Michelle OBama spoke out against childhood obesity. Sarah Palin had issues with that.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/11/24/martin.michelle.obama.palin/index.html?hpt=T2

What's offensive about encouraging people to eat more healthily? Didn't Swartzeneger promote the same as Bush's Health Czar?

I'll admit I eat too much fast food as a matter of convenience and it's an aim of mine to curb that. It's gonna be tougher for some people of lower ecomomic means, but at the same time, plenty of well to do's eat fast food all the time.

It's b/c it's there on every corner. And we can't legislate against a McD's at every highway exit any more than we can against a liquor/convenience store on every urban corner.

But we can encourage nutritional responsibilty and there's an open opportunity for healthy "fast food" companies to fill the void that's missing.

In the end, it's up to us what we put in our bodies - and to an extent what parents put in their childrens' bodies - and we are living in an age of convenience that wasn't around 30 plus years ago, and overall, that was probably a healthier time.

No government can legislate a healthy lifestyle, but it's kind of like the seatbelt law. You don't want your insurance to go up but when people get in accidents and are severly injured or killed b/c they weren't wearing a seat belt or didn't have an airbag in their vehicle, it costs the insurance companies more and the buck is passed down to us.

It's the same when it comes to having a healthier society. Guidelines for a healthy lifestyle should never be admonished since they benefit the individual, the family, our communities and our nation.

Our government has its hands in more issues now than in 1783 bc times have changed and while our quality of life is much better than it was 227 years ago in terms of comfort and convenience, many of those sources of comfort and convenience have created new risks that were neither present nor foreseeable to our Founding Fathers.

Open your eyes people. The times, they are a changin', they've been a changin' forever and they will continue to change. And we have to be both proactive and reactive in all areas of life.

We only get one chance here on earth, but the way live, the decisions we make and the standards we set impact the lives of generations to come. And if we care about ourselves, our families, our communities and our nation...well, we should do something about it to affect positive change.