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Listener: Rick
Category: General
Date: 11 Feb 2010
Time: 09:44:22 -0700
Remote Name: 66.140.104.223
Robert,
I am sitting here watching the Lehrer/PBS News Hour with my blood pressure going
up and up! And it's not because of my diet. It's because the First lady, better
described as the First Nanny in Chief, is revealing her bold plan to rescue the
American people, particularly our children, from the perils of obesity. It's
going to be a full court press to educate us, particularly our children, about
proper diet, exercise, and the consequences of the failure to heed the warnings.
The First Nanny In Chief is stressing the lack of information as a core factor
in this terrible slide in our nation's lifestyle. This is where my blood
pressure surges up. The idea that the reason so many of us are fat is due to
lack of information and the unavailability of healthy food sources is
ridiculous.
Robert, is your diet terrible (and it is) because you don't know any better? No.
And the answer is "no" for most of the rest of us. You just simply choose
totally of your own, stubborn free will to consume a diet that is not
particularly healthy and to refuse to exercise almost as a matter of principle.
And you are not alone in this respect.
Here's what I'm going to do. I'm going to put together a diet quiz for my
students. They will have to categorize foods and meals from healthy to okay to
awful on the basis health and nutrition. I betcha most all of them put foods in
the correct order. And then they'll go and eat nutritionally miserable lunches
that both they and their parents know are lousy on the basis of nutritional
value.
The First Lady's plan is so typical. Assume the citizenry needs a master
caretaker to lead us to a better life. We shall all now be children of the
state. As fat as Americans are and as bad our diets have become, the much
greater danger is the assumption that lies within this latest example of the
moral hazards of liberalism.
Rick
Pratt responds:
I'll forgive you this one time for watching the PBS News Hour when you should have been listening to Pratt on Texas.
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