[twinofangelize56]

What do you think about this? Who decides who is obese and shouldn't be served? Would you have to hop on a scale before you are seated?

Excerpt:
FEBRUARY 1--Mississippi legislators this week introduced a bill that would make it illegal for state-licensed restaurants to serve obese patrons. Bill No. 282, a copy of which you'll find below, is the brainchild of three members of the state's House of Representatives, Republicans W. T. Mayhall, Jr. and John Read, and Democrat Bobby Shows. The bill, which is likely dead on arrival, proposes that the state's Department of Health establish weight criteria after consultation with Mississippi's Council on Obesity. It does not detail what penalties an eatery would face if its grub was served to someone with an excessive body mass index.

Read more about the House Bill here:
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive...01081fat1.html

[ChrisJones]

[Littlefield]

Originally Posted by twinofangelize56

What do you think about this? Who decides who is obese and shouldn't be served? Would you have to hop on a scale before you are seated?

Excerpt:
FEBRUARY 1--Mississippi legislators this week introduced a bill that would make it illegal for state-licensed restaurants to serve obese patrons. Bill No. 282, a copy of which you'll find below, is the brainchild of three members of the state's House of Representatives, Republicans W. T. Mayhall, Jr. and John Read, and Democrat Bobby Shows. The bill, which is likely dead on arrival, proposes that the state's Department of Health establish weight criteria after consultation with Mississippi's Council on Obesity. It does not detail what penalties an eatery would face if its grub was served to someone with an excessive body mass index.

Read more about the House Bill here:
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive...01081fat1.html

Like a lot of stupid bills it will never pass .

[linskyjack]

And conservatives want to give more control to state legislatures?

[ChrisJones]

There are so many problems forseeable with that bill, what if it's a healthfoods restaraunt? (Not sure how many "healthfoods" restaraunts there in Mississippi though!!) Are they gonna fine them for feeding an obese person a healthy meal??

Legislation is not the way to deal with the obesity epidemic affecting both the US and UK. Education is, make people understand they damage they are doing by shoveling all the unhealthy stuff in their mouths, if they have the information to make the correct decision they can blame no one else but themselves.

I say this from the perspective of someone who has recently realised the damage I've been doing to my body and changed his ways.

[TRS-80 vet]

Republicans W. T. Mayhall, Jr. FOR PRESIDENT!
and John Read VP
, and Democrat Bobby Shows SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE!

[TRS-80 vet]

Fat is a behavior of choice.

Eat less, lose weight. Eat more, gain weight. Yes, it's as simple as that. Otherwise, you've solved the energy crisis (and defied one of Newton's/thermodynamics laws)

You are not hungry.

You blood passes through your brain (cpu), and gets 'read' for essentials - water, sugar, nutrients, etc. Eat some ham, bacon, sausage, something salty, and the salt moves from your GI tract, to the bloodstream, and finally into the cells. The increased intracellular salt levels draw water from your blood, and guess what happens when that water-depleted blood gets processed by the cpu? The cpu says, "You're dehydrated, take water". But all the water is still there! It just moved from your blood system into the cell system. Your brain did it's job, and registered the water level drop.

Nutrients are continually read by the cpu the same way. That's why you, and pregnant mothers especially, with a highly nutrient-demanding developing fetus, get 'cravings'. It ain't the food, it's the nutrient. Ice cream (calcium), pickles (potassium (salt)), etc.

Even a change in the nutrient level, not necessarily a drop to critical levels, gets processed by your noggin'.

Eat a ton of turkey, taters, stuffin', and a ton of other grub at Thanksgivin', or CHRISTmas, and where do you find yourself 2 hours after gettin' up from the table? Back in the kitchen, pickin' at the bird.

Hungry? Of course not. The cpu just registered a drop in the nutrient and sugar levels after 2 hours. The half-life of a super-saturated system (blood) is VERY short. You just THINK you're hungry.

Discipline yourself. Don't be a

[johnnyburst79]

Not all neighborhoods have access to truly healthy foods and access to weight control activities. Some are obese from birth due to the diet of the mother and as the food education is lacking immediately as to what is "healthy" for a growing boy or girl. That's when you end up with a baby looking like this:



Is it all the parents fault? Possibly. Could it be from a lack of nutritional alternatives? Possibly. Not all places in America have wealth and excessively poor neighborhoods are more inundated with fast food and less healthy foods. Healthy food is undoubtedly more expensive than unhealthy foods. Schools also play a part in both gym class and other health related courses.

From some, it may not be a choice but a lifestyle bred into them since birth without their knowledge.

Drafting legislation against the individual and citizen is wrong. Put legislation against the owners of corporations who profit from the MSG injected, fat laced, flavor enhanced, pre processed then processed foods. Put in tax break bills for corporations that will offer free health classes to the morbidly obese. Write legislation against insurance companies who continue to insure the obese as a drain to society.

Putting legislation against the citizen in a place where 66% of society is obese is not a positive way to fight against the obesity epidemic.

[iltos]

Originally Posted by TRS-80 vet

Fat is a behavior of choice.

there's truth in this for many, but most health officials feel there a genetic component, as well.

don't really matter as far as this topic, tho.....

what's the next step?....ration food to people whose ratio of body fat to mass is too great?
institutionalize them?

[clhcpa]

Originally Posted by TRS-80 vet

Fat is a behavior of choice.

Eat less, lose weight. Eat more, gain weight. Yes, it's as simple as that. Otherwise, you've solved the energy crisis (and defied one of Newton's/thermodynamics laws)

Discipline yourself. Don't be a

You are a moron.

Originally Posted by iltos

there's truth in this for many, but most health officials feel there a genetic component, as well.

don't really matter as far as this topic, tho.....

what's the next step?....ration food to people whose ratio of body fat to mass is too great?
institutionalize them?

Thank you. Not all obese people are there by choice. Many, many factors weigh in (no pun intended). To lay it all at their doorstep is cruel.

[ChrisJones]

Originally Posted by johnnyburst79

Not all neighborhoods have access to truly healthy foods and access to weight control activities. Some are obese from birth due to the diet of the mother and as the food education is lacking immediately as to what is "healthy" for a growing boy or girl. That's when you end up with a baby looking like this:



Is it all the parents fault? Possibly. Could it be from a lack of nutritional alternatives? Possibly. Not all places in America have wealth and excessively poor neighborhoods are more inundated with fast food and less healthy foods. Healthy food is undoubtedly more expensive than unhealthy foods. Schools also play a part in both gym class and other health related courses.

From some, it may not be a choice but a lifestyle bred into them since birth without their knowledge.

Drafting legislation against the individual and citizen is wrong. Put legislation against the owners of corporations who profit from the MSG injected, fat laced, flavor enhanced, pre processed then processed foods. Put in tax break bills for corporations that will offer free health classes to the morbidly obese. Write legislation against insurance companies who continue to insure the obese as a drain to society.

Putting legislation against the citizen in a place where 66% of society is obese is not a positive way to fight against the obesity epidemic.

Nice post.

[LANMaster]

Originally Posted by linskyjack

And conservatives want to give more control to state legislatures?

Twisting this obvious liberal legislation against Republicans, eh?


Further proof that modern liberalism is based in Fascism.

[LANMaster]

Originally Posted by johnnyburst79

The legislation is designed so that this person will be able to sue McDonalds for serving him lunch.


Stupid fascist liberals

[Sarge]

Whats next, banning cancer patients from buying cigarettes?

[johnnyburst79]

Originally Posted by LANMaster

The legislation is designed so that this person will be able to sue McDonalds for serving him lunch.


Stupid fascist liberals

LAN, your idea is just plain wrong and an ignorant statement. That suit was already tried as someone ate McD's or Burger King everyday for every meal tried to say it was their fault he was fat. It failed.