Weaning Them Off Soda/Maine

The Bangor Daily News ^ | 5 July 2002 | who knows!

[SheLion]

A group of dedicated health BIG BROTHERS

[SheLion]

See? Governor King can't find money for the budget, so who is funding this hog wash??!!!

It's a wonder any of us made it this far with all the Big Brothers in Maine telling us we: aren't eating right: we drink too much: coffee is bad smoking is bad...........give me a break. These "health specialist’s have nothing better to do with their time???

[The Raven]

ping er roo

[steve50]

Millions, ever growing, put in place to fund "conditioning" groups to to control all these behaviours that aren't good for the collective. Anybody still think this is America. Libertarians or Strict Constitutionalists guys an gals, they are the only chance we have to save this nation.

[liberallarry]

Well, since you're so opposed to "Big Brother" you no doubt support selling pornography and drugs to school kids?

In case you hadn't noticed we have a terrible problem with obesity and a health care system that's failing. What do you propose to do about that? Nothing?

Get real. Abandon your ideological blinders.

[Maceman]

When I was a boy in school, the big issue in every student election was a promise to get soda machines into the school. It never happened, even though candidates for student government would inevitably promise it in their campaign speeches.

From 1st grade through high school, 1955-1968, no public school in my town (Scarsdale, NY) ever saw a soda machine.

I'm surprised to hear that they have since become so ubiquitous that the health nazis are trying to get them removed.

[ResistorSister]

I stopped drinking pop/diet pop about three weeks ago and I have dropped six pounds.

Also, for years, I've been plagued with Migraine Headaches...since I've stopped drinking pop...I have not had a single Migraine (of course...I will have to give it a few months before I make a REAL claim that the debilitating headaches were connected with soda pop.)

If BIG BROTHERS help kids take off extra weight - then it is a good thing.

[ECM]

Well, if people would practice a modicum of self-control, maybe there wouldn't be an obesity problem?

[SheLion]

Well, since you're so opposed to "Big Brother" you no doubt support selling pornography and drugs to school kids?

Your totally disgusting and WAY off the mark here.

I'm not saying "it's a good thing" to keep junk food in schools. What I AM saying that since vending machines have been in schools for several years, and since Big Government recently came out against obesity, now the "health officials" are jumping on the band wagon!

Why didn't our health officials think about this beFORE Big Government stepped in. By-the-way, you do not know me, and I resent you using my name in the same sentence as porn. Your a jerk.

[maxwell]

These "health specialist’s have nothing better to do with their time???

Took the words right outta my mouth, chickie... People don't need to have this crap jammed down their noses. Folks have a pretty good general idea about what's healthy to eat and what ain't. I just choose to ignore it most of the time. ;)

[ozone1]

Here's a link to the site where the money's coming from
http://www.mainecshp.com/about us.html

[Mudboy Slim]

"People don't need to have this crap jammed down their noses."

At least they aren't promoting a national policy, but that can't be far down the road...MUD

[Trust but Verify]

How do you stand living in Maine? I was appalled at some of the nit-picky laws and ordinances I observed while visiting a while back.

[maxwell]

Well, since you're so opposed to "Big Brother" you no doubt support selling pornography and drugs to school kids?

WTF? What the hell does this have to do with anything?

In case you hadn't noticed we have a terrible problem with obesity and a health care system that's failing.

The two are correlated?

What do you propose to do about that? Nothing?

Damn straight. If folks wanna live heavy, that's their prerogative.

Get real. Abandon your ideological blinders.

What about YOUR ideological blinders, dude? You gonna line everybody in the country up and dole out their tofu and string bean soup for the day?

[Biblebelter]

There is a dirty little secret here. Someone is making big money with these vending machines. Often it is a fund under the principal's control. Not that the money is going into his pocket, but it is under his control and gives him power to spend the money pretty much at his whim. I am not against vending machines on a high school campus, but there should be some common sense involved in how many and what products they sell. In some schools the vending machines are exploitive of a captive audience, in order for some bureaucrat to accumulate a slush fund which gives him petty political power in a system in which what best serves the student is usually the last priority.

[iconoclast]

the big issue in every student election was a promise to get soda machines into the school. It never happened

Parents and administrators were responsible adults then ... knew what the word no meant and how to say it.

[SheLion]

Well, if people would practice a modicum of self-control, maybe there wouldn't be an obesity problem?

Thank you! me thinks that liberallarry is either:

a: works for Bangor Daily News or:

b: is one of the "health specialists" the article refers too.

hehe

[SheLion]

Thank you, ozone. Very interesting.

[SheLion]

How do you stand living in Maine? I was appalled at some of the nit-picky laws and ordinances I observed while visiting a while back.

Well, ourside of the Maine Government, it's a wonderful state. But there are WAY too many nannies here. I hate that! They want to control everyone's life and it makes me want to vomit.

Plus, it's a DemocRAT run state. What does THAT tell you!

[A Ruckus of Dogs]

People don't need to have this crap jammed down their noses. Folks have a pretty good general idea about what's healthy to eat and what ain't.

ADULTs know what's healthy and what isn't. Children generally don't. Obesity is getting to be a serious problem with kids. With kids sitting in a government school all day I see nothing wrong with the government wanting to remove access to junk food and provide healthier lunches than hot dogs and tacos.