I heard today that Boston area "experts" have issued an opinion that parents of very obese children should have the children taken away and put in foster care. If this isn't the ultimate in a Nanny State, I don;t know what is. I can just see the headlines now, "Governor Patrick Sign First-In-Nation Legislation..." He'll probably have his buddy's wife Michelle Obama at his side as he signs it!
http://boston.cbslocal.com/2011/07/12/local-expert-proposes-that-parents-should-lose-custody-of-super-obese-kids/
While obesity is something that we should be concerned about, the way to go about it is through education and the people will decide on their own what should be done about it. Personally I don't have an issue with having restaurants provide nutritional information similar to packaged foods. Give me the information and I will make an informed decision as to what I want to eat or not, Let supply and demand dictate what restaurants and food producers offer and tell government to stay away.
It is not good to indulge in fatty, high caloric foods once in a while, but doing it everyday is the issue. Even our Nanny-In-Chief, Michelle Obama would be forced to agree as she just ordered a 1,700 meal for herself at the opening of a burger joint in Washington DC this past Monday. Although, I do have to laugh, she ordered BOTH a Diet Coke AND a Chocolate Shake!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/44/post/michelle-obama-has-1556-calories-meal-at-shake-shack-outing/2011/07/11/gIQAgwPE9H_blog.html
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