Anybody Buying Yet? Where’s the Bottom?

[Bonasababy]

She was not. Virtually zero fat-shaming, doomed from the start.

So fat shaming should be part of any program?

 

[mtmiller]

They aren't exactly apples and oranges, they're pretty friggin close. Focused on eating more whole foods, improving school nutrition, better clarity on labelling.

Fox freaked the FO with Michelle’s Let’s Move. I am sure they are equal opportunity scrutiny in 2026.

I still remember when I was in high school (1983) and rfk made a visit to my home in the Black Hills. He got pretty sick on the flight. Probably the menu.

 

[Treeshark]

So fat shaming should be part of any program?

A Make America Healthy Again program? Acknowledging obesity is bad would be far better than pretending it is healthy and beautiful.

 

[brymoore]

I strongly, strongly support a shift back towards higher protein diets, full fat dairy, and lots of fruits and vegetables and get added sugar the hell out of our food supply. Michelle argued for more grains and veggies and kinda implied less meat.

You had me at whole milk!

 

[mtmiller]

You had me at whole milk!

Lost me at “kinda implied”.

 

[Bonasababy]

A Make America Healthy Again program? Acknowledging obesity is bad would be far better than pretending it is healthy and beautiful.

Acknowledging obesity and fat shaming are completely different things!

 

[mtmuley]

If we need regulations so people eat healthier, the battle is already lost. mtmuley

 

[Matthew57]

If we need regulations so people eat healthier, the battle is already lost. mtmuley

Seems to work pretty well for Europe

 

[mtmuley]

Seems to work pretty well for Europe

Great. This is the USA. Ain't gonna work great. mtmuley

 

[Matthew57]

Great. This is the USA. Ain't gonna work great. mtmuley

It ain’t working great right now

 

[Exhausted]

If we need regulations so people eat healthier, the battle is already lost. mtmuley

It’s not so people eat better, it’s to stop rewarding companies for making food literally addictive and bad for us in spite of the obvious negative social impact.

 

[Beignet]

Seems to work pretty well for Europe

While they do regulate ingredients that can be downright dangerous, they don’t regulate what you can purchase at the grocery store, per se. They do make it easier for a consumer to make informed decisions with scores prominently placed in the corner of packaged foods without having to interpret whether ingredients no human can pronounce will plug up their colon.

 

[Wildabeest]

#Winning

https://www.reuters.com/world/us-debt-crosses-40-trillion-threshold-after-doubling-under-trump-biden-2026-08-19/

 

[SAJ-99]

It’s not so people eat better, it’s to stop rewarding companies for making food literally addictive and bad for us in spite of the obvious negative social impact.

The companies seem to be doing ok.

Sure, I guess it is good getting rid of artificial dyes in M&Ms but I think the fact that dye-free M&Ms are 4x the cost of regular M&Ms will drive sales more than the regulation will.

Back to the point, you can’t separate the bat-shit crazy MAHA ideas from feel-good, eat-healthy ideas. RFK has done an immense amount of damage to the public perception and funding of mRNA vaccines. Tangentially it is damage to expert-based science. The cancer drug news is great to see, but certainly will be interesting to watch because backtracking is not rewarded in this Adminstration.

 

[mtmuley]

It’s not so people eat better, it’s to stop rewarding companies for making food literally addictive and bad for us in spite of the obvious negative social impact.

Pretty easy. Don't eat it. mtmuley