New Law Seeks To Reduce Obesity

AP ^ | 21 September 2002 | AP

[FourtySeven]

Wow, what a shock that the same state that has the same city that wants to ban all smoking is now going after fat people.

Will the shocking wonders never cease? < sarcasm >

I wonder how many FReepers who deride and mock the "smoking" FReepers for getting all worked up about the anti-smoking laws are laughing at this?

Maybe some are; maybe they're thin too, so they don't care about this either. Well.........whatever....< sigh>....I guess some are comfortable with the RINO title.

[Teacher317]

Wow... now that's good analogizing!

[Lion's Cub]

Unfortunately, I've got a feeling this will go through just like it did with the Tobacco industry.

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.

[John Lenin]

I'm skinny- I want a tax cut!! (well, it was worth a try)

I'm with you on that, will we skinny people get a rebate for keeping our weight down ?

[doberville]

This is the way by which they will control the FOOD SUPPLY.
Population control, anyone?

[Eagle Eye]

Another good statist idea.

[Liberal Classic]

Very well said.

[CIB-173RDABN]

If the justification for this is because it "cost" the government money in health, I have a simpler suggestion.

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.

[Zon]

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.

[Eowyn-of-Rohan]

Gee thanks--and from a teacher yet! ;)