According to ABC News.com http://abcnews.go.com/print?id=5393222 Today, our Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger sign legislation banning trans fats from restaurants in California. On the face of it this sounds good it might help the people; However it won’t change behavior.
“Perhaps the biggest issue,” said Keith-Thomas Ayoob, associate professor in the Pediatrics Department at Pediatrics at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, “is how much of the foods do we even need to be eating? Is this going to change obesity? No, because you’re swapping out one fat for another, the calories are the same. Would it be more beneficial for our hearts? Maybe.”
Professor Madelyn Fernstrom of University of Pittsburgh Weight Management Center agreed,
“A better message is eat less fat of any type, and more fruits and vegetables,” Fernstrom said. But she said she does not think the California ban will have any impact on residents’ health.
But ABC News medical correspondent Dr. David Katz disagrees, believes this is a positive 1st step.
“We don’t ask people to screen their food for lead, or arsenic, or mercury. These are known toxins; we should be able to assume that known poisons are not put into our food,” said Dr. Katz.
Dr. Katz maintained that as an artificial and harmful product linked to heart disease and diabetes, trans fats effectively mean slow death. “In this case, government regulation is pretty easy to justify,” Dr. Katz added.
The California Restaurants Association is against the legislation and lobbied against the bill. and I agree this smells like the nanny state to me. Full disclosure I am taking meds for High Blood Pressure and Cholesterol. This could help me but its what I eat and how much I exercise that changes behavior.
When I was a kid I tried cigarettes but I did not like the taste and today I can’t stand cancer sticks. Government intervention helped somewhat to change our behavior by banning cigarette advertising on Television but it was people choices whether or not to smoke.
California have more important issues on its plate to worry about including the State Budget that has not passed. Priorities people Priorities !
Categories: Good News · Nanny State
Tagged: Arnold Schwarzenegger, banning, budget, California, eating, fatty, foods, full disclosure, Govenor, government, Health, medical correspondent, meds., obesity, Priorities, regulations, restaurants, trans fats
A recent article by William Tate in Investors Business Daily http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=301702713742569 show that American Media donates overwhelming to the Democratic Party. This comes on the heels of the New York Times rejection of Republican John McCain article, but not Democrat nominee Barack Obama. Writers, reporters, editors and others in the media have every right to donate and vote to whoever they want. However they need to be aware when the public finds out trust is gone. Its no wonder that newspaper are losing money.
You know that the congress wants bring back the fairness doctrine maybe that should apply to the newspapers and major TV news networks and have a quota to include conservatives on their staffs. Its not going to happen.
Categories: Media
Tagged: bias, donations, editors, Media, public, reporters, trust, writers
Why I am an independent! I am dissatisfied with both parties. Where are the Democrats of old which believed in strong military like Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson; Sen. Henry M. (Scoop) Jackson of Washington State. Balanced tax approaches to federal and state budgeting like President Kennedy and Bill Clinton(although the Republican congress helped (read pushed). Where are the Republicans to understand the poor like Robert Wagner former New York City Mayor in 1960’s and Richard Nixon with the Section 8 Program. Or The Environment like President Teddy Roosevelt, Richard Nixon([again] yes, Nixon he signed the Earth Day legislation in 1969. Earth Day Law was championed by Sen. Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin[D]).
There is a need for partisanship to define differences between the parties. But there are times for bipartisanship. However there is no balance when it only partisanship. It looks to be the same for the next Administration and congress.
Categories: Politics
Tagged: bipartisanship, Franklin Roosevelt, Gaylord Nelson, Harry Truman, Henry Jackson, independent, John F. Kennedy, partisanship, Richard nixon, voter
