{"id":30365,"date":"2012-06-12T13:12:12","date_gmt":"2012-06-12T17:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=30365"},"modified":"2012-06-12T13:12:12","modified_gmt":"2012-06-12T17:12:12","slug":"legislating-smarts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=30365","title":{"rendered":"Legislating smarts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some people are too stupid to live and no amount of legislation will save them from themselves. Of course, you’ve all heard about Grandma Bloomberg trying to eradicate the scourge of super-sized soda pop drinks in his city, and I’m pretty sure that you agree with me that it’s a clear example of government over-stepping their boundaries. Well, some New Yorkers don’t think the campaigns against their obesity have gone far enough, according to the New York Times<\/a>;<\/p>\n

At parks, bodegas and fast-food restaurants across the Bronx, many residents had not heard of most of the previous anti-obesity efforts. \u201cIf I did, I don\u2019t think I\u2019d be this big right now,\u201d said Faith Coleman-Njikeng, who, at 5-foot-2 and 200 pounds, has never been heavier. \u201cThey didn\u2019t do a good job of publicizing them.\u201d <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, Big Faith needs someone to warn her that she’s hefty-sized, but in today’s PC society, there’s no one to shame her into a slimmer size, so legislate away, Grandma Bloomberg, some people can’t hear you roar.<\/p>\n

For others, nothing had worked. Brett Toney, who is 5-foot-9 and 210 pounds, and his wife, who is also obese, have sworn off fried foods, attended health fairs, used a coupon for a farmers markets and walked in a park for exercise in the past year. He did not lose a single pound. She gained 20. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, if that attending health fairs, and using a coupon hasn’t worked, I don’t know what will. Sorry folks you should just give up, curl up into a gelatinous mass and wait for death. But I warn you, your mate will probably eat you.<\/p>\n

So, since the residents of the Bronx are too stupid to not eat, the only answer is to legislate smarts for them;<\/p>\n

Kelly D. Brownell, the director of the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale University, said that while education and incentives were popular with the public, those programs tended to reach relatively small numbers because of their limited funds. He said he supported the use of regulations like the city\u2019s proposed ban on large sodas as a necessary step toward curbing obesity. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Any fat people out there who don’t know that drinking huge sugary drinks compound their weight problems? I didn’t think so. Apparently, the problem isn’t education, then.<\/p>\n

I remember that we wrote about Michelle Obama preaching at a DFAC<\/a> about obesity which strikes me as only looking for your lost car keys under the single working streetlight, whether that’s where you lost them or not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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