Nothing the MSM loves more than carrying water for Team Obama.

(USA Today) — Several top nutrition experts salute first lady Michelle Obama for enjoying a hamburger and fries occasionally as she did on Monday.

Obama, who has been pushing healthy eating with her national Let’s Move campaign to fight childhood obesity, ordered a burger, fries, chocolate shake and a Diet Coke at lunch on Monday at the newly opened Washington Shake Shack diner, according to The Washington Post. If she ate the entire meal, she may have consumed 1,500 calories or more, which is the amount some women should eat for the entire day.

Her press office isn’t commenting on the lunch, but several nutrition experts applaud Obama’s example of balance and moderation.

“It’s perfectly fine to indulge in your favorite foods every once in a while,” says Elizabeth Ward, a registered dietitian in Boston, and author of The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Feeding Your Baby and Toddler. “A healthy lifestyle is all about balance and inclusion, not deprivation and misery. I would have preferred a cup of fat-free milk to the diet soda, though.”

Milk shakes are a good source of calcium, but are loaded with fat and calories, Ward says. Burgers pack protein, iron and other nutrients, but tend to be high in fat, also.

Robyn Flipse, a registered dietitian in Bradley Beach, N.J., and author of Fighting the Freshman Fifteen, says, “Michelle Obama’s openness about how she eats and exercises is the most valuable nutrition news that’s been published in decades.

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