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the2real4mafol said:

Advertising like this don't help either

Lol! That 4th meal thing was so... awkward...



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NintendoPie said:
the2real4mafol said:

Advertising like this don't help either

Lol! That 4th meal thing was so... awkward...

The target is stoners and an after drinking snack.



JayWood2010 said:

Yeah it really is sad.  I live in one of the most obese states and two things that really annoys me.  1 being every morning on my way to work I see a line at mcdonalds that is so long it actually blocks traffic on the road.  2 would be seing people make a salad and then put tons of dressing, bacon, pepperoni, cheese, croutons etc on it.  And they think it's healthy.  Might as well eat a big mac

With just the dressing the salad at Mc Donalds is the most unhealthy thing on the menu. Same with the salad at Costco. Plus most of those places use iceburg lettus in their salad, which is not healthy for you at all.



I feel ancient reading stuff like this. When I was a kid you came home from school for lunch. The school was closed between 12pm and 1:00pm. Of course schools were a lot smaller and closer by.
At high schools you brought your own lunch, the only thing available to buy was plain school milk. There were no fast food joints near the school either, 15 minute walk to the nearest supermarket.

When/why did this whole lunch cafeteria stuff at schools start?
I grew up in The Netherlands maybe it has always been like this in NA?

Anyway bring back packed lunches. Their are plenty of tasty healthy alternatives available if you don't like the limited choices from a school cafeteria. Then go educate the parents...



Well as a recent MS/HS I have to say that even when you ate everything you were still hungry. For me it was either 3S for a small meal at school, or 3$ for mcdonalds that would get me full enough. I chose mcdonalds everytime.



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Here is an article on The American Conservative website that discusses the politics of food that I believe is of value to this thread:
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/porky-populism/



The real question is: should the wife of a man who was elected by 30% of the population, be able to tell 100% of the population what their kids eat?



richardhutnik said:
Here is an article on The American Conservative website that discusses the politics of food that I believe is of value to this thread:
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/porky-populism/


It sorta seems to TOTALLY miss the point that it itself misses.

Which is unhealth eating doesn't have ANYTHING to do with regualtions, food deserts(mostly fictional) or whatever else big reasons people give.

In fact, regulations to make people eat healthy are going to do the opposite and make them eat worse.

The problem is government always tried to play the heavy, even with social issues.

 

Social issues pretty much can never be solved by a heavy handed approach and are often accidentally made worse by such an approach.


Besides a lot of the barriers to eating healthy are CAUSED by government.  Like big corn subsidies and the mountains of regulations that choke out local growers.



SamuelRSmith said:
The real question is: should the wife of a man who was elected by 30% of the population, be able to tell 100% of the population what their kids eat?

And you also support direct Democracy to, right?  

If you want to argue for populism, and the majority dictating things, it is not best to do it off the basis of a population facing an obesity epidemic.  Well, unless you feel obesity is a good choice.