Oops, look at the Samples in the NY study vs. the Seattle Study: Low income NY & NJ vs. the more health conscious Seattle. Why wouldn't you expect differing results. If you compare the grocery cart of someone on food stamps vs. more affluent shoppers, you can see the same effect: junk food vs somewhat healthier food. There is an affordability issue, as well as a healthy attitude issue.
John Earpof WA6:06PM February 23, 2011
The time, money & energy spent to conduct surveys and roll-out requirements to the fast food chans could have all been spent on bringing activity back to the schools. I am all for trying to make our country healthier, but it starts with bringing PE back to schools, offering affordable after school sports and lowering the cost of healthy foods. Food is half the battle of the bulge. Our kids and adults sit for hours on end in front of computers, video games, and televisions. No one is encouraging them to get out and move!!! Until the cost of food goes down, you will not succeed in encouraging most people to skip the $0.99 Big Mac for a $5.00 whole weat sandwhich regardless of the nutrition facts. We have become a lazy nation and instead of blaming ourselves for being obeses we rather spend our limited energy blaming others for our choices. I used to dread having to run a mile every friday for PE all through middle school and high school, but looking back on it, it helped me see what a healthy lifestyle balance is. I know if I want a Big Mac and a Coke, what it will take to work off those calories.
Sad state of affairsof CA3:40PM February 15, 2011
All of this Big Brother nonsense doesn't affect anyone. If any of this worked, why is our population getting fatter every year? No one pays the slightest attention to food labeling. This is all done by sanctimonious do-gooders, feeding their own egos but accomplishing nothing. What a waste of time and money.
Dr.Daveof CA2:10PM February 15, 2011
How about instead of doing a song and dance explaining the merits of each menu item to the consumer, you allow parents to do their job and take responsibility for their kids turning into little butterballs, and let teenagers live with their decisions too.
I never got fat until I got into high school and when I did, I ballooned out to 230 pounds because of my own stupidity. You know what I did then? I didn't cry that the fast food industry made me that way, I sucked it up and started exercising and dieting and dropped down 50 pounds over the course of my Junior year and never went back.
Peteof GA1:50PM February 15, 2011
Imagine that! Having spent several years as a high school teacher, I could have told anyone who wanted to know what the results of this research would be. As a general rule, kids (and people in general) don't think about the nutritional value of what they eat, they only think about what they want to eat at that particular point in time. If people did give some thought to this, then 60 percent of adults would not be overweight. It's not that they want to be overweight, they simply don't give it any thought.
Michaelof TN12:58PM February 15, 2011
The same as "necessity is the mother of invention"; same goes for "people do what necessity demand". People don't worry about money till they have lost it all; people don't worry about their teeth or eyes till they start losing them. Life is a learning process, everyone has a hard head. That is why the Bible says blessed are they that believe but do not see. The book of proverbs and the book of wisdom tell us all how to live but who has time for that stuff.
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