Junk Food Ban/Regulation

[Michael-5]

dsgrue3 said:

Michael-5 said:

dsgrue3 said:
Absolutely not.

PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY

VEGETA!!!!!

With 40% of Americans obese, they are not taking responsibility for themselves. Plus you don't have that much control of what you eat, if every pop and fast food producer adds salt to their drinks to keep you thirsty, how can you avoid that? Are you going to import your pop from Europe at an expensive cost, or make your own pop at home?

Regulations are designed so that big corporations like Coka-Cola don't abuse you. This is why FHCS is banned in Europe, and this is why not only does their pop taste better, but it's better for you to. So you can still make the personal decision to drink tons of pop, but you enjoy it more there and see leass of a health consequence.

 

Let's get one thing straight before moving on since your stats aren't accurate.

Top 10 countries by Obesity rate:

1. United States - 33.8%

2. Mexico - 30%

3. New Zealand - 26.5%

4. Chile - 25.1%

5. Australia - 24.6%

6. Canada - 24.2%

7. United Kingdom - 23%

8. Ireland - 23%

9. Luxembourg - 22.1%

10. Finland - 20.2%

Source

 

 

No food in moderation is bad for you. Not even HFCS or fast food. I don't drink regular soda, my parents always purchased diet so I've continued to consume that as an adult. You might as well suggest the government limits how many hours of television we can watch since it promotes laziness which contributes to obesity. It's just silly.

People need to be held accountable for their own actions. And hey, maybe they want to be obese? Why is it in the interest of the government?

Those values are close, but not right. Here I looked up the corrent values, this link is to the US goverment's World Factbook.

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2228rank.html

USA - 33.9%
Mexico - 23.6%
Canada - 23.1%
France - 16.9%
Finland - 15.7%
Germany - 12.9%
Italy - 9.8%
Romania - 8.6%
South Korea - 3.2%
Japan - 3.1%

Diet soda still has a lot of salt, and aspartame, a known carcinogen.

YEs everything in Moderation is okay, even arsenic. You won't die if you have a little, but why have it at all? Wouldn't you rather have pop without salt if you had the option?

HFCS is actually really bad for the body because the body doesn't recognize it as a sugar. It's the leading cause of type 2 diabetes because companies put tons of the stuff in pop and candy, and since our body doesn't recognize it as a sugar, our body's will still ask for more sugar (we need some sugar for energy).

I'm not saying ban products, it's peoples choices on what they consume, but control what's in it. The government already controls television by not allowing porn play on public tv channels in the daytime, and Adult rated shows being forced to play late night. That's a good thing, it makes TV better for the most of us.

Let's confine this discussion to salt, since redulating salt doesn't affect food prices. Regulating salt in our food will not increase or decrease the price of food, salt is added to make you thirsty and buy a pop, or a drink. So why have not regulate it? This follows the same logic as banning lead in out fuel, not only is lead bad for the environment, but exposure to youth does cause irregular brain formation. Or this follows the same logic that commercials cannot be more then 1/3rd the total air time of the show (we limit commercials, why not limit salt?).