Comments on: Tanya’s Tasty Tips: Fast Food Ban Prompts Healthy Ideas http://health.blogs.foxnews.com/2008/07/24/tanyas-tasty-tips-fastfood-ban-prompts-healthy-ideas/ The latest from the FOX News Health team. Tue, 01 Dec 2009 18:12:03 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Rory Reynolds http://health.blogs.foxnews.com/2008/07/24/tanyas-tasty-tips-fastfood-ban-prompts-healthy-ideas/#comment-14892 Rory Reynolds Thu, 24 Jul 2008 22:26:08 +0000 http://foxnewshealth.wordpress.com/?p=858#comment-14892 Tanya's Tips are good ideas. Government banning free market development to solve this problem is not. This overabundance of fast food restaurants exists only because there is a demand for their product. The argument that people tend to order less healthy food at fast food restaurants because healthy food is not on the dollar menu (by the way, at Wendys, salads are on the dollar menu) will not be solved by influencing what kind of restaurants are allowed to open. Healthy food is more expensive no matter where you buy it; at the grocery store, at Fast Food Restaurants, and at Sit Down Restaurants. Would the next step be to mandate that restaurants and grocery stores lower their prices on lowfat and nutritious food regardless of material cost, supply, and demand? The solution to obesity begins in the home and the individual, not in the government. People are perfectly capable of making the choice as to what kind of food will be healthy for them. They make this choice by picking were to spend their dollar(s). The idea of this ban, along with the vague desciptions of what kind of businesses it applies to are nothing more than a step towards more government control of the economy which invariably yields less than favorable results in the long term. Wake up people. Government is not an effective parent. Tanya’s Tips are good ideas. Government banning free market development to solve this problem is not. This overabundance of fast food restaurants exists only because there is a demand for their product. The argument that people tend to order less healthy food at fast food restaurants because healthy food is not on the dollar menu (by the way, at Wendys, salads are on the dollar menu) will not be solved by influencing what kind of restaurants are allowed to open. Healthy food is more expensive no matter where you buy it; at the grocery store, at Fast Food Restaurants, and at Sit Down Restaurants. Would the next step be to mandate that restaurants and grocery stores lower their prices on lowfat and nutritious food regardless of material cost, supply, and demand?

The solution to obesity begins in the home and the individual, not in the government. People are perfectly capable of making the choice as to what kind of food will be healthy for them. They make this choice by picking were to spend their dollar(s). The idea of this ban, along with the vague desciptions of what kind of businesses it applies to are nothing more than a step towards more government control of the economy which invariably yields less than favorable results in the long term. Wake up people. Government is not an effective parent.

]]> By: J. Johnson http://health.blogs.foxnews.com/2008/07/24/tanyas-tasty-tips-fastfood-ban-prompts-healthy-ideas/#comment-14891 J. Johnson Thu, 24 Jul 2008 22:08:16 +0000 http://foxnewshealth.wordpress.com/?p=858#comment-14891 Regarding the story of the proposed ban on new fast food outlets in L.A shown today July 24 at about 5:45 pm: the video clip that ran along with the story showed a person preparing 2 burgers and another adding the condiments with BARE HANDS - NO GLOVES! EGAD! Call in the Health Department inspectors!!!! Regarding the story of the proposed ban on new fast food outlets in L.A shown today July 24 at about 5:45 pm: the video clip that ran along with the story showed a person preparing 2 burgers and another adding the condiments with BARE HANDS – NO GLOVES! EGAD! Call in the Health Department inspectors!!!!

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