Posted on 09/23/2002 8:20:34 AM PDT by Asmodeus
(Albany-AP, September 21, 2002) Low fat New Yorkers might be healthier for the state budget. This week, the governor signed the Obesity Prevention Act into law. It asks the Health Department to find ways to help New Yorkers get healthier, reduce obesity and cut the cost to the state.
Officials say two out of every ten New Yorkers, more than three million people, are obese. It's the second leading cause of preventable death after smoking, and causes illnesses from diabetes to some cancers.
The American Obesity Association says the cost of obesity to public health systems across the nation is $100 billion a year.
Fifteen other states have passed legislation on everything from childhood obesity to health awareness campaigns.
The state Health Department is expected to report its findings next June. Then legislators will put together a plan to help New Yorkers deal with their expanding waist lines.
This is just the "study", but we already know what some of the recommendations will be. We've seen the general blueprint via the tobacco laws.
I think they are already banning soft drinks, candy, and vending machines in some of the schools, though I don't know how widespread it is yet.
The government should not be taxing one person to pay for the health cost of another, so get the government out of providing health care.
a 72-year old lady was carded last week for trying to buy a cigar for her husband.
I'll never forget seeing an ancient man, leaning on a cane, being turned down for a single beer at a hockey game because he didn't have proper ID.
There was probably an ATF agent on the premise ready to bust the food vendor because his workers didn't ask every person for ID.
In other words, the Gestapo was looking over their shoulder.
From a related article: Who's making America so fat
"I never underestimate the ability of judges to come up with curious rulings," says Gifford of the Michigan Restaurant Association. "But clearly, if you sat around and listened to the average citizen talk about this (Barber) lawsuit, they realize it for being the frivolous shot at big money that it is and we're hopeful that judges and juries will treat it accordingly."
Here, I'll help.
Hamburgers, french-fries and soft drinks; don't they sell those in grocery stores as well as in restaurants? There are many companies that manufacture those products. Just as there are many companies that manufactured tobacco products. Lawyers attacked the tobacco manufacturers, not the retail sellers of tobacco products. Why suddenly have the fat-police going after the retail sellers/prepare rather than the manufactures? Because even the lawyers know they would be trounced by the food manufacturers. Archer Daniels Midland alone could crush all the lawyers.
Bottom line, carbohydrates stimulate overproduction of insulin that causes conversion of the carb to sugar (glucose) for use by the body. If the body does not need it immediately, it goes to fat. The body cannot make this same conversion with animal or plant fats and proteins.
Agree. The lawyers would never attack the government -- the hand that feeds them -- for advocating a bogus food pyramid.
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