barry Issues Executive Order Mandating “Lifestyle Behavior Modification”

[chefdennis]

Tie this to "barrycare" and the Fed Gov is about to mandate how and what you can eat and how to live...don't follow their guidelines and you will be in contempt of barry....

For Immediate Release
June 10, 2010
Executive Order-- Establishing the National Prevention, Health Promotion, and Public Health Council | The White House


EXECUTIVE ORDER
ESTABLISHING THE NATIONAL PREVENTION, HEALTH PROMOTION, AND PUBLIC HEALTH COUNCIL

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 4001 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Public Law 111----148, it is hereby ordered as follows:

Section 1. Establishment. There is established within the Department of Health and Human Services, the National Prevention, Health Promotion, and Public Health Council (Council).

Sec. 2. Membership.
(a) The Surgeon General shall serve as the Chair of the Council, which shall be composed of:
(1) the Secretary of Agriculture;
(2) the Secretary of Labor;
(3) the Secretary of Health and Human Services;
(4) the Secretary of Transportation;
(5) the Secretary of Education;
(6) the Secretary of Homeland Security;
(7) the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency;
( the Chair of the Federal Trade Commission;
(9) the Director of National Drug Control Policy;
(10) the Assistant to the President and Director of the Domestic Policy Council;
(11) the Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs;
(12) the Chairman of the Corporation for National and Community Service; and
(13) the head of any other executive department or agency that the Chair may, from time to time, determine is appropriate.
(b) The Council shall meet at the call of the Chair.

Sec. 3. Purposes and Duties. The Council shall:
(a) provide coordination and leadership at the Federal level, and among all executive departments and agencies, with respect to prevention, wellness, and health promotion practices, the public health system, and integrative health care in the United States;
(b) develop, after obtaining input from relevant stakeholders, a national prevention, health promotion, public health, and integrative health-care strategy that incorporates the most effective and achievable means of improving the health status of Americans and reducing the incidence of preventable illness and disability in the United States, as further described in section 5 of this order;
(c) provide recommendations to the President and the Congress concerning the most pressing health issues confronting the United States and changes in Federal policy to achieve national wellness, health promotion, and public health goals, including the reduction of tobacco use, sedentary behavior, and poor nutrition;
(d) consider and propose evidence-based models, policies, and innovative approaches for the promotion of transformative models of prevention, integrative health, and public health on individual and community levels across the United States;
(e) establish processes for continual public input, including input from State, regional, and local leadership communities and other relevant stakeholders, including Indian tribes and tribal organizations;
(f) submit the reports required by section 6 of this order; and
(g) carry out such other activities as are determined appropriate by the President.

Sec. 4. Advisory Group.
(a) There is established within the Department of Health and Human Services an Advisory Group on Prevention, Health Promotion, and Integrative and Public Health (Advisory Group), which shall report to the Chair of the Council.
(b) The Advisory Group shall be composed of not more than 25 members or representatives from outside the Federal Government appointed by the President and shall include a diverse group of licensed health professionals, including integrative health practitioners who are representative of or have expertise in:
(1) worksite health promotion;
(2) community services, including community health centers;
(3) preventive medicine;
(4) health coaching;
(5) public health education;
(6) geriatrics; and
(7) rehabilitation medicine.
(c) The Advisory Group shall develop policy and program recommendations and advise the Council on lifestyle-based chronic disease prevention and management, integrative health care practices, and health promotion.

Sec. 5. National Prevention and Health Promotion Strategy. Not later than March 23, 2011, the Chair, in consultation with the Council, shall develop and make public a national prevention, health promotion, and public health strategy (national strategy), and shall review and revise it periodically. The national strategy shall:
(a) set specific goals and objectives for improving the health of the United States through federally supported prevention, health promotion, and public health programs, consistent with ongoing goal setting efforts conducted by specific agencies;
(b) establish specific and measurable actions and timelines to carry out the strategy, and determine accountability for meeting those timelines, within and across Federal departments and agencies; and
(c) make recommendations to improve Federal efforts relating to prevention, health promotion, public health, and integrative health-care practices to ensure that Federal efforts are consistent with available standards and evidence.

Sec. 6. Reports. Not later than July 1, 2010, and annually thereafter until January 1, 2015, the Council shall submit to the President and the relevant committees of the Congress, a report that:
(a) describes the activities and efforts on prevention, health promotion, and public health and activities to develop the national strategy conducted by the Council during the period for which the report is prepared;
(b) describes the national progress in meeting specific prevention, health promotion, and public health goals defined in the national strategy and further describes corrective actions recommended by the Council and actions taken by relevant agencies and organizations to meet these goals;
(c) contains a list of national priorities on health promotion and disease prevention to address lifestyle behavior modification (including smoking cessation, proper nutrition, appropriate exercise, mental health, behavioral health, substance-use disorder, and domestic violence screenings) and the prevention measures for the five leading disease killers in the United States;
(d) contains specific science-based initiatives to achieve the measurable goals of the Healthy People 2020 program of the Department of Health and Human Services regarding nutrition, exercise, and smoking cessation, and targeting the five leading disease killers in the United States;
(e) contains specific plans for consolidating Federal health programs and centers that exist to promote healthy behavior and reduce disease risk (including eliminating programs and offices determined to be ineffective in meeting the priority goals of the Healthy People 2020 program of the Department of Health and Human Services);
(f) contains specific plans to ensure that all Federal health-care programs are fully coordinated with science-based prevention recommendations by the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; and
(g) contains specific plans to ensure that all prevention programs outside the Department of Health and Human Services are based on the science-based guidelines developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention under subsection (d) of this section.

Sec. 7. Administration.
(a) The Department of Health and Human Services shall provide funding and administrative support for the Council and the Advisory Group to the extent permitted by law and within existing appropriations.
(b) All executive departments and agencies shall provide information and assistance to the Council as the Chair may request for purposes of carrying out the Council's functions, to the extent permitted by law.
(c) Members of the Advisory Group shall serve without compensation, but shall be allowed travel expenses, including per diem in lieu of subsistence, as authorized by law for persons serving intermittently in Government service (5 U.S.C. 5701-5707), consistent with the availability of funds.

Sec. 8. General Provisions.
(a) Insofar as the Federal Advisory Committee Act, as amended (5 U.S.C App.) may apply to the Advisory Group, any functions of the President under that Act, except that of reporting to the Congress, shall be performed by the Secretary of Health and Human Services in accordance with the guidelines that have been issued by the Administrator of General Services.
(b) Nothing in this order shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:
(1) authority granted by law to an executive department, agency, or the head thereof; or
(2) functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.
(c) This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.

BARACK OBAMA
THE WHITE HOUSE,
June 10, 2010

 

[chefdennis]

OVM wrote:

more tax dollars spent...meaningless to the regular duffer...

Regular "duffers" don't pay taxes!?!?

 

[chefdennis]

I knew what you meant and i was simply saying that yes the regular "lunch bucket joes" are paying the taxes for another program the the Fed Gov ha no right being involved in...its just another attempt on their part at controling your life and lifestyle....and using your tax dollars to abuse you....

 

[layoutshooter]

Its not really an attempt to control per say...but to inform as private groups do now, only difference will be the taxpayer will be footing the bill...you know Don't smoke, exercise eat healthy...

like I said, basically another way to spend more money...this HC is going to be a monster...I can't believe people can't see this...

Maybe in Canada it is not an attempt to control, it will be used that way here. Everything that this socialist government does is aimed at controlling the People.

 

[layoutshooter]

It could be construed as a control measure...by drilling it into you to change your living and eating habits for a healthy lifestyle....

The government has no business in my lifestyle. They have no business telling me what I can and cannot eat. They can go suck a egg for all I care.

 

[layoutshooter]

Right now it the cancer society, the no smoking groups, the Amer Diabetes assoc...all telling you the same thing..the difference being...now we'll be footing the bill for all this FREE advice....ironic eh?

Ironic? More like sick, disgusting, oppressive and socialistic. They won't stop with "giving advice"

 

[moose]

Right now it the cancer society, the no smoking groups, the Amer Diabetes assoc...

Wanna bet it's gonna end up being the same peoples on the gov. pay check ?...

 

[Turtle]

The government has been intimately involved in in behavioral modification insofar as what you eat ever since they devised the first "food for young people" dietary suggestions in 1919, then Roosevelt came up with the Basic 7, which was found to be far too complicated for idiot peasants and was reduced for the Basic 4, and was molded into the Food Pyramid, whereby public educators and everyone else pounded into the American People. The largest food group in the Pyramid was, and still is, breads, cereals and grains. 6-11 servings a day. You know grains, it's the stuff they feed to cows to make them fat. 6-11 servings a day. It should come as no surprised that the Food Pyramid was devised by the USDA, the United States Department of Agriculture. Newp, can't see any conflict of interest there.

Now they have a new and improved version of the Food Pyramid, called the MyPyramid, a name chosen by a first class moron, I'm sure. If you look at the new MyPraymid, you see lots of colors, some larger than others, which would seem to indicate that the ones that are larger have equal importance.

The first color, orange, is grains, listed first because it's the most important (at least to corn and wheat growers) and then you have the green for veggies and slightly smaller is dark red for fruits.

Then there's that little yellow slice, barely there. What's that? Can't be important (it's oils, like olive oil and lard, because they're bad for you).

Let's move on to the next really big one, the cyan one, which is milk all by itself, and even though the Milk Group is composed of milk, cheese and yogurt at 1-3 servings a day, you'd never know it by looking at your very own MyPyramid. Looks the same size the the same importance as the Kellog's Corn Flakes group. Think the Milk Producers Association had any input on the design of the MyPyramid?

That last group over there, the purple one, that's meats and beans, but it's way over there at the end, and smaller than most of the others, 2-3 servings a day, which means it's not very good for you (meat is bad for your heart and beans make you fart), but the USDA can't piѕѕ off the entire "meat-it's what's for dinner" industry, so they give it a little love, albeit everyone's least favorite color (unless you're with FECC, then you can have three glasses of cyan whole milk and a purple burger a day and you're just peachy with MyPyramid).

On the Good News front, we're gonna have salt-free bacon.

 

[layoutshooter]

Did not follow it then, won't now, even if they try to force the issue, which I fully expect them to do. They are out of control.

 

[AMonger]

Its not really an attempt to control per say...but to inform as private groups do now,

It's not an attempt to control us TODAY, but we all knew with Commu-care that something like this was coming down the pike sooner or later, probably sooner rather than later, right? And this is just the first step. Think of the next few things down the pike that WILL claim the right to control us. "Hey, if we're paying for your health care, then the public has a right to take your salt shaker and make sure you exercise 3 times a week."

And what's the deal with Homeland Security being involved in this? What do we call States that have their security apparatus involved in everything?

 

[moose]

And what's the deal with Homeland Security being involved in this?

right here :

"(meat is bad for your heart and beans make you fart)"

 

[AMonger]

Just an example of people and the "control" issue...this ain't about the smoking habit..it is about the mindset of some Americans...

I can't find one other state where the people took up a petition, got the required signatures and forced the state to call for a vote on the banning of state wide smoking?
Except SD...Legislators banned smoking last year, the law is on hold and now it is on the Nov Ballot..the PEOPLE of SD will decide to ban smoking NOT the politicians. Isn't that the way it is supposed to work?

Not in a constitutional republic, no. In a direct democracy, which is a horrible system of governance under which no rights are safe, it would be.

They are only talking about banning smoking in public, right?

 

[Moot]

On the Good News front, we're gonna have salt-free bacon.

Salt-free bacon will probably have the snot irridated out of it, along with the salt. Hormel makes Spam Lite. That's as ridiculous as lite beer and lite cigarettes.

What's next, Soylent Green Lite™? When they come for my regular Soylent Green™ they will have to pry my cold dead fingers from it.