Posted on 09/02/2009 3:08:36 AM PDT by Cindy
Childhood Obesity Report Calls For Government Regulations to Limit Access to ‘Unhealthy’ Restaurant Chains Wednesday, September 02, 2009 By Penny Starr, Senior Staff Writer
(CNSNews.com) - A newly released report by the Institute for Medicine and the National Research Council details strategies for local governments to combat what it calls an epidemic of childhood obesity, including enacting zoning and land-use regulations that would “restrict fast food establishments near school grounds and public playgrounds.”
The report, “Local Government Actions to Prevent Childhood Obesity,” was compiled by the Committee on Childhood Obesity Prevention Actions for Local Governments, a committee of health care professionals, academics, and policy makers. The report offers nine “action strategies” for healthy eating and three “actions for increasing physical activities.”
The report, unveiled at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington on Tuesday, also advises local governments to impose higher taxes “to discourage consumption of foods and beverages that have minimal nutritional value” and to mandate that chain restaurants (those with 20 or more stores) provide caloric information on menus.
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Of course, Congress will exempt itself from this legislation so Jerrold (Moby) Nadler will still be able to stop at KFC and get his 42 piece bucket for dinner.
Let’s kill the fast food businesses and 100’s of thousand minimum wage jobs out there. That wlll increase revenues right?
I quit fast-food in March. I’m down 25 lbs without any other change in my diet.
What ratio of burgers to salads on the menu is required to avoid the ban?
If I were to agree upon any “nanny” law this may be the one, my own son is overweight but there is no fast food joint even near his school or our rural home, for inner city kids I can see a problem but its really more than that, its marketing and education, junk food is also cheap in most respects.
I am shooting at the farthest target on the line here and its the government itself and the fact of creating a passive society to rely upon the feds to house and feed them, to live for the next support check, with an apathetic country ruled my an impotent faux leader its no wonder that most of America isn’t junk food zombies, Oh wait a sec....I correct myself they voted that fool into office.
Children need to be supplied with avenues of activity that allows them to burn off excess calories, buy your sons all the lumber and tools so he can build a fort, staring young helps and currently I admire one video game platform that encourages physical actions and thats the Wii.
We need not become tofu-eaters but smart eaters, where I live in Alaska its not uncommon to gain weight during a long winter and over the years I have seen the need for at home equipment like a treadmill.
Next Christmas buy your children a need exercise machine like a climber, stationary bike or a quality treadmill.
Beats getting a lump of coal anyway.
going to go waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay out on a very old and dry limb here.
there was a time when a married woman had been taught to seriously care about the quality of the family, health, morals, and keeping finance in check... then came along FDR’s fix for our economy
each president and congress since has been more concerned in increasing taxpayers than what was good for the country
there really isn’t chauvinist bone in my body, just facts in my head
..... have at it ;-)
Yes, but you did it on your own. Big Momma Government didn’t do it for you.
Many people eat fast food without being fat (because they don’t eat that much of it) and there’s no way the government should get into controlling this area anyway.
Well they can start with Ben & Jerry’s ice cream.
Its some of thr worst health-wide made by some of the biggest uberliberals around.
The Leftwingtards proposing such a ban couldn't live it for a week.
Yep. Eventually, through "for your own good" incrimentalism, there won't be one freedom left.
Big government has to go. Enough oppression, already. What we freely choose to eat and where we choose to eat is none of their business.
where have I heard this 'for the chirun' line before ???
Come on; I mean.......honestly, anyone who hasn’t seen this thing coming is blinder than a bat! First the fast food chains, then higher and higher taxes on beef and chicken; they made the model with cigarettes and it’s an easy model to follow. Those who control the food supply control the world.
Obviously a possible way to create MORE taxes?
Of course it is, any way shape or form to swing the public herd into having no choice but to spend more to retain the perks, toys and luxury items America has grown into their everyday lifestyle.
Either we stand firm with TEA or we will be a nation that will be forced to spend half of everything or more back to the government.
With the massive lottery style spending spree Obama has been on the last oh so many months its the US that getting the bill, thats right, all of Obama joy right with our checkbooks and credit cards is starting to come back, inch by inch every day some item will creep up in taxes.
In my state Alaska our fuel tax was re-instated yesterday and went up to .09 a gal to regular here at $3.29 a gallon.
And I strongly feel upcoming will be mandatory mileage driven taxation, your vehicle will be sending out signals of how many miles you drive, and you will get taxed for that, ESPECIALLY when smart people reduce drastically the consumption of taxed pump fuel by making their own. Or CNG vehicles, I would say that is my first choice as natural gas is still reatively cheap, that is until the parade of CNG cars hit the highways and taxable fuel revenues shrink.
Its all about revenue, some revenue is needed for our local upkeep, roads and utilities but at what limit? Higher taxation will only push me in another direction and its our job to not be herded in a manner that reduces us into a third world nation.
One more suggestion: Make kids start doing chores around the house daily. That seems to be a lost practice in many American homes. I guess many parents are afraid that may be considered abuse by the nanny state.
they dont really even try to mask the bs anymore...simply punitive tax, tax, tax for my own good...
"thank you sir, may I have another ???" will be the historical footnote if we dont turn this ship around...
Instead of banning fast food why dont they focus on taking all the sythetic additives out of the food supply. High fructose corn syrup and all those other ingredients that no one in America can pronounce...FREE THE FOOD SUPPLY!
I have an idea. How about a good solid hour of PT every
school day.
Problem solved, no extra taxes needed.
Mike
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