The excuse that they're 'helping' people with obesity is complete bullshit. If a 'fat person' can't eat out, they'll just go home and do it on their own, or hit up the fast food joints until those get resitrictions put on them as well.
If they want to control obesity through the food industry, than the restrictions need to be put on the industry's side--better quality fresh food, better alternatives to the oils and over salting, a return to reasonable portions (do away with the supersize, for god's sake). Yeah, it'll cost the consumer more, but I tnink in all honesty, that's a better way to 'keep' obese folks from eating out as much, anyway. Restaurant food is really no better for you than fast food, and like fast food, should be a treat. And like all treats. if you have the money for it (and the attendant possibility of screwing your life uop because of it), so be it.
It's up to people to police themselves, really. Sure, if you have a loved one who is starving themselves to death, or eating themselves to death, or drimking themselves to death, etc, then yeah, as a loved one (or, to a limited extebt, a doctor of the suffering person), you have some right to get into that person's life and say something and/or do something about the situation.
But it isn't the place of government or total strangers to decide if you need that kind of 'help'.
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carisma_sensei
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Date: 2008-02-05 07:06 pm (UTC)The excuse that they're 'helping' people with obesity is complete bullshit. If a 'fat person' can't eat out, they'll just go home and do it on their own, or hit up the fast food joints until those get resitrictions put on them as well.
If they want to control obesity through the food industry, than the restrictions need to be put on the industry's side--better quality fresh food, better alternatives to the oils and over salting, a return to reasonable portions (do away with the supersize, for god's sake). Yeah, it'll cost the consumer more, but I tnink in all honesty, that's a better way to 'keep' obese folks from eating out as much, anyway. Restaurant food is really no better for you than fast food, and like fast food, should be a treat. And like all treats. if you have the money for it (and the attendant possibility of screwing your life uop because of it), so be it.
It's up to people to police themselves, really. Sure, if you have a loved one who is starving themselves to death, or eating themselves to death, or drimking themselves to death, etc, then yeah, as a loved one (or, to a limited extebt, a doctor of the suffering person), you have some right to get into that person's life and say something and/or do something about the situation.
But it isn't the place of government or total strangers to decide if you need that kind of 'help'.