http://www.healthandfitnessadvice.com/the-healthy-skeptic/food-police-fighting-a-losing-battle.html No BS Health and Fitness Advice Thu, 19 Jan 2012 20:20:19 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.healthandfitnessadvice.com/the-healthy-skeptic/food-police-fighting-a-losing-battle.html/comment-page-1#comment-16 alex Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:17:24 +0000 #comment-16 Great post, Sal. I agree with the above post. The regulation of our lives is excessive now. My brother in law and his wife (who are full of diet "tips") look at me in horror when I give my daughter a candy. I get scolded on the evils of sugar. Yeah, if that's all I feed her. In fact she gleefully eats rapini and other healthy foods. We have a healthy diet and are not partial to silly trends. Forgive me, as the parent, if I regulate my own child. Great post, Sal. I agree with the above post. The regulation of our lives is excessive now. My brother in law and his wife (who are full of diet “tips”) look at me in horror when I give my daughter a candy. I get scolded on the evils of sugar. Yeah, if that’s all I feed her. In fact she gleefully eats rapini and other healthy foods. We have a healthy diet and are not partial to silly trends. Forgive me, as the parent, if I regulate my own child.

]]> http://www.healthandfitnessadvice.com/the-healthy-skeptic/food-police-fighting-a-losing-battle.html/comment-page-1#comment-15 LandruBek Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:36:02 +0000 #comment-15 I agree policies like this are clumsy and ineffective. In fact I think they are downright repressive: I get hot under the collar when people treat liberty so lightly, something to be thrown away at the merest excuse. I'm sure there are plenty of healthy, active kids who might enjoy a chocolate treat at lunch once in a while, which would be fine for them, and why should they be punished by a blanket ban? I realize we are discussing kids here, not adults, and proponents might say "We're trying to teach our kids a lifestyle of healthy eating"; but I think they are also teaching kids that individual liberty and personal responsibility are unimportant, that nanny-state intrusion into the minutiae of daily life is acceptable, and that anyone who wants a little treat has to break the rules in order to get it. Those are not good lessons to teach children, I think. I agree policies like this are clumsy and ineffective. In fact I think they are downright repressive: I get hot under the collar when people treat liberty so lightly, something to be thrown away at the merest excuse. I’m sure there are plenty of healthy, active kids who might enjoy a chocolate treat at lunch once in a while, which would be fine for them, and why should they be punished by a blanket ban? I realize we are discussing kids here, not adults, and proponents might say “We’re trying to teach our kids a lifestyle of healthy eating”; but I think they are also teaching kids that individual liberty and personal responsibility are unimportant, that nanny-state intrusion into the minutiae of daily life is acceptable, and that anyone who wants a little treat has to break the rules in order to get it. Those are not good lessons to teach children, I think.

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