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What do you think about the new $2 million Food Plate?

What do you think about the Food Plate?


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First Lady Reveals New Food

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I ****ing love it, they put "protein" so they don't offend vegetarians. :lol:
 
i think it's fine, why?
 
If it is shown to have a demonstrable positive effect on people's dietary habits, then maybe it was worth it.
 
Do you think it will?

no way to tell, but I wouldn't go so far as to say it definitely won't have any effect. People are susceptible to the suggestions of the images they see, and honestly this graphic makes a hell of a lot more sense than the food pyramid.
 
Here's how I see it...

If you want to get healthy and stay healthy, you will.

If you want to eat Cheetos and gain 50 pounds, you will.

No "Food Plate" is going to change it.
 
It's a waste of money, don't you think?

not really. if it helps educate people, we are possibly saving money. i can't work up any outrage over this.
 
Health is so critical to a properly functioning society, I'd have been happy with spending a lot more on it.
 
It's a waste of money, don't you think?
The war in Iraq was a total waste of money and lives, I think this has value. Don't sweat the small stuff Mellie.
 
The war in Iraq was a total waste of money and lives

Haha. You probably think Iraq is no better today than under Saddam. I wonder why.
 
Haha. You probably think Iraq is no better today than under Saddam. I wonder why.
I am not going to hijack this thread, but my previous post stands.
 
Health is so critical to a properly functioning society, I'd have been happy with spending a lot more on it.

Sorry, but I cannot see how this Food Plate is going to take a person who loves to eat potato chips and sit on their ass all day and change them into a fit person. Everyone knows how to be healthy...it's common sense. If you WANT to be healthy, you generally can be if you work for it. The government cannot change people who don't want to be healthy.
 
The war in Iraq was a total waste of money and lives, I think this has value. Don't sweat the small stuff Mellie.

I understand and respect your opinion on the Iraq war. But if we continue to let all this "small stuff" go through, it adds up to a lot.
 
Sorry, but I cannot see how this Food Plate is going to take a person who loves to eat potato chips and sit on their ass all day and change them into a fit person. Everyone knows how to be healthy...it's common sense. If you WANT to be healthy, you generally can be if you work for it. The government cannot change people who don't want to be healthy.

no, everyone DOES NOT know how to be healthy. kids don't.
 
Thanks for the technicality. Kids don't make the food buying decisions for the household.

no, they don't. but why not educate them so when it's time for them to do so, they will make good choices?
 
On the list of things to bitch and whine about, it's right up there with Palin painting a flag on her bus.
 
There should be another option for "non-issue"
I have no problem with this and Id like to see more money spent on education vs food vs health, that would be a good thing.

Maybe this works maybe it doesnt but its a good idea considering our obesity rate.
 
I like it, but it should have been divided like a pie chart vs. these weird pieces. It's harder visualise the percentages.
 
Here's how I see it...

If you want to get healthy and stay healthy, you will.

If you want to eat Cheetos and gain 50 pounds, you will.

No "Food Plate" is going to change it.

Do you believe people are fundamentally informed?
 
no, they don't. but why not educate them so when it's time for them to do so, they will make good choices?

You ask this as though we haven't been, or as though I object to education. What's objectionable is to allocate new spending to reinventing the wheel.

Funnel the money into a deeper causal factor, such as a campaign to get folks to cancel their cable TV subscriptions so that they aren't so inundated by crap food brainwashing day and night. You could probably even get Netflix and Hulu to fund it straight away.
 
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I haven't seen the details yet, but hopefully it's an improvement from the Food Pyramid. The Food Pyramid was based on which lobbyist groups were the most influential, rather than which diet is the healthiest. There is no WAY that people should eat as much meat or dairy products as the Food Pyramid said that they should.
 
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