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Obama with his budget director Jeffrey Zients in the White House Rose Garden today. J.David Ake/AP

Obama unveils $3.8 trillion budget, Republicans call it a 'left wing wish list'

The budget blueprint will never become reality but marks White House’s entry into what is likely to be another intense showdown over spending cuts and taxes with Republicans in Washington.

TO REPUBLICAN MOCKERY, President Barack Obama rolled out a $3.77 trillion (€2.8 trillion) budget today that laid out his battle lines in a new fiscal showdown in Washington but irked some liberal allies.

Obama said his blueprint for fiscal year 2014 would shield the middle class by closing tax loopholes that help the rich, would grow the economy, cut the deficit, train future American workers and protect seniors.

“For years, the debate in this town has raged between reducing our deficits at all costs and making the investments necessary to grow our economy,” Obama said on an unseasonably warm morning in the White House Rose Garden.

“This budget answers that argument, because we can do both. We can grow our economy, and shrink our deficits.” Republicans however immediately rejected Obama’s plans. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell branded them as a “left wing wish list.”

House Speaker John Boehner, who has already passed a Republican budget that slashes spending, warned that Obama had already made life tough enough on the rich, adding: “We don’t need to be raising taxes on the American people.”

Obama’s spending plan for 2014 is in many ways an academic exercise, given that it has no chance of being fully enacted in stalemated Washington.

Showdown

But it will stand as his entry in the latest fast-building showdown pitching the president’s plan to hike taxes on the most well off against Republican plans to slash government spending with no new revenues.

“We don’t view this budget as a starting point. This is an offer where the president came more than half way towards the Republicans in an attempt to get a fiscal deal,” said a senior White House official.

“Are Republicans going to be willing to come to us?” the official asked, ahead of the unveiling of the budget at a time hope has faded for a “grand bargain” deal on the deficit between Obamaand Republicans.

The blueprint included one key concession to Republicans, which has already angered elements of Obama’s liberal Democratic base.

Obama signaled he is ready to modify some cherished entitlement social programs, by adjusting cost of living adjustments that could trim benefits for some senior citizens.

The move, ahead of a second dinner between Obama and Republicans at the White House later today, was intended to try to lure some support for cross party budget and deficit talks.

The White House is billing the budget as a document which proves that the need to cut voluminous deficits does not need to be achieved by savage cuts in government spending and social programs envisaged by Republicans.

Deficit reduction

Officials say the plan includes $1.8 trillion of deficit reduction over 10 years and would raise $580 billion dollars in new revenue by curbing income tax breaks for the rich, without raising rates.

It would raise the tax on a pack of cigarettes from $1.01 to $1.95 per pack to finance an early childhood education scheme.

The budget would also provide $1.65 billion for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and $4 billion to allow security upgrades following the attack on the US consulate in Benghazi last September.

Republicans dispute Obama’s deficit reduction figures, arguing that since the budget would dispense with $1.2 trillion in automatic spending cuts, which began in March and are known as the sequester, its real deficit reduction figure would only be $600 billion in savings.

Among measures that had already been opposed by Republicans, the Obama budget would implement the “Buffett Rule,” which would mandate that households making more than a million dollars a year pay at least 30 percent of income in taxes.

The budget foresees a deficit of $744 billion, or 4.4 per cent of GDP, in 2014 – down from a projected deficit of $973 billion this year.

Officials projected that the shortfall would reach 2.8 per cent of GDP by 2016 and 1.7 per cent by 2023. The plan assumes unemployment will average 7.2 per cent next year, down from the current 7.6 per cent.

Economic growth meanwhile is predicted to pick up to 3.2 percent next year, from 2.3 percent this year.

The White House says that the plan represents more than two dollars in spending cuts for every one dollar of new revenue accrued from closing tax loopholes.

It also includes $400 billion in health savings that administration officials say could be found by cracking down on fraud.

Read: Obama slams Republicans for gun reform ‘stunts’

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    Mute tomeenoldstock
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    Aug 25th 2015, 6:53 PM

    That article is way too long to bother reading. I skipped to the comments and I think I made the right choice.

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    Aug 25th 2015, 8:39 PM

    A nutritionist? Im also a nutritionist!

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    Aug 25th 2015, 10:41 PM

    I too didn’t read the article as she is a nobody in my eyes/ life! Ohh Look…..Paint drying!!

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    Mute Mary Fbaccount
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    Aug 25th 2015, 10:48 PM

    Agree.. but I recently discovered http://deliciouslyella.com/philosophy/about/ so thought I’d give this article a chance. What a crock..

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    Aug 26th 2015, 2:44 AM

    How come when she won miss world, none of the other contestants seemed too bothered that her oul fella was a judge? Now I’m not sayin nuttin..

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    Aug 26th 2015, 11:47 PM

    He wasn’t a judge. But many of those on the panel, as in the judges, were his mates. And he was heavily involved in making sure his daughter won, including how she was photographed, when, where and so on. She had a lot of people there to make sure she won, to say the least.
    Then he turned around and said ‘ it was on her own merits’.

    Shortly after her win, she came out and blamed her dad’s mistress for the original affair. Yep, his daughter blamed the other woman for ‘taking her daddy’. This despite the fact she was much younger than Chris, very young in fact, and was his nanny at the time. Her dad can’t have been too bothered…Lady in Red wasn’t written about Rosanna’s mom. It was written about the other woman. Who his wife didn’t know about at the time.

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    Aug 25th 2015, 6:33 PM

    a gluten for punishment

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    Mute MBA Tosser
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    Aug 25th 2015, 6:55 PM

    “I don’t want people to take my advice as medical advice”

    So don’t publish it.

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    Mute John B
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    Aug 25th 2015, 7:35 PM

    Steps to become a nutritionist: 1. Call yourself a nutritionist. Congratulations, you are now a nutritionist.

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    Mute Suzie Sunsine
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    Aug 25th 2015, 7:43 PM

    John b , she studied it for three years .

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    Aug 25th 2015, 8:09 PM

    “She studied Nutritional Therapy for three years at the UK-based College of Naturopathic Medicine”, well three years studying nonsense makes just as qualified as John B nutritionist except she paid for the nonsense degree.

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    Aug 26th 2015, 8:34 AM

    That’s actually an anti-qualification since she’d have been taught nonsense.

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    Mute John Weldon
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    Aug 27th 2015, 9:56 AM

    As Dara O’Briain once said – “I’m sorry, ‘herbal medicine’, “Oh, herbal medicine’s been around for thousands of years!” Indeed it has, and then we tested it all, and the stuff that worked became ‘medicine’. And the rest of it is just a nice bowl of soup and some potpourri, so knock yourselves out.”

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    Aug 25th 2015, 6:32 PM

    Go away

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    Aug 25th 2015, 7:05 PM

    Animal rights = medium, rare and well done

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    Mute John Curry
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    Aug 25th 2015, 7:06 PM

    I’m sure Rosanna had some meat

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    Mute Andy Kennedy
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    Aug 25th 2015, 7:08 PM

    Animals eat meat.

    We’re just really smart / well dressed animals.

    We eat meat,

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    Aug 25th 2015, 7:17 PM

    Mmmm…Lambs liver..

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    Mute Joe Harbison
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    Aug 25th 2015, 7:25 PM

    That Dachshund she’s pictured with probably consumes more meat than Cathal. It’s not OK for him to eat meat but it’s OK to keep a pet who does? What does she feed it? Tofu?

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    Aug 25th 2015, 7:26 PM

    Uhh oh, looks like we’ve got a new one here

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    Aug 25th 2015, 7:35 PM

    I once ate Lamb heart, slightly gamey!!

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    Aug 25th 2015, 9:16 PM

    We’re all just monkeys in shoes.

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    Aug 26th 2015, 2:33 AM

    Yes, Alan, I have seen how (at least my old man’s) sheep and chicken live. The sheep live on the mountain behind the homeplace. The chickens live in an enclosed yard (to keep the fox and mink out) and spend the night in the coop. Is it ok to slaughter and eat those?

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    Mute Anthony Lang
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    Aug 25th 2015, 6:37 PM

    Celebrities are always far more expert and well researched than mere scientists on these matters.

    Diet books are giving way to recipe books.

    Gimmicks are better than a balanced and health diet and a celebrity can advise every one in a far superior way to orthodox advice given in a tailored way to one individual.

    I hear that Rosanna is donating the entire proceeds of sale of her book to scientific research on diet and nutrition ! Ahem!

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    Mute Michael O Connell
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    Aug 25th 2015, 6:53 PM

    Here is what the physician and science writer Ben Goldacre wrote about this kind of nonsence

    “Basic, uncomplicated dietary advice is effective and promotes health. Overly complicated, confusing, tinkering nutritionism is poorly evidenced, because it’s a branch of the entertainment industry ”it’s there to make money, to create a new market for a new profession, to soup up a recipe show, to titillate, to distract us from social inequality and the real lifestyle causes of ill health, and to pander to our collective modern obsession with food. It tarnishes and undermines the meaningful research work of genuine academics studying nutrition.”

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    Mute Michael O Connell
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    Aug 25th 2015, 6:54 PM

    nonsense I mean. Obviously.

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    Mute Anthony Lang
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    Aug 25th 2015, 7:32 PM

    Spot on, Michael.

    It truly is a branch of the entertainment industry, both superficial and misleading.

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    Mute Richard III
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    Aug 25th 2015, 6:36 PM

    unnervingly full of herself

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    Mute Alan White
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    Aug 25th 2015, 6:57 PM

    Richard, I agree with you but eating meat is repulsive. The mass slaughter of cows, pigs and chicks and lambs and their horrible living conditions just so you can enjoy a burger?

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    Mute Dave Murray
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    Aug 25th 2015, 7:58 PM

    Mmmm I could go for some tender lamb chops right about now.

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    Aug 25th 2015, 8:44 PM

    oh a lamb chop would be lovely now. on payday I usually stop in the butchers for a rack of lamb or a few stakes. one of my little monthly treats.

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    Aug 25th 2015, 6:45 PM

    Read about three paragraphs and had to stop. How utterly full of themselves and delusional can one person be?

    Nutritional therapy?? Wtf is that?

    Should have done a proper dietetics degree if she wanted people to take her seriously. Her USP is that she’s also won miss world, she’s been quoted as saying. If I was on a chair I’d have fallen off it with the laughter!

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    Aug 25th 2015, 6:39 PM

    She works with people ‘in conjunction with their GP’…. Any medic who pays attention to this kind of nonsense shouldn’t be allowed to practice.

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    Aug 25th 2015, 7:12 PM

    She claims she works with people in conjunction with their GP’s–but if that’s the case, why has she been blocking doctors, the head of State research in Ireland, and many other GP’s on Twitter?
    People who have actually done their homework, rather than looking at some ridiculous scaremongering article.

    There is making comments to get attention, and then there is being dangerous, potentially fatal dangerous. How long until she starts saying vaccines cause psychological problems? Like another playboy model did?

    As for Dairy…the WHO (World Health Organization) has said that there is no cancerous risks, but excessive consumption will lead to increased intakes of fats. And an increase in fat, no matter the source, is not good for anyone.

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    Aug 25th 2015, 7:28 PM

    This is the person who married Richard Quirke’s son? Eating meat Baaad, enjoying a jet-set lifestyle on the proceeds of gambling addiction really, really Goood.
    I’d have more interest in the opinion of the avocado she’s holding.

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    Aug 25th 2015, 9:28 PM

    i’d love to send his brother into a very rough estate and try out his p*** taking then.

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    Aug 25th 2015, 11:17 PM

    He wore blackface, at one point, and was rightly hammered for it. And he got featured on Prime Time for it. Yet RTE still gave him a show… for flip sake, who won’t they put on TV.

    http://www.broadsheet.ie/2011/03/11/you-did-see-wesley-quirkes-brother-doing-blackface-on-prime-time-last-night-didnt-you/

    And don’t forget when Rosanna jetted off with a guy who was older than her dad, and who’s debt is being paid for by the people because his businesses went bust.

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    Aug 25th 2015, 6:43 PM

    A snippet from Rosanna on pizzas “I have found an excellent alternative in quinoa as a protein-packed pizza base infused with a little anti-inflammatory turmeric and antibacterial oregano”

    Jay-sis, someone pass me the puke bucket

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    Aug 25th 2015, 7:33 PM

    that girl has too much time on her hands. pineapple, raspberry and lime sorbet for breakfast? I’m lucky to get a bowl of cereal!

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    Aug 25th 2015, 6:52 PM

    she was always a pr*ck that one

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    Aug 26th 2015, 4:42 AM

    So it’s wrong to eat meat yet there’s nothing wrong with insulting someone else’s appearance? You are a joke Alan

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    Aug 26th 2015, 6:03 AM

    She’s grand boy , what you on about .

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    Aug 26th 2015, 8:38 AM

    Sticky are you going to have a word with her for calling Rosanna a “pr!ck”? Or is she entitled to her opinion and to insult people? Well then you’re a hypocrite.

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    Mute Claire B
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    Aug 25th 2015, 7:58 PM

    Seriously biased article. No evidence to back up her claims. Anecdotal at best. Are the journal afraid to challenge her? Laughed out loud at the bit where her first book draft was rejected for being too academic. I really doubt that…

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    Aug 25th 2015, 7:21 PM

    Didn’t Dara O Briain do an entire sketch on nutritionist vs Dietician? I believe a sack was involved.

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    Aug 25th 2015, 7:49 PM

    To paraphrase “Nutritionist is to dietician” as toothologist is to dentist” and she isn’t even a nutritionist she is a nutritional therapist… Tooth fairy is to toothologist……

    She is spout dangerous rubbish and she did say gluten was the bad guy linked to autism etc. As big of an idiot as she is anyone who subscribes to her rubbish and buys her book is worse.

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    Aug 25th 2015, 11:28 PM

    She’s a f#cking eijet if you ask me, which I’m sure you’re not…

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    Aug 25th 2015, 6:45 PM

    Dieting helped her radically improve her 10km race time too

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    Aug 25th 2015, 7:18 PM

    Did she ever refund the folks who sponsored her that time? Because there were genuine folks who ran that marathon, and didn’t care how sweaty, messy and tired they looked in the photos at the end of the race. They did it for a good cause, not for a photo opportunity.

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    Aug 25th 2015, 6:33 PM

    A new low!

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    Mute Donal O'Brien
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    Aug 25th 2015, 7:17 PM

    Because it tastes nice.

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    Mute Sarah Clifford
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    Aug 25th 2015, 7:33 PM

    because we are omnivores whether you like it or not!

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    Aug 25th 2015, 8:37 PM

    Why is it okay to eat meat? Have you ever smelled a roast beef joint cooking on a Sunday morning? That’s why. Mmmmm

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    Aug 25th 2015, 10:31 PM

    Alan, humans are predators and always have been. The only reason we are smart is because we started eating meat back in the day. Our brains grew larger and we evolved to what we are now. Also meat tastes great and frankly killing animals is what us predator humans have always done. If you think otherwise you are completly deluding yourself.

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    Aug 25th 2015, 10:43 PM

    yeah, but slaves don’t taste as nice on a BBQ as pork ribs do.

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    Aug 25th 2015, 10:56 PM

    What stage vegan are you? Do you eat anything that casts a shadow??

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    Aug 25th 2015, 11:15 PM

    To be honest Alan, I’ve never seen a healthy looking vegan!

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    Aug 26th 2015, 12:13 AM

    A veggie diet takes a lot of management and creativity. Alsn makes it sound all rosie in the garden but many veggies and vegans have serioys issues around maknutritiin due to lack of B13, iron and calcium. I visited a dietician recently and she said many of the veggies and vegans she works with are generally unhealthy and often overweight due to overreliance on carbs and diets high in saturated fat. I find being veggie difficult but its my choice and its the majority of peoples choice to eat meat and I respect that. I think the welfare of food animals, mainly pigs and chickens, could certainly be improved but I dont think people should necessarily have to stop eating meat to improve the situation

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    Aug 26th 2015, 12:37 AM

    B12 ..clearly being veggie is effecting my spelling :-)

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    Aug 26th 2015, 7:41 AM

    Alan are you really comparing eating meat to rape? are you actually serious? have a word with yourself

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    Aug 25th 2015, 6:41 PM

    When not facing the glare of a camera- also known as jumping in front of anything that might be a camera. She’d jump under a car with a reverse camera to get on a screen ….

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    Aug 25th 2015, 7:00 PM

    She lives in her own little world that one

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    Aug 25th 2015, 7:01 PM

    Sick of new found foodies and blogger and Instagram pictures of people breakfast ! Now Rosie is added to the mix …great

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    Aug 25th 2015, 9:24 PM

    they live off Smoothie makers, then work from there. Yea Roz got there first.

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    Aug 25th 2015, 6:39 PM

    Utter tripe.

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    Aug 25th 2015, 6:52 PM

    Utterly wrong, Vegan’s can’t eat tripe, tripe is meat. Now that I think of eat can they …………..

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    Aug 25th 2015, 8:10 PM

    “whether it’s to balance your hormones, or clear up your skin, or give you a smoother complexion” – hard to see if her gimmicks working under all that foundation.

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    Aug 25th 2015, 8:51 PM

    Roseanna’s gas, she preaches all about being vegan, and then herself and Wes promote Dominoes, a company known for not giving a fek about the welfare of the animals that end up in its meat products

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    Aug 25th 2015, 6:37 PM

    Yeah, don’t worry about it. If you told me the grass was green, I’d still check.

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    Aug 25th 2015, 6:49 PM

    There’s a web site devoted to keeping track of how many people’s deaths that other medical genius, the ex-Playboy model, Jenny McCarthy, has been responsible for. It’s up to over 9,000 preventable deaths and is http://www.jennymccarthybodycount.com/Anti-Vaccine_Body_Count/Preventable_Deaths.html

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    Aug 25th 2015, 7:58 PM

    When the pressure was on her, she really ran the other direction…and started saying she was never against vaccines. One of the doctors she supported, or who supported her, Jeffrey Bradstreet, was not only a hack, but was also involved in criminal activities. A few months back, he committed suicide, this following a raid on his clinic by the Federal states authority, and discoveries that he was involved in some dodgy alternative medicines. Some of these were used in his clinic, and one of the clinics linked to him had killed 5 people through the use of a ‘wonder’ drug called GcMAF, which was useless.
    Sadly, McCarthy is not the lone loon. She got Jim Carrey involved too. The guy who called a California governor ‘ corporate fascist’ because he has signed a bill into law that requires parents to get their kids vaccinated in order to go to school. Carrey then posted an image of a child that has autism and TB, and blamed it on vaccines. Well, the kid’s mother was none too happy. That image was a private one, she loves her child, and, she stated, that the child had autism and TB before his vaccines. And she wanted carry to take down that image.

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    Aug 25th 2015, 6:50 PM

    Pineapple, raspberry and lime for breakfast?!? Sweet sweet SWEET jeebus but NOOOO!

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    Aug 25th 2015, 7:37 PM

    I’d rather take nutritional advice from our spaniel than from her.What a load of drivel.

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    Aug 25th 2015, 8:11 PM

    “Model and Nutritionist ” – would you ask me wrinkly arse

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    Aug 25th 2015, 6:52 PM

    dont worry love we wont

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    Mute Ciarán Kelly
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    Aug 25th 2015, 7:27 PM

    Glad she recognises that as a nutritionist she’s not medically qualified. Bad Science and Trick or Treatment should be compulsory reading in schools. Need more awareness of sensible dietary advice as opposed to sensationalist non-science from nutritionalists who can put lives in danger by suggesting alternatives to proper medicine. A famous tech giant and carrot juice to cure his cancer are a common example.

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    Aug 25th 2015, 8:15 PM

    Was that Steve Jobs, with the carrot juice? He actually did use conventional medicine (chemo, radiation treatment) as well as some alternative remedies, and experimental (still being researched, by the medical community) treatments that were showing positive results, coupled with a change in diet. Unfortunately, he had Pancreatic Cancer. The survival rate for that disease is absolutely crap poor. The 5 year survival rate is 6 percent of those with the disease, and possibly much less. Jobs, crazily, managed to live 7 years. (And no, that’s not down to carrot juice). Unfortunately, due to the location of the disease, he needed a liver transplant, as it spread to his liver. The choice of getting a liver transplant is not recommended for the disease (due to the immuno-suppressant drugs) and the toll it takes on the body…but then again, one’s damned if they do, damned if they don’t with Pancreatic cancer.

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    Aug 25th 2015, 10:38 PM

    Please don’t confuse Rosanna’s title of ‘Nutritional Therapist’ to that of a real Nutritional Scientist.

    Nutritional Sc spend 4 years in college to qualify with a BSc (Hons), courses are over 500 CAO points this year.

    Courses like Rosanna’s are an insult to these students who work really hard to get their degree.

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    Aug 25th 2015, 7:48 PM

    Sometimes an article could be a bit to long!

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    Aug 25th 2015, 9:23 PM

    She has also claimed that gluten is a causative factor in schizophrenia, arthritis and autism. Based in research? Please! Awful to mislead and scaremongering like that. Ignoramus.

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    Mute Thomas Mac
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    Aug 25th 2015, 7:23 PM

    She’s made from terrible stock herself

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    Aug 25th 2015, 8:13 PM

    Can’t stand her! She’s not even attractive

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    Aug 25th 2015, 9:26 PM

    not many do, a pain in the ____.

    i wonder how much was paid in to this newsfeed? too long, skimmed it. wasn’t aware Griffiths did this class either.

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    Mute Niall Quinoa
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    Aug 25th 2015, 9:31 PM

    How about asking a dietician or anyone else actually qualified to comment on her bullshit instead of asking her for more propaganda?

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    Aug 25th 2015, 10:46 PM

    A Nutritionist is to a Dietician as a Toothologist is to a Dentist.

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    Aug 25th 2015, 7:36 PM

    Bacon gives me a Lardon

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    Aug 25th 2015, 6:56 PM

    news how??

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    Aug 26th 2015, 12:15 AM

    I’ve never seen a longer article in The Journal did she pay you?

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    Aug 25th 2015, 7:39 PM

    I think she’s really slimmed down on her new diet, I’ve been a massive fan of hers for years and think she looks really good in an off the shoulder ensemble with matching shoes. coupled with her thirst for humanitarian works and sensible approach to life truly she’s a great ambassador for Ireland.

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    Aug 25th 2015, 7:47 PM

    What has she done to deserve your adoration?

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    Aug 25th 2015, 8:40 PM

    She’s a cun…

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    Mute Sean Baylon
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    Aug 25th 2015, 7:48 PM

    If I pay her €60 can I take her advice as medical??

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    Aug 26th 2015, 12:52 AM

    She’s a nobody, trying to sell a book in order to earn a crust, the fools are the ones who buy her book.

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    Aug 25th 2015, 10:54 PM

    She will be inspecting people’s poop next…

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    Aug 26th 2015, 8:44 AM

    The absolute state of the length of this gushing, propaganda-filled article.

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    Aug 26th 2015, 8:46 AM

    Tell her to remove the chemicals on her face and then we will see how healthy she is,if people have issues seek medical advice always

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    Aug 26th 2015, 12:20 AM

    Fair play to her. I cannot fathom all the begrudgrey comments on here. She has done more good for for fantastic causes than most the commentators on here could ever dream of. Good luck to her.

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    Aug 26th 2015, 4:10 PM

    “She has done more good for for fantastic causes”
    She’s actively spreading false but dangerous advice on the basis of a degree in bullshitology.

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    Aug 25th 2015, 7:21 PM

    I hope it has pictures in it that’d be great!

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    Aug 27th 2015, 10:57 PM

    Rosanna Davison: “I don’t want people to take my advice as medical advice” … Don’t worry love. They won’t.

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    Aug 25th 2015, 10:59 PM

    I

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    Aug 26th 2015, 12:15 PM

    Empty as an eggshell ! Jaysus ! She cast a shame of the real nutritionists and dieticians … The Bord of Dieticians should do something about that. It’s pure usurpation of professional title “bought” in a pseudo-scientific college… Thanks to the Journal for propaganding this non-sense ! People are not fools and we’re all tired of that famewh@re !

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