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Main Forums => Politics => Topic started by: Ben on July 17, 2010, 11:24:16 AM
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In order to control what I eat apparently, and tell me how fat I am. I saw part of this on a link to CNS yesterday, but wanted to wait till a more mainstream news service picked up on it simply because it's way too 1984ish and unbelievable.
Now my doctor is forced to record BMI on my medical records and make them available to the government? Which is also interesting because at my recent physical, my doctor told me BMI is not a good indicator for my body type. So I wonder if there will be a "notes" section to the govt form, or if I will simply be ordered to conform to BMI like a good citizen?
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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/07/17/feds-monitor-obesity-white-house-promotes-obama-cook-senior-position/
Feds to Monitor Obesity as White House Promotes Obama Cook to Senior Position
As the Obama administration sets its sights on overweight Americans, demanding obesity ratings for all citizens by 2014, the White House has promoted the Obamas' personal cook to a senior advisory position.
fox news\
As the Obama administration sets its sights on overweight Americans, demanding obesity ratings for all citizens by 2014, the White House has promoted the Obamas' personal cook to a senior advisory position.
Sam Kass, the 20-something Chicago chef, is now the White House "Food Initiative Coordinator," Kass' title reportedly was upgraded last month from food initiative coordinator to senior policy adviser for health food initiatives. His duties have not changed.
The change comes as the Health and Human Services announced this week that under the stimulus law, health care providers must establish "meaningful use" of electronic health records to qualify for federal subsidies or risk seeing their Medicare and Medicaid payments slashed. The electronic health records must include Americans' body mass index, or BMI, height and weight.
Critics say the BMI is unreliable and the ratings will lead to more government intrusion.
Supporters say the ratings will serve as motivation for weight loss.
"The fact we're now tracking BMIs', I think knowledge is power for us," nutrition expert Mitzi Dulan told Fox News."There are a lot of people that don't know their BMI and it's denial.
Dulan noted that a study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that $147 billion is spent annually on obesity-related costs, or 10 percent of medical costs.
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"The fact we're now tracking BMIs', I think knowledge is power for us," nutrition expert Mitzi Dulan told Fox News."There are a lot of people that don't know their BMI and it's denial.
Go to hell. BMIs are made up bullshit. Keep your f***ing fingers out of my business.
GD f***ing commies...
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Well, Obama went quickly from being a Chicago community activist to president, so what's wrong with a 20-something going from being a cook to a czar overseeing our diets?
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Go to hell. BMIs made up bullshit. Keep your f***ing fingers out of my business.
GD f***ing commies...
This. The guy who invented it wasn't a doctor, nutrition expert or anything. He was a goddamned mathematician and sociologist. As far as I'm concerned, BMI is pseudoscience, along with phrenology, astrology, Lysenkoism and other such idiocy.
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Just inching up the flame under that pot of now luke-warm water............you won't even feel the difference until you are in the camps.
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....along with phrenology, astrology, Lysenkoism and other such idiocy.
Shhhhhhhhh, don't give 'em any GD ideas !!!!!!
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543 days down, 918 days to go.
37.17% complete.
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Why don't they monitor smoking? Oh yeah, I forgot. Obama is a cigarette smoker.
(what is their Constitutional authority for this nonsense?)
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Why don't they monitor smoking? Oh yeah, I forgot. Obama is a cigarette smoker.
Cigarette smokers are much further down the road to the internment camps than the rest of the population. The liberal elites are above the policies they enact, such as health care.
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Go to hell. BMIs made up bullshit. Keep your f***ing fingers out of my business.
GD f***ing commies...
Well put. =|
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So all that hype and alarmism about Obamacare? Those people saying that if .gov pays our medical bills, they can claim authority over every detail of our lives? Those people were right? :O
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Just another case of good ol' boy cronyism. He wanted to pay off a loyal supporter. It didn't matter if this guy was his cook or guy who washes his rear end. He would of found some position for him.
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Don't they have to find a Senior Policy Advisor job for Bo's trainer? He can be useful in providing advice in how to make America's unwashed go fetch.
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"The fact we're now tracking BMIs', I think knowledge is power for us," nutrition expert Mitzi Dulan told Fox News."There are a lot of people that don't know their BMI and it's denial.
Dulan noted that a study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that $147 billion is spent annually on obesity-related costs, or 10 percent of medical costs.
Perhaps they will come up with a final solution for obesity ... =|
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Perhaps they will come up with a final solution for obesity ... =|
FEMA camps stocked with tofu, no doubt.
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FEMA camps stocked with tofu, no doubt.
Isn't that cruel and unusual punishment ???
Or maybe they will serve gruel and unusual punishment :lol:
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Isn't that cruel and unusual punishment ???
A few years ago I was listening to a radio station while driving somewhere in my car. It was a talk radio station, and the subject was nutrition. The host was very scholarly and businesslike, when the next caller (a male) asked a question about tofu.
The host immediately became more animated and replied, "Tofu ? That will turn you into a tree-hugger !"
=D
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So all that hype and alarmism about Obamacare? Those people saying that if .gov pays our medical bills, they can claim authority over every detail of our lives? Those people were right? :O
Shocker, ain't it?
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Shut up and eat your granola and broccoli. =D
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This is a case of the majority of the USA population getting exactly what they asked for, knowingly or not. =|
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This is a case of the majority of the USA population getting exactly what they asked for, knowingly or not. =|
^^^^This. The American people willingly voted for socialism the last go around. Now they are getting it in great big bleeding batches.
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Wonder what day will be Soylent Green day?....
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Wonder what day will be Soylent Green day?....
seeker_two won the thread.
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This actually makes me really happy. Most truly horrid laws are generationally accepted after enough people grow up with them, but when first passed they're usually: in the wake of a major traumatic event (GCA 1968), so minor at first they don't hurt enough people to cause pushback (NFA 1934), or slipped in as "emergency measures" (WoSD, 16th Amendment). Obama and friends don't have any of that.
Crap like this might hurt the looters and parasites enough they'll actually lash out at the administration. I think the soft middle is already getting there. I think the only hope for getting the frog out of the pot is passing all this crap at once. The socialists abandonning incrementalism is the best thing that could happen for our side. If fatties are really so common (ie such a large voting block) the more Obama does to piss them off the happier I am.
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543 days down, 918 days to go.
37.17% complete.
The worst is yet to come.
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Wonder what day will be Soylent Green day?....
Shaddup and get in the hopper.......
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What does this say about the rest of Obama's advisors that he promotes the cook? It's not like he is Steven Segal or something.
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What does this say about the rest of Obama's advisors that he promotes the cook? It's not like he is Steven Segal or something.
What does this say about the cook's boss? :P