{"id":16263,"date":"2012-06-10T22:03:19","date_gmt":"2012-06-11T02:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/watchwomanonthewall\/?p=16263"},"modified":"2012-06-19T20:01:08","modified_gmt":"2012-06-20T00:01:08","slug":"philadelphia-food-police-to-eradicate-food-deserts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/watchwomanonthewall\/2012\/06\/philadelphia-food-police-to-eradicate-food-deserts.html","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia Food Police to Eradicate \u2018Food Deserts\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><strong>Watchwoman:<\/strong><\/span> <strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Re: Philadelphia Food Police to Eradicate \u2018Food Deserts\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I have battled with my weight all of my life, like most people battle with paying taxes!\u00a0 I hate it!\u00a0 I eat very healthy, but nevertheless, I have always been the first one to gain weight by just looking at a homemade pie or a dumpling!\u00a0 Since I was 15, I have never drank a soda pop that was NOT a diet beverage!\u00a0 That&#8217;s 53 years of NEVER drinking a high-sugar-filled Pepsi or Coke! I drank TAB long before we had tasty sugar substitutes that have improved the taste of everything diet including the iced tea sitting next to me on my desk, sweetened with a safe artificial calorie-free, carb-free sweetener and fresh lemon slices.\u00a0 Frankly, the TAB (made by Coke) of my youth tasted more like a carbonated dead BAT (spell TAB backwards) than Coca-cola.<\/p>\n<p>I never add sugar to anything!<\/p>\n<p>I have been on every diet ever invented by mankind, doctors, and all the money-grubbing shysters as well!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve read more books about food, diets and nutrition than most college graduates have read by the time they acquire their PhD in any subject!<\/p>\n<p>I know more about nutrition than a diabetic consultant!<\/p>\n<p>Sure, I&#8217;d like to see more low-carb foods available as substitutes for the high-sugar laden, carb-stuffed poundage putter on-ers!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_12714\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12714\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/244\/2012\/02\/Food-Police-Badge1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12714 \" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/244\/2012\/02\/Food-Police-Badge1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12714\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Here come da FOOD NAZI&#039;s! Michele Obama Leading the Attack!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Still, I do NOT want the Michele Obama&#8217;s FOOD POLICE telling my grocer or anyone what you and I can and cannot eat or dictate what they must or must not sell.\u00a0 It is a loss of your and my rights as free citizens of the USA &#8212; living under the freedoms guaranteed by our U.S. Constitution.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16264\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16264\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/244\/2012\/06\/Peters-Dream-Vision-regarding-eating-all-foods-Acts-10-1-thru-48-11-1-thru18.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16264\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/244\/2012\/06\/Peters-Dream-Vision-regarding-eating-all-foods-Acts-10-1-thru-48-11-1-thru18.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"310\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16264\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Peter&#039;s Dream - Vision - Regarding eating all foods (all things are clean) Acts 10:1-48, Acts 11:1-18<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In the New Testament, when Peter had his dream (Acts 10 &amp; 11) I learned in Sunday School long ago that meant that all the Old Testament dietary rules and regulations were put aside.\u00a0 You and I are free in Christ to make our own decisions!\u00a0 Jesus Christ made it clear that it isn&#8217;t what is put into the mouth that defiles a man, but what comes out!\u00a0 (Matthew 15:11)<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16267\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16267\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/watchwomanonthewall\/files\/2012\/06\/U-S-Constitution-We-the-People.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-16267 \" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/244\/2012\/06\/U-S-Constitution-We-the-People-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16267\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">U. S. Constitution, We the People are Guaranteed that the Federal Government will not trample our Inalienable rights (God-given rights)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The U.S. Constitution was never constructed with the intent to cripple businesses and\/or constrict the individual.\u00a0 The whole reason for the U.S. Constitution is to limit the power of the central federal government &#8212; and the primary purpose of the U.S. Constitution is there to protect us from the likes of Michele Obama and the FOOD NAZI&#8217;S.<\/p>\n<p>The U. S. Constitution is the ONLY document of it&#8217;s kind, made to guarantee the<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"> inalienable rights we are GIVEN by God long before the U.S. Constitution was constructed<\/span>!\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Now that includes eating all things<\/span>!<\/p>\n<p>I want Michele Obama and her Nazi Food Police Force to get out of your and my White House, out of our kitchens, out of our grocery stores, out of our restaurants and out of your and my lives!\u00a0 Got it?\u00a0 Can I be any plainer?\u00a0 More blunt!\u00a0 Go away, Michele!\u00a0 Take you and your husband and get out of the communist\/socialist business of trying to control each and everything we Americans were FREE\u00a0to do before the communist thugs got your husband elected!\u00a0 You think his getting elected has given you The Dictatorial Powers of the First Lady in Chef and Chief of the Nazi Food Police.\u00a0 PLEASE JUST LEAVE US ALONE!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_12755\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12755\" style=\"width: 137px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/244\/2012\/02\/Obama-crossing-off-Bill-of-Rights.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12755\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/244\/2012\/02\/Obama-crossing-off-Bill-of-Rights.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"137\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12755\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Obama crossing off Bill of Rights<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Believe me, there is a hidden agenda Michele and Obama have in mind &#8212; and it&#8217;s not about curing obesity!\u00a0 It is about taking away your rights and putting those rights (freedom stealers)\u00a0 into the hands of dictatorial centralized government who will eventually dictate every thing you can and cannot do &#8212; which is diabolically opposed to what the Founding Father&#8217;s and God&#8217;s Agenda and Plan for America was in 1776.<\/p>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t understand this, get yourself educated because you are losing what is YOUR GOD-GIVEN RIGHTS, not from man, but given to you by Your Creator, Jesus Christ, and you&#8217;re losing them on a daily basis!<\/p>\n<p>Dictators cannot tolerate Jesus Christ because to be in Christ is to be free indeed! \u00a0<strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><strong>[John 8:36]\u00a0 If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u25ac\u00a0 Donna Calvin<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read about unalienable Rights:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\">The absolute rights of individuals may be resolved into the right of personal security, the right of personal liberty, and the right to acquire and enjoy property. These rights are declared to be natural, inherent, and unalienable. Atchison &amp; N. R. Co. v. Baty, 6 Neb. 37, 40, 29 Am. Rep. 356.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">By the &#8220;absolute rights&#8221; of individuals is meant those which are so in their primary and strictest sense, such as would belong to their persons merely in a state of nature, and which every man is entitled to enjoy, whether out of society or in it. The rights of personal security, of personal liberty, and private property do not depend upon the Constitution for their existence. They existed before the Constitution was made, or the government was organized. These are what are termed the &#8220;absolute rights&#8221; of individuals, which belong to them independently of all government, and which all governments which derive their power from the consent of the governed were instituted to protect. People v. Berberrich (N. Y.) 20 Barb. 224, 229; McCartee v. Orphan Asylum Soc. (N. Y.) 9 Cow. 437, 511, 513, 18 Am. Dec. 516; People v. Toynbee (N. Y.) 2 Parker, Cr. R. 329, 369, 370 (quoting 1 Bl. Comm. 123).<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">Chancellor Kent (2 Kent, Comm. 1) defines the &#8220;absolute rights&#8221; of individuals as the right of personal security, the right of personal liberty, and the right to acquire and enjoy property. These rights have been justly considered and frequently declared by the people of this country to be natural, inherent, and inalienable, and it may be stated as a legal axiom [A principle that is not disputed; a maxim] that since the great laboring masses of our country have little or no property but their labor, and the free right to employ it to their own best interests and advantage, it must be considered that the constitutional inhibition against all invasion of property without due process of law was as fully intended to embrace and protect that property as any of the accumulations it may have gained. In re Jacobs (N. Y.) 33 Hun, 374, 378.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Read More: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unalienable.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.unalienable.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAABXMAAAAQCAIAAADbFnsHAAAAjklEQVR4nO3bsQkAMQwEQfUfuQ0HX+O7h02MYYYtQPGB5gcAAACo5vYBAAAAwMMsCwAAAEBnWQAAAAA6ywIAAADQWRYAAACAzrIAAAAAdJYFAAAAoLMsAAAAAJ1lAQAAAOjm20uSJEmSJKllWZAkSZIkST3fEAAAAEBnWQAAAAA6ywIAAADQWRYAAACA7gAbPLhP\/eL7swAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/rw\/sites\/twpweb\/img\/logos\/twp_logo_300.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<h1>Will Philadelphia\u2019s experiment in eradicating \u2018food deserts\u2019 work?<\/h1>\n<h3><strong>By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/sarah-kliff\/2011\/07\/28\/gIQAoLzSfI_page.html\" rel=\"author\">Sarah Kliff<\/a>, Published: June\u00a08<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>View Photo Gallery<\/strong>:\u2009A city grappling with obesity begins stocking corner store shelves with nutritious snack alternatives.<\/p>\n<p>Philadelphia has the highest obesity rate and poorest population of America\u2019s big cities. It also has an ambitious plan \u2014 launched out of 632 corner stores \u2014 to put healthy food on every table.<\/p>\n<p>The $900,000 investment in better health depends on apples and oranges, chips and candy, $1,200 fridges and green plastic baskets. The results could steer the course of American food policy.<\/p>\n<p>Philadelphia is trying to turn corner stores into greengrocers. For a small shop, it\u2019s a risky business proposition. Vegetables have a limited shelf life, so a store owner must know how much will sell quickly \u2014 or watch profits rot away. He also lacks the buying power of large supermarkets and is often unable to meet the minimum orders required by the cheaper wholesalers that grocery stores use.<\/p>\n<p>With shelf space at a premium, shop owners must pick and choose the products they think will sell best. Chips and candy and soda are a sure bet. Eggplant? It\u2019s hard to know.<\/p>\n<p>Access to healthy foods has been a cornerstone of the Obama administration\u2019s food policy, dedicating hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funds to projects like this one. The goal is to eradicate food deserts \u2014 low-income areas that lack access to nutritious foods \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ams.usda.gov%2FAMSv1.0%2Fgetfile%3FdDocName%3DSTELPRDC5085689&amp;sa=D&amp;sntz=1&amp;usg=AFQjCNFSI7wBDzZM7WCoy2fLlTaKpaG1Fw\">by 2017<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMore parents will have a fresh food retailer right in their community \u2014 a place that sells healthy food, at reasonable prices, so they can feed their families the way they want,\u201d first lady Michelle Obama <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/the-press-office\/2011\/07\/20\/first-lady-michelle-obama-announces-nationwide-commitments-provide-milli\">said<\/a> when she launched the White House\u2019s $400 million Healthy Food Financing Initiative.<\/p>\n<p>More than just a drain on families, obesity is a huge economic drag: The United States <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/chronicdisease\/resources\/publications\/aag\/obesity.htm\">spends $147 billion each year<\/a> treating the condition.<\/p>\n<p>But even as the White House has scaled up such efforts, a growing body of research has questioned its basic assumption: that people will eat better if given better options. Multiple studies have scoured local, state and national data looking for a causal relationship between weight and access to healthy food. None has found it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a theory that makes sense, and it\u2019s intuitive,\u201d says Helen Lee, a policy fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California, whose research focuses on racial disparities in health outcomes. \u201cBut my concern would be that we\u2019re investing in a strategy that may not be very promising. If you\u2019re investing government money, you should carefully be evaluating how much you\u2019ve invested and how much you\u2019re getting out of that.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>Kliff wrote this article with the assistance of the Dennis A. Hunt Fund for Health Journalism, which is administered by the California Endowment Health Journalism Fellowships, a program of the University of Southern California\u2019s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Read More: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/ezra-klein\/post\/will-philadelphias-experiment-in-eradicating-food-deserts-work\/2012\/06\/08\/gJQAU9snNV_print.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/ezra-klein\/post\/will-philadelphias-experiment-in-eradicating-food-deserts-work\/2012\/06\/08\/gJQAU9snNV_print.html<\/a><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAABXIAAAAQCAIAAAA01BA5AAAAlElEQVR4nO3asQ2AQAwEQfcf0QYBNUJCA7\/J66UZbQGOT54XAAAAIJndBwAAAACnMisAAAAAkVkBAAAAiMwKAAAAQGRWAAAAACKzAgAAABCZFQAAAIDIrAAAAABEZgUAAAAgmue+JEmSJEmSljIrSJIkSZKk2D8r7HuUAAAAAM5mVgAAAAAiswIAAAAQmRUAAACA6ANFV48JKu65YgAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p 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