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| *Women health>>>Obesity |
Do you think it's the governments responsibility to make changes to help fight obesity in America? |
I'm not sure how I feel about the issue and although obesity is a major problem, I don't understand why resturants should be forced to change their menus and ways of cooking because of it. People have a choice to eat what they want..If they choose to eat unhealthy than they pay the consequences for it. Obesity is a personal problem and I don't believe that restaurants should be held accountable for people choosing to eat badly. The problem is that 90% of restaurants do not disclose what they are putting into your food. I think what New York City did was quite a good thing, it really got everyone thinking about their food. Do we need to go to that extreme? Perhaps not, but there does need to be a way for people to know what they are consuming. A possible solution would be for nutrition labels on menus, so you can choose what to eat. I choose not to eat anything that contains Partially Hydrogenated Oils and/or High Fructose Corn Syrup but when I go out to eat that information is unavailable. Did you know that two years ago Denmark banned trans fat? No one even misses it now. One problem with todays society is that there is no personal accountability. Everything is someone elses fault. Look at the lawsuits for smoking, guns, etc. I've even seen cases where a jetski maker was sued because someone was killed while riding one. The person was underage and an attorney claimed that if there had been a large warning that anyone under the age of 14 should not operate the machine, then the kid would not have died. I think the government has a responsibility to regulate hazardous substances. Trans fats are hazardous to health and they are only used in food because they are cheaper than healthy oils. Manufactures will do anything they can to make profits without any regard to the health of consumers UNLESS governments regulate effectively. So yes it is governments responsibility. No, its your body and if you want to make bad choices, then it should be all up to you. I don't think that restuarants should be forced to change their menus, but at least offer alternatives. I don't think it's the responsibility of the gov't to control what people are eating and how much. Nobody is holding these obese gluttons at gunpoint and forcing them to consume unhealthy foods in large portions. Even if trans-fats are universally banned, the gluttons ands pigs of the world will still find ways to eat unhealthy foods and will still be dropping dead of heart disease and diabetes. I totally agree with you. The government has no say in what Americans CHOOSE to eat and should not get involved or waste their time or money on this. There are many healthy Americans out there and we are healthy because we choose to eat healthy and watch our portions, no one can babysit us. |
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