Question by Locomotive Breath: Would this be an effective way to combat Food Abuse?
Using government’s already available information, take the number of people in a household and calculate the recommended number of calories they should consume in a week.
When food items are purchased, they will be recorded (like cold medicine purchases currently are).
Once your weekly limit is reached, you can not purchase anymore food.
The possession of more food than your family needs would be grounds for immediate arrest.
Of course, items purchased at restaurants would count toward your weekly calorie allowance.
Given that almost four times as many people die from Food Abuse as from Drug Abuse, it is obvious that something needs to be done to protect citizens from their poor choices.
The health care costs of obese people is a burden we all share (just like when people have a wreck on a motorcycle and aren’t wearing a helmet, or in a car and aren’t wearing a seat belt).
Also, obese people suffer from narcolepsy (sudden irresistable drowsiness) brought about by sleep apnea (an abnormality of sleep exclusive to the obese), which causes daytime sleepiness and the inevitable automobile accidents that sleeping while driving causes.
Can you think of other ways to protect people from themselves?
Please talk to your children about the dangers of Food Abuse.
Obesity destroys lives.
Obesity is a KILLER!
Facade: We could use the same ID we use for tracking our cold medicine purchases: Our Driver’s License. There would be no need for any more beauracracy. The same people who track cold-medicine purchases could monitor food purchases. The whole system is automated anyway.
The technology and personnel are already available . . . and in place.
Missy: you don’t care if people harm themselves, and possibly, you, due to their destructive behaviors?
Moomy of 5: If you’ll re-read my post, you will see that I say obesity results in SLEEP APNEA. The sleep apnea then contributes to narcolepsy. Read more carefully. Thanks.
Parent:
http://www.sleepapnea.org/info/index.html
“Risk factors include being male, overweight, and over the age of forty,”
http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/narcolepsy/detail_narcolepsy.htm#139533201
“Infections, exposure to toxins, dietary factors, stress, hormonal changes such as those occurring during puberty or menopause, and alterations in a person’s sleep schedule are just a few of the many factors that may exert direct or indirect effects on the brain . . . ”
Yeah. I think YOU need to get it right, before YOU spout off. Ya know what I’m sayin’? I think ya do.
Best answer:
Answer by Façade
it just almost makes sense. However I think the major flaw in your presentation is “Protect people from themselves” The motorcycle analogy is a good try to. Given all the starving people in the world, I would rather put a limit on food waste. Maybe some censor in peoples trash cans. I have to say the logistics of your rationing would be incredibly hard to do. It would take an entirely new gov’t department and ID cards for everyone. For the sake of argument it’s debatable, but people of all political parties would object to the cose and invasion of privacy. It’s almost Puritanical, what to do with all the other guilty pleasures e.g. alcohol, cigarettes, every recreational sport has risks and environmental consequences. Last of all is most obesity is a life choice, I think excessive TV destroys more brains cells than obesity. Many hold that opinion. I’m sitting here on Yahoo not excercising and being mostly silly. You can’t dictate morals on this subject.
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