When did nutrition awareness become a liberal value, and eating saturated fat a conservative value?

[Boojatta]

I presume it was some time after the Kinks first sang "A Well Respected Man."

[Fumesucker]

1. Real 'Murkins eat saturated fats..

'Nuff said..

[TheBigotBasher]

2. They are also angry about New York banning trans fats.

Good. Let them eat more - much much more.

[Hello_Kitty]

3. Because everything is a culture war to conservatives. eom

[old mark]

4. back in the 1950's the extreme right were all vexed about "Mental Health"!

Evidently several of their leading lights had had professional issues with the psychiatric community, and they chose to interpret this as leftist persecution...They began to hate health foods and flouriudated water about the same time, too.

This all coincided with the increase in publicity of flying saucers, and it allgot kind of lumped together...many on the right are still not sure about them saucers

How could anyone suspect the mental health of a Palin, say, or a Rand Paul?

mark

[get the red out]

5. I have noticed this

It is very strange because disease prevention should be important to everyone, but everything has to be about politics to them. It is just another symptom of reducing everything in our society to "us vs them".

[marybourg]

6. Some time after Mr Kellog invented his breakfast cereal. nt.

[Chan790]

7. Good old Dr. Kellogg.

Because there was a man who was truly of sound mind.

The man thought women stole men's "lively vigors" (life force, basically) during sex and that pooping a lot would lead to long-life.

[Swede]

8. It's our hidden agenda.

All them test subjects just volunteering.

[rucky]

9. It fits in with the "Me. Now," "Aw, fuck it," and "Proud to love crappy shit." values.

[drm604]

10. Overeating, eating saturated fats and other unhealty foods, etc.

is good for the giant corporations that sell those things. Eating unprocessed food eliminates many of those middlemen.

Somehow "conservative" values always end up siding with what's best for the large corporations.

[Boojatta]

11. Kick

[pitohui]

12. never as far as i know -- it's self involved twits who go fat free around here

there's a reason all those GOP doctor's wives are social x-rays

nancy reagan isn't a skeleton because of all the saturated fat she eats

[Catshrink]

13. I'm a member of the professional left and I will not give up my bacon.

That's about the only saturated fat I eat, but damn, it's bacon. Bacon and beer - signs God loves us and wants us to be happy. (Apologies to Ben Franklin, who I'm sure would agree with my sentiments.)