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I wonder when they are going to mandate exercise programs.  I mean let's face it, for some of the folks being targeted the only time they move is to go to the fridge, restroom, or to get some fast food.  Now they won't have to leave the house, as often. 

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ORIGINAL: slaveboyforyou

I don't think you can with adults; unless employers force them to do it like they're trying in Japan.  But you can do it in schools  Down here, Huckabee mandated more PE classes and mandatory BMI notifications for parents.  I thought it was a great idea, but our new Democratic governor has done away with it.  Healthy habits have to start at a young age. 

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I still think the entire reason for trying to get everybody skinny, is so that when they mandate full body latex suits, they can focus on height in making them.

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ORIGINAL: DomKen

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ORIGINAL: Sanity

Aren't you on the "ban the automobile" bandwagon?

Or at least on the "keep gasoline unaffordable" bandwagon?

I mean, what about the poor, helpless planet...

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Folks who live in parts of the south side of chicago are several miles away from the nearest supermarket with bus travel their only real option for getting there. Getting a few days of groceries home on a CTA bus is a pleasure everyone should experience just once.

You seem to misunderstand my point.

The vast majority of people in the affected areas don't/can't afford to drive just to eat. So with no groceries the fast food places become their only options.

The LA city council is hopefully also trying to get supermarkets to move into the area where they banned new fast food places.

As to cars and gas. I own a car and certainly have no intention of giving it up. I think present gas standards are a joke and that SUV's should be taxed so much only people who absolutely have to hav ethem will buy them.

Gas prices are high due to the oil companies knowing they can get away with anything while GWB is in office. They'll be down to around $2.50 a gallon next summer.

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The only way this LA program has a chance, is if somebody moves into these neighborhoods and offers affordable fresh produce and so forth... there are co-ops that have done it, and a company called EasyWay in Memphis offers a variety of produce in exactly this sort of area... 

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ORIGINAL: Vendaval

Another criticism of many inner city areas is that liquor stores are more common than grocery stores.  But is banning liquor stores a good solution, or is it better to have business incentives for grocery stores, or a apply both tactics at once?

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ORIGINAL: Thadius
Or for even shallower reasons, they don't want to see obese folks in latex... and now that I had a flashback to the days of spandex, I must go clear those images from my mind by watching porn.

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ORIGINAL: Mercnbeth
Thadius,

I think you stumbled across the missing part of every one of the old Star Trek shows and Sci-Fi movies about how they had entire populations of a planet dress the same! Who knew that is was through Democratic initiatives such as this one.

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ORIGINAL: Thadius

I wonder when they are going to mandate exercise programs.  I mean let's face it, for some of the folks being targeted the only time they move is to go to the fridge, restroom, or to get some fast food.  Now they won't have to leave the house, as often. 

As one of the Marines in Generation Kill said " Only in America can poverty be measured by obesity".  I bring it up partly tongue in cheek, because only here do we have to close restaurants down to prevent the poor from overeating.

C'est la vie,
Thadius

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ORIGINAL: Lucylastic

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ORIGINAL: Thadius

I wonder when they are going to mandate exercise programs.  I mean let's face it, for some of the folks being targeted the only time they move is to go to the fridge, restroom, or to get some fast food.  Now they won't have to leave the house, as often. 

As one of the Marines in Generation Kill said " Only in America can poverty be measured by obesity".  I bring it up partly tongue in cheek, because only here do we have to close restaurants down to prevent the poor from overeating.

C'est la vie,
Thadius

Maybe they could mandate that the obese, poor, welfare recipients (insert your favourite scapegoat) started running rickshaws for those poor overpaying for gas priced city dwellers with jobs, there must be a market for it, they could drive busses in from South Cnetral, drop em off at the rickshaw  place and send em out..it gives em  excercise.... no time to eat.... then bus em back home again and stopping off at a supermarket. It saves on gasoline, mind you  the pollution might kill a few of em off, but theres hundreds more where they came from.... maybe have a portable defibrillator in each rickshaw for anyone who has a heart attack while running from the gangs. Oh or attach one of those armbands to each fat person, so that when they try to get in a fast food place they are zapped... that would be worth the fun value??
Maybe we could send you down David Tsubouchi to give the really important dirt on how to properly feed a family ...haggle the price of dented  tuna down to 69 c a can. He prepared a sample menu for those on welare (who were going to get a 22% cut in  benefits). Only problem was it was found to have less nutritional value than meals for those who were in jail.
Obesity is an issue in the westernworld, Canada, UK, Europe, Australia, etc etc, mandating what people can and cant eat, and forcing them to  excercise, should give the human rights commission a hard on. 
Bloody ridiculous
Lucy

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ORIGINAL: servantforuse

It never ends. I guess the gang and drug problem in LA must have been taken care of..This is the nanny culture gone crazy. In Chicago the city elders banned restaurants from serving fau grau...