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1/8/2014 7:52:02 PM
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An interesting idea to help with the US obesity crisis
Limit portion sizes to 200 calories. You can buy as much as you want. Get that out right away.
This would be limited to prepared foods. Restaurants only, really. You would be allowed to order whatever you want, and in the quantities you want to, but you would know full well that each portion is 200 calories.
I'm using an economic theory applied to nutrition. In order for consumers to make the best choices, they need to be properly informed. With the best information, they will make the best choices.
Restaraunts, mostly fast food, do their best to obfuscate the nutritional information on their products. So, add a leveling factor. Make it so no matter what you order, no matter where you order it, it will be 200 calories. Then let the market decide what it will consume.
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Editado por GrandmasterNinja: 1/10/2014 4:47:38 AM
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8 RespuestasAnd that would solve absolutely nothing and just give government even more power. How about mind your own business and let others live their own lives?
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I was expecting Soylent Green.
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4 RespuestasThis sounds like a law that would technically tell businesses what/how much to sell, which the government cannot do.
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1 RespuestaWell, I can't say I would support sweeping regulation like that. But I also don't have an alternative that doesn't involve government intervention.
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5 RespuestasEditado por bocaj_06: 1/9/2014 9:16:20 PMSo, I can still go out and eat as many wings as I want, but i'll have to buy them in 200 calorie increments? Sounds silly.
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The reason people get fat usually isn't huge ass meals, it's their constant snacking. Having a bag of chips, drinking two sodas while playing a video games and that sort of stuff.
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7 RespuestasInteresting idea. I think exercising might be a better solution though, but I guess I'm just old fashioned like that.
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2 RespuestasOP is retarded
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1 RespuestaEditado por RIP delta: 1/9/2014 8:02:42 PMCharlie, your ideas are getting dumber Also here the calorie content of foods is on menus and people are still fat. If you want to fight obesity you should force people to exercise daily a la 1930s Germany. Also stop pouring sugar into everything
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1 RespuestaPeople are fat because bad food is cheap . Black people in America have the highest obesity percent. I believe it is because fast food, such as McDonalds, is cheap, along with other junk foods and drinks. (Such as kool-aid) . This is why I also think there is a large number of white obese people.
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1 RespuestaPeople count calories?
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33 RespuestasOr you could just worry about yourself and let other people do what they want?
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7 RespuestasWhat's stopping you from ordering multiple meals? For someone that is active like me, and bigger than most people (height wise but still a very healthy weight), I already consume more food than average. You can't limit me (and people like me) to buying foods that are so small, or else I'll just buy more.
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Better idea: ban fat people.
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Editado por Sierra-Noble: 1/9/2014 7:21:37 PMIt's a free country, let fat people be fat. Let skinny people be skinny. Stop tailing around the media and remember that's their body and they let it get that way. Humans have this wonderful thing called a brain and it's full of all these different needs for self preservation, keeping your body able and ready is one of them. Now how able or how ready is strictly up to the user. I'm tired of all the lazy people having things done for them in our society, I would much rather my taxes go to a single mom.with three kids then to a "Cripple" driving his Cadillac.
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3 RespuestasI don't know, McDonalds started putting their calorie content on the drive-thru menu in big, bold print, and it doesn't seem to deter me or anyone else from eating what they were going to anyway. It would be interesting to see if putting up the calorie counts changed ordering habits, but just based on anecdotal lengths of lunch lines, the calorie counts aren't scaring customers away. That said, I do appreciate they are fully informing me before I choose to buy that crap.
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6 RespuestasOr we can abolish restaurants and eat whole natural foods like mankind used to. Limiting calories in a persons diet will help them lose weight but it's not necessarily "healthy" if those limited calories consist of vitamin less and nutrient less foods. I feel health is a much more important issue.
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4 RespuestasSo you need to eat ten meals a day to survive?
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17 RespuestasEditado por cxkxr: 1/9/2014 5:05:56 PMCalories aren't necessarily bad... I hate how our society obsesses over calories, when nutritional value should be of priority.
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Agreed. Literally thats all it will take.
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2 RespuestasAll meals should be exactly 666 calories, so we can eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner and get the Daily Recommended Amount.
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5 RespuestasSo, what's stopping people from buying multiple packages of 200 calorie foods, and then eating said multiple packages in one sitting?
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200? Im fairly certain my average meal is 600.... Ummm.... I bet Im wrong.
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