Posted on 03/30/2013 4:38:13 PM PDT by neverdem
March 29, 2020
The federal government today announced new regulations for buying fast food.
Starting June 1, upon entering a national fast food chain restaurant or before ordering via a drive-thru each patron must undergo a Body Mass Index (BMI) analysis. The score will determine portion sizes for adults and children and restrict the options available. Scores are: underweight, normal, overweight, obese and morbidly obese. Automated tickets issued from the machines will be color coded to alert servers of a patron’s options.
If a person is obese, for example, he or she will only be able to order sugar-free drinks and meals with a combined 500 calories. Those items will be color coded on the menu to make choices easily identifiable, according to Wendy Smith, a spokesman for the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), the agency that wrote the regulations. Those who wish to speed the process may apply for wrist bands, which will allow patrons to bypass the BMI calipers. Fingerprints will also be taken at checkout to ensure that those ordering receive one portion.
Cindy Dvorak, the former head of DHHS and CEO of Calipers for Change, the company chosen by the government to launch the new program said, “Our devices will quickly, accurately and discretely inform patrons of their fat ratio and help them take positive steps to achieve an appropriate weight and a fulfilling life.”
But not everyone is happy with the new rules. The head of industry group Chain Restaurants of America said it will be filing a federal lawsuit against the regulations on Fourteenth Amendment grounds of unequal treatment under the law.
Fast food patron Joy de Cocinar admits she needs to lose a few pounds but does not want to be stigmatized by the new rules. She plans to visit her...
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This is the sentence I would agree with most; however, I think the U.S. will collapse before 2020. The brokest nation on the face of the earth won't have the power to do such regulations.
This is BS. Fat welfare momma will get her burgers and Buckwheat can’t stop it.
This seems to be a shortsighted view of the future. If the left truly has its way there will be shortages in just about everything especially food. The North Koreans certainly don’t have an obesity problem, and I doubt they have many regs governing calorie intake and BMI.
Well, at least it might hold down the cost of Obamacare. ;-)
How about this?
You pay with your own money, you order anything you want, no questions asked.
You pay with food stamps, your choices are limited to diet drinks, milk, salad, and fruit.
“I would like to extend my sympathy to these latest targets of the FedMob
nannies. But I’m a smoker so ... drop and give Uncle Sam ten.”
If they are going to discriminate against smokers (which IS the plan), I’m going to have a major problem paying for the treatment of 300 pound diabetics, people who live on Cheeze-Its and beer, drug addicts, AIDS/STD patients who acquired the disease from being promiscuous, skydivers who get hurt, people who drive drunk, without seat belts, people injured playing sports...where will this end??
“You pay with food stamps, your choices are limited to diet drinks, milk, salad, and fruit.”
I have a fundamental problem understanding why this is somehow not “fair”. Liberals want society to be “fair”...right? How come no one cares about “fairness” to taxpayers?
Those were the days, huh?
Alas, seemingly gone forever; America has become a nation of wimps and freeloaders.
ObamaCare Coming to a Public School Near You May 12, 2012Well, in addition to the health care “exchanges” in the states, ObamaCare has provided for health care centers to be built and run right out of your neighborhood public schools. The Obama administration is rolling out its plans to pour the millions of dollars the Democrats in Congress allocated to the law into “school-based health centers.” The law includes funds to build and run clinics to give students free diagnoses, treatment for chronic medical conditions and mental health screenings.
On Wednesday, Kathleen Sebelius announced that another $75 million in taxpayer funds is “available” to build health clinics in schools. $200 million was appropriated by Congressional Democrats for the School-Based Health Center Capital Program, and the current $75 million is the third in a series of grants available to these school-based health centers.
Why do we want our schools “tracking” our children’s health data? What happens if your child doesn’t “fit in” with the “recommendations?” Are student’s grades going to be impacted by failure to meet health “recommendations?” Could it be suggested that some parents are not meeting their parental responsibilities because their children are overweight, or not doing the required number of jumping jacks, or seem uncomfortable with the curriculum on healthy homosexual relationships?
“That is, if we have a future as America will have long collapsed before the government thinks this one up.”
Probably true...we have basically been “paying off” the irresponsible not to riot for years. No more money = riots. That’s why the big purchases of ammo recently.
A war on fat people can’t come soon enough!!!
fat people are a visual blight!!!
Community Health Needs Assessments (CHNA) RequirementsThe Community Health Needs Assessment is a provision of the Affordable Care Act. It is a requirement for all non-profit, non-governmental hospitals that file IRS Form 990; it is a public document that must be posted on a hospital’s website.
The CHNA requirements become effective starting with the first tax year beginning after March 23, 2012, and must be filed every three years.
Specific community healthcare needs and how the hospital is meeting them must be identified by the CHNA. The hospital must also develop action plans to meet the needs of the community, monitor them and report progress on their implementation.
HHS awards nearly $100 million in grants for public health and prevention priorities(From the hhs.gov website)The Affordable Care Act’s Prevention and Public Health Fund grants will support state and community efforts to fight obesity, increase HIV testing, promote tobacco quit lines, expand mental health and substance abuse programs and track, monitor and respond to disease outbreaks
$9.3 million in support of obesity biometric efforts
Six communities - all of which were part of the original 44 Communities Putting Prevention to Work (CPPW) communities funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) will divide $9.3 million in support of obesity efforts to examine change in community-level variables (such as change in use of cafeteria foods), and body mass index and related biometric measures.
“These new evaluation funds will help our country identify effective and promising obesity prevention strategies. This funding will evaluate community-level obesity prevention initiatives aimed at creating healthy environments that promote nutrition and physical activity in the places where adults and children work, eat, study and play,” said Dr. Rebecca Bunnell, the program director for the Communities Putting Prevention to Work initiative at CDC. “Preventing obesity is critical for our nation’s future and we need to make sure we are investing every obesity prevention dollar wisely.”
I think any mention of discrimination against smokers should be put in the past tense not the future tense.
It’s dated March 29, 2020
fat people are a visual blight!!!
Did you forget the sarcasm tag? If not, pardon me (and many other FReepers) for being a blight to your vision and disturbing your zen, as I'm sure you're 100% physically perfect.
...and be sure to let us know the next time you walk on water.
If keeping junk food in the food stamp program means regulating everyone else’s eating ...
Well, hey: that’s a ‘two-fer’ for the government!
The Wookie will have multiple orgasms if she reads this.
Bingo!
The excess calories will be gone soon enough.
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