{"id":58817,"date":"2015-03-20T12:30:52","date_gmt":"2015-03-20T16:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=58817"},"modified":"2015-03-20T06:34:18","modified_gmt":"2015-03-20T10:34:18","slug":"oh-the-first-lady-is-gonna-love-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=58817","title":{"rendered":"Oh, the First Lady is Gonna Love This!"},"content":{"rendered":"

We all know the First Lady is big on \u201cnutrition\u201d.\u00a0 She\u2019s been a driving force behind many new Federal policies regarding food choices, particularly in schools.<\/p>\n

Well, the FLOTUS isn\u2019t gonna like the results of a recent study done by the Rand Corporation.<\/p>\n

It seems that out in the in La-La land \u2013 AKA Los Angeles, in the Left Coast’s Granola State \u2013 they got ahead of the FLOTUS.\u00a0 LA passed zoning a zoning ordinance in 2008 which banned new fast-food outlets and the expansion of existing ones (those located in strip malls were an exception) in a 32 square mile section of South LA.<\/p>\n

This part of LA had historically had high obesity rates.\u00a0 The thought was that limiting people\u2019s freedom (via making it harder to choose to eat fast food) would improve that “public health problem”.<\/p>\n

The Rand Corporation recently studied the effect of that law.<\/i><\/a> Here\u2019s what they found:<\/p>\n

“It had no meaningful effect,” Rand senior economist Roland Sturm said. “There’s no evidence that diets have improved more in South LA. Obesity and overweight rates have not fallen.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Gee \u2013 people simply continued doing what they wanted to do, in spite of a well-intended but ineffectual law to the contrary.\u00a0 Who\u2019d have ever expected that people would continue to, you know, exercise that little thing called “freedom of choice” in their daily lives?<\/p>\n

Changing human behavior of this type can\u2019t generally be done simply by decree.\u00a0 You first have to convince people to change their attitudes and habits.<\/p>\n

Perhaps one day our leftist \u201cbrethren\u201d will figure that out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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