The First Lady has been visiting military bases to promote new nutritional standards and a food labeling system for the Armed Forces. On her visit to the Little Rock Air Force Base last month, she even told one airman, “Don’t worry, you’ll be a vegetable guy soon.” She’s quite good at mingling with the commoners, isn’t she?
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Under the new program, healthy foods will be labeled green, moderate foods amber, and high-calorie foods red. Soda machines are being replaced with “hydration stations.”
It might at first seem condescending to subject our brave men and women in uniform to this kind of eat-your-veggies, color-coded rigmarole. As Rep. Allen West said, “Let soldiers eat what they want to eat, okay?” Then again, soldiers should probably watch their intake very carefully considering how Obama’s defense budget proposes cuts in healthcare benefits for both active-duty and retired military.
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