigantic obese Regina Benjamin, but if you catch them before lunch, they will probably order the "gut buster special" which it looks like something that would be their personal preferred lunch item!

Another government mandate, staying do as I say, not as I do.

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