Dr. Regina Benjamin Paid By Burger King

Alabama Daphne  President Obama's nominee for surgeon general whose job it is to help encourage Americans to get thinner and healthier has been working part time as a scientific adviser to the fast-food giant.
by The Associated Press
Published: Thu, August 13, 2009 - 3:38 pm CST Last Updated: Thu, August 13, 2009 - 4:15 pm CST
MONTGOMERY (AP) -- Alabama physician Regina Benjamin, President Obama's nominee for surgeon general, has been paid $10,000 since last year to serve on a scientific advisory board for fast-food giant Burger King, The Washington Times reported Thursday.
The newspaper reported that newly filed financial disclosure documents revealed the payments to King, who has drawn wide praise for running a health clinic in Bayou La Batre.


Officials with Burger King said Benjamin served on a nutritional advisory panel that was formed last year during "ongoing efforts to promote balanced diets and active lifestyle choices."

Burger King and other fast-food chains have has been under pressure in recent years to offer healthier meals amid concerns over the role of fast food in obesity.

Vicki Rivas-Vazquez, a spokeswoman for the Department of Health and Human Services, said Benjamin would resign her position from Burger King upon Senate confirmation. Benjamin also will recuse herself from any matters involving Burger King for the next two years as part of the Obama administration's ethics pledge, she said.

Benjamin, a 52-year-old Daphne native, was the first black woman and the first doctor under age 40 elected to the American Medical Association's board of trustees.

(Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)



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They need more salt.

Clay - I hear ya.  I don’t know the doctor, but I am sure she is a nice person.  The whole whopper/surgeon general thing just paints a funny picture in my mind. lol

Newt is a good idea man, but I don’t see him in a high ranking public office.  Very, very smart guy though and he has some really good ideas.

I’m not a far right-wing nut that believes the earth is flat, but my values are definitely on the conservative side of center, morally and fiscally.  I also think we are being sold a bill of goods by the salesman-in-chief!

and i just like dr benjamin and wish her well in her endeavors. when i hear people beating her up like a lot have makes me want to defend her more.she is an accomplished young woman, and i enjoyed working around her all those years ago at south when we were younger, healthier, and thinner.

the significane was to your post about people saying one thing while doing another, talking about obama smokeing and talking about not smkoking, and the dr talking about obesity with a whopper in her hand. i thought newt criticizing clinton while in the midst of is own extrmarital affair and while having a similar sleeze history was ironic as well and fit in with your other two examples. thats all. ALL of em do it. where’s your palin party, we need some new choices. you and i think alike on about 70% of the issues you comment on, if we could find a candidate that did the same i would vote for them. but the too far swings in either direction the newts, limbaughs, frankens, drive me crazy.

Heck, I’m gonna go eat a whopper everyday now that the surgeon general says its ok!  Maybe the angry-whopper was her idea, I’m sure adding jalepenos to teh burger makes it healthier.  LOL!!!!!!!!!!!

I don’t see the significance of that old story, unless you are going to tell me Gingrich has been flippin’ burgers at Burger King, while he puts together his American Solutions tour.

http://www.americansolutions.com/

bob, irony, like when newt gingrich chastised bill clinton for adultry right after climbing off his 6 year mistess?

“I drew a line in my mind that said, ‘Even though I run the risk of being deeply embarrassed, and even though at a purely personal level I am not rendering judgment on another human being, as a leader of the government trying to uphold the rule of law, I have no choice except to move forward and say that you cannot accept … perjury in your highest officials.”

Back in 1994, when Gingrich became Speaker, spouting family values rhetoric, Democrats were livid, because everyone on Capitol Hill knew that Gingrich was dating Calista Bisek, a Congressional aide who was 23 years younger.
Gingrich is now going through his second divorce. Lawyers for his estranged second wife, Marianne, have won the right to depose Calista Bisek

now THATS irony.

That’s not as interesting.  cheese

I guess people are overlooking the fact that she was on an advisory board to promote balanced diets and active lifestyle choices, not how to add extra calories to a Whopper.

Obama lectures us about smoking right after he has a smoke.  Now this woman will lecture us about obesity with a Whopper in one hand and a biggie fry in the other!  There is some irony in this .....

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