What kind of limits on fast food - if any - would be reasonable?

If you want to eat something that is larger than your head then no, you can't have it.

A very possible future for healthcare is one where if you take care of yourself no expense will be denied you by the "system" to take care of you, but if you don't - well that's your choice but you will NOT be -given- that healthcare. If you're rich and can buy it yourself, ok good for you, but if not, well that'll be your doom.

I don't think we should limit the amount of junk food that people choose to purchase or put into their body, but I do believe that restaurants should be held accountable for the content and quality of the food they serve.

Some of us like the occasional burger when we're on the run and don't have time to cook; or are traveling and don't have a kitchen to use.
Those people deserve to have options available that will satisfy them without causing them cancer or diabetes.

But you shouldn't limit how much a person eats. That's protecting them from their own stupidity and it goes against Darwinism.
If they wish to be gluttons, then they will become unattractive. Unattractive people are less likely to produce offspring, thus preventing them from passing on their genes to future generations.

So, if the result is that future generations are leaner, healthier, smarter, etc...I'm quite happy with that outcome.

Legislate to protect the majority, but don't legislate stupidity.

Just because they are selling the McPoison doesn't mean we have to buy it. I look at it just like Crack. I know it's bad for me and I stay away from it. Don't want it don't need it don't want to be around it. I understand some folks are strung out on the McPoison but they have a choice that only they can make. The Govenment has other shit to worry about if ya ask me.

we have choices folks.

wooohooo, so that makes two things we're number one at obeisity and teen pregnancy. I don't think anyone should be able tell me what I can and can't do to or put into my body. Next thing bloomberg will be telling people is what kind of tattoos are safe. I don't have a stamp on my body that says property of U.S. Gov. .

Do not think possible!

*****they use science to make people addicted to treats*****

Excuses. You can only do so much to make the fast-food industry idiot-proof.

Fast food has been around forever, and people haven't changed much, so the question is, what's different?

Why are people getting so fat?

It's a serious health issue. And even if you don't have weight problems, it affects healthcare costs drastically.

Any limits on food itself is clearly a fucking waste of time. You're not going to be able to limit the amount of tasty treats people buy.

Instead, go right to the source. Ban the proliferation of these disgusting places. Why do we need a fast food restaurant every other fucking block?

Make it so that only a limited number of these things can be built in any given area per capita.

While you're at it, subsidize healthy food for lower income people and invest public dollars into fun exercise activities for adults.

In LA, near the Santa Monica beach, there's an excellent public area that has climbing ropes and gymnastics bars and bike paths and basketball courts, etc. etc.

Of course, we live in the age of the cult of Rand, so none of this will ever happen.

It's "your choice" to be fat and it's just too bad that we don't have a society that encourages or facilitates physical activity.

Part of what's wrong with our society, people aren't allowed make decisions for themselves...

Seems nobody wants to take issue with it, because it's not like we're arranging marriages, or forcing genital mutilations... Wait no, circumcision is genital mutilation.

Seriously, we live in about most regulated excuse for a "free" country there is. Unless you're working Wall Street, or some powerful corporation, it's regulations on everything, and allot of them are totally unneeded.

It's messed up, BP needs regulations, Monsanto needs regulations, all these corporate entities, banking institutions, they needed regulations but they don't have them and we continue to suffer.

For the average human to go through life with a short list of things she/he can do, and most none of those things are fulfilling considering they contribute to an artificial man-made system which they're in most cases are a victim of and can't change.

The main, and fair thing you could do with fast food.... Let's quit calling it food. Why are corporations allowed to mislabel everything, call man made chemicals "food", hide their practices, and serve people SHIT, when it would be considered fraudulent and downright illegal for any average person to do the same on a smaller scale?

Educate people, is about the best thing you can do, but to regulate the average person further. We're constantly limiting our fellow man, you take away all the free choice and life out of humanity, you'll continue to see people violently lash out and the emotional manifestation of their enslavement present itself in the form of mental illness....

Fast Food companies should be forced to honestly disclose what's in the food they sell. Although ev
en if that were to happen, people would still eat it, and it will still be a problem. With all of the information about how bad fast food is for you available, people are still eating it, regardless of the fact that it's not healthy, regardless of the fact that they do not know what's in it. I've never passed an McD's that wasn't full. I don't know what the solution for this issue would be. I choose not to eat it, and for now that's enough for me.

No govt regulation needed here.

why bother.

those who bother to be informed about what they do in their lives and what they put in their body, already know food isnt supposed t be fast, and that stuff is complete garbage.

and the rest who dont care, with their capitalist vote, the dollar, have proved they are more than content eating garbage.

let the survival of the fittest do what it is supposed to do.let those who think fruity pebbles is a source of fruit take themselves out of the human gene pool, leaving behind those who have the ability to think like normal human beings.

why protect the stupid from themselves.

and as long as tobacco is legal, their is no basis for messing with anything less toxic.

None.

There should be absolutely no limits whatsoever on portion sizes, etc. What and how much is eaten should be up to the sole discretion of the individual. People should be allowed to make healthy or unhealthy diet choices for themselves. Restaurants shouldn't be allowed to crap on a plate and call it meatloaf, but other than obvious stuff like that there should be no bans.

There is no reason to let health insurance companies (yes, they are likely the ones behind this fascism) make these choices for us... this is why the health industry should not be for-profit.

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Limits are already in place...it's called STOP EATING IT! I mean there is NOTHING simpler. The solution to the "Fast Food Epidemic" is already in place...STOP EATING FRENCH FRIES! God! IDIOTS!

I don’t believe in restricting what they can sell but I Do believe in making them post Exactly what is in it with Large fines if they lie about it.

Normally, I'd say just don't eat that crap. However, I'd really like some assurances that we're not going to be eating McSoylent Green in the near future.

If the Government can dictate how big our Soda Pop is them what in the hell can they not dictate to us about? I am opposed to fast food personally, but the Government has no business telling me what types of food or sizes of drinks I can consume.