Topic: Barack Obama

With his plate full (no pun intended) dealing with America?s jobless rate and the health coverage uninsured, the President has turned over a critical issue in American life to his wife, Michelle. (3) The President has collaborated with his wife in her ...
fat police? has set its sights on you. A current Fox News report confirms the Obama Administration demands obesity ratings for all citizens by 2014. Touting concerns for overweight Americans, the President promoted his personal cook to the position of ?Food Initiative ...
We're told this all the time, news reports on television, special features in newspapers, splashed all over the Internet, America is getting fatter and facing a crisis of obesity.. The Surgeon General is the highest health care official in the United States. ...
First some brilliant politician touts genocide as a way to get the senior citizen population off the health care rosters; then President Obama blames obesity for a major part of the nation?s health care costs. President Obama said, ?They just need to ...
The ink on the Obamacare bill isn't even dry yet, hell it may not be completely written yet, but it is the law of the land. Michelle is on the warpath to stamp out obesity and to that end we have ourselves ...
Prevention Federal funded programs have made prevention a central issue in their campaign against obesity. Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius announced that part of the 2010 Health Care Reform Bill will add produce to school lunches, support grocery stores ...

Obesity task force urges action

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - First lady Michelle Obama on Tuesday unveiled a 70-point plan for reducing childhood obesity within a generation, including a call for marketing healthier food but stopping short of recommending regulatory action or a federal tax on sugary sodas.The obesity ...
Federal panel urges breast-feeding and healthy pregnancy weight to help control child obesityWomen could help reduce childhood obesity by maintaining a healthy weight when they become pregnant and by breast-feeding their babies, a government panel has found.The suggestions were among 70 recommendations ...

First lady leads charge against obesity

ALEXANDRIA, Virginia (Reuters) - U.S. health officials have leveraged the star power of first lady Michelle Obama to roll out a new campaign against obesity, a preventable condition that drains billions of dollars from the economy.Obama, who plans to take on childhood ...
President Barack Obama hinted he could support a " sin tax" on fizzy drinks to help lower high rates of US obesity, but admitted it would be an uphill battle against corporate and economic interests. "I actually think it's an idea that ...
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