Guns kill people, and...food makes people fat? Continued illogic.

[Manedwolf]

From AP. This study was paid for by your taxpayer money, and, yes, they want to blame restaurants and encourage them to reduce portion sizes.

Because PEOPLE CAN'T PUT DOWN THE FREAKING FORK, apparently!

And yes, this does have to do with guns, because it's the same logic that causes them to blame guns for deaths, not criminals.

Whatever happened to personal responsibility?

AP
Updated: 3:29 p.m. ET June 2, 2006

WASHINGTON - Those heaping portions at restaurants — and doggie bags for the leftovers — may be a thing of the past, if health officials get their way.

The government is trying to enlist the help of the nation’s eateries in fighting obesity. One of the first things on their list: cutting portion sizes.

With burgers, fries and pizza the Top 3 eating-out favorites in this country, restaurants are in a prime position to help improve people’s diets and combat obesity. At least that’s what is recommended in a government-commissioned report released Friday.

The report, requested and funded by the Food and Drug Administration, lays out ways to help people manage their intake of calories from the growing number of meals prepared away from home, including at the nation’s nearly 900,000 restaurants and other establishments that serve food.

“We must take a serious look at the impact these foods are having on our waistlines,” said Penelope Slade Royall, director of the health promotion office at the Department of Health and Human Services.

The 136-page report prepared by The Keystone Center, an education and public group based in Keystone, Colo., said Americans now consume fully one-third of their daily intake of calories outside the home. And as of 2000, the average American took in 300 more calories a day than was the case 15 years earlier, according to Agriculture Department statistics cited in the report.

Today, 64 percent of Americans are overweight, including the 30 percent who are obese, according to the report. It pegs the annual medical cost of the problem at nearly $93 billion.

Consumer advocates increasingly have heaped some of the blame on restaurant chains like McDonald’s, which bristles at the criticism while offering more salads and fruit. The report does not explicitly link dining out with the rising tide of obesity, but does cite numerous studies that suggest there is a connection.

The National Restaurant Association said the report, which it helped prepare but does not support, unfairly targeted its industry.

Full article at http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13090060/

 

[VARifleman]

So what about us high motabolism skinny guys that have to eat everything in sight to keep from passing out? Ugh...hungry again...I'll be back after my second dinner.

 

[Zundfolge]

Just more "you're too stupid to take care of yourself so mama government will do it for you" nanny statism

 

[Justin]

Awesome. So now the government wants to regulate restaurants into giving the consumer less value for his/her money.

The Center for "Science" in the Public Interest (Blech) has been advocating this sort of idiocy for years. I guess someone finally started to listen.

 

[dev_null]

"What about Elevenses?" - Peregrin Took

 

[cosine]

It's called personal responsibility. Get some.

 

[TallPine]

You can have my cheeseburger when you pry it from my cold dead hands.

 

[Zen21Tao]

I love it when libs want to tell us how we should live. Next they will have Ted and Patrick Kennedy telling use the drinking alcohol is bad for us. I am sick and tired of this elitest "we know better than everyone else" and "do as I say not as I do" bull$#!+. I belive Neal Boortz when he says almost half the people in the US are too stupid to live in a free society.

 

[Jeff]

This article is too vague to get any valuable information from. What does this line mean? "Those heaping portions at restaurants — and doggie bags for the leftovers — may be a thing of the past, if health officials get their way."

How would health officials control the size of portions that restaurants serve? They could dictate how healthy this and that would be, and some eateries might see their own benefit to following the advice. But even if all restaurants started following some of the advice, many places would eventually start selling larger portions again to get more business. It's called the Free Market.

Unless, of course, we are talking about legislative action. Unfortunately, I wouldn't put it past der State to do such a thing.

 

[Juna]

Just more "you're too stupid to take care of yourself so mama government will do it for you"

I couldn't have said it better myself.

The lack of personal responsibility in this country is supported by this kind of garbage. Murderers whine b/c they got picked on in school, so it must not be their fault. Then someone sues their 3rd grade teacher and the school they went to as an accessory to murder for not preventing the name calling. This kind of garbage infuriates me. Everyone is treated as a victim no matter what the crime b/c they go back 20 years to when little Bobby Jones called them ugly or fat. That's why they went on a massacre. They made them do it.

This same lack of personal responsibility is why antis proclaim that "guns kill people" and "fast food is making people fat". There's no acknowledgement of a brain inside the person's head. They're treated like a robot carrying out a program who will automatically eat the cheeseburger if it's there and who will automatically go out and shoot someone because they own a gun.

The legal system in this country frequently makes me want to for creating and supporting this kind of .

 

[Standing Wolf]

“We must take a serious look at the impact these foods are having on our waistlines,” said Penelope Slade Royall, director of the health promotion office at the Department of Health and Human Services.

The founding fathers would weep.