This backwards, corporate-driven,culture of America disgusts and frightens me! I am actually frightened when I see kids who are younger than me and yet weigh more! It scares me to death to think that our society, with the massive amount of advertisement to eat, is having a massive effect that is shocking when seen in statistics but even more terrifying when you see it on the streets. Fast-food chains are now advertising that their stores stay open late or 24/7 such as Taco Bell which prompts you to 'curb your late night hunger with Fourthmeal!' We were not meant to eat at night which explains why we expend only 200 calories a night.
Food Corporations are sickening! Americans are fatter and more unhealthy because we are being trained to think that we need more food in a day and larger portions in each of those sittings!
DOWN WITH McDONALDS, TACO BELL, BURGER KING, WENDY'S and ALL THE REST!
A proposed suggestion to help curb people's appetites for the nasty fatty, greasy food they are taking in is to post Caloric counts next to the name and price on the item for all people to see. But do these people who are addicted to nasty foods actually care and are people educated enough to realize what they are being shown?
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NYC, I think, is requiring restaurants to make available nutrition information about the foods they prepare.
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I think it's a good thing to try but I'm wondering if it will help any.... I know it would deter me.
Wow. What an entry. Your title has little to do with your content, and your content is soft, incorrect, poorly written, and made me chuckle. I mean, the whole "fat people are idiots" stance? Really?
So, is it America's evil corporate culture that is to blame for the obesity epidemic? Or perhaps these moronic fatties you keep going on about (ooh, frightening...) are bringing this crisis on themselves? I couldn't really tell what your stance was, besides the whole "fat people frighten me" position. Pick a side and back it up with real evidence.
Get down off your pedestal, read a newspaper, brush up on your grammar, and formulate a coherent, original opinion.
Thank you ma'am. More constructive criticism would have helped but that's fine.
I read your review, then read the paper, and your "fat people are idiots" and "fat people frighten me" which you quoted, were no where in the writing... yet you quoted them like they are, you could us some coherence yourself... And he does pick a side, the side opposite these fast food corporations. He is trying to keep objective by questioning a side on who is to blame. That is to leave it up to you to decide and leave an opinion or a fact on.
The real evidence is all the fat people and all the heart attacks.
When you drive by a fast food joint, you smell grease, and you think you smell their food, and it because there is soo much of their grease in their food that all the food there tastes like it.
Also these corporations are to blame for targeting children, who a lot of parents let choose where the family goes to eat, as some can be picky eaters.
Parents need to not subject their kids to this kind of food, we know, no coffee, tobacco, or certain pills, for kids under a certain age, as it can effect growth, Yet you feed them lard soaked in grease and there is no public post "do not feed to kids under __ age" as there should be.
Also, if you're gonna slaughter some innocent animal, perpare him so he can give some kind of nutrition with his corpse, so more don't need to be killed to equate to what the nutrition should be. McDs is a pretty vile POS restaurant which needs to change their product and image before they get taken to congress on practices...
anyways..
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Everything, you have done, and will do, is chemically predisposed by matter, even the fact you are reading this message. You make no choices, only perceive a given reality.
Your solution to make companies post the nutritional content of their food reminds me of a meeting I sat in on with a state legislator and a lobbyist for Jack-in-the-Box. They said it's not practical to write the caloric makeup of their food on the menus because it would cause confusion amongst customers who would mistake the calories for the price or vice-versa.
Needless to say, the assemblymember thought it was bullshit.
The main reason people are obese is we have so much technology that there is no need to go out and play outside. people don't want to exercise anymore or go outside and play with their kids. Also obesity runs in families. If a mom and dad is obese than more than likely the child will be. We are placing alot of emphasis on food but the real issue is that parents are just giving in and not playing outside with their children like they used to. Parents can say no to the fast food. I was limited on fast food when I was younger and all kids should be. This has helped me to appreciate home cooked meals rather than eating out. It is mainly the parent's faults that kids are becoming obese not just because we have alot avaliable to us.
Something people should know about:
http://www.progressiveu.org/032913-lupus-uncureable-wait-what
I agree with you. The food is the issue that gets me fired up though. When obesity runs in families it needs to be treated like when diabetes runs in a family. You think, well I have this problem. I should watch my child carefully to make sure they stay healthy. Especially during the critical years of development. Who wants to be slowed down by excessive body mass as a kid?
I had to learn to love homecooked food. I know some people who still only eat what comes out of the microwave and their freezer. Eating and living that way makes me want to vomit.
I can really understand how difficult it would be for a parent who has an issue with obesity and eating to help their kids with the same problems. In some situations I think the parents own problem could help make them more ambitious about their child's health but in other circumstances it could only make it harder for them. It's a very, very tricky situation.