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ORIGINAL: Aylee

The food pyramid is created by the USDA.  So it is funded by our taxes.  Blaming the meat and dairy industry is just an excuse NOT to use it or to make lifestyle changes. 

Yes its funded by taxes, doesn't mean its right.
Its very easy to find a lot of discussion on USDA having conflict of interest.
I happen to fall on the side of the people who think the USDA are well and truly in bed with the meat and dairy industry.
Not sure who you are posting this comment for but I personally don't reject the holy USDA food pyramid because I don't want to make lifestyle changes.
I spent a lot of time researching my nutrition options to lead a healthier life. Then I made lifestyle changes that fit around what I believed after considerable reading was going to work for me.
I reject the amount of grains meat and diary consumption encouraged and made the effort to eat clean as a health not a weight loss choice.
I'm not sitting here sneering at the food charts while I face plant into a chocolate mousse cake.

So. . . you don't like it.  That is fine.  Your PCP can and will give you a food guide.  You can get one from weight watchers also.  In fact, you can find them ALL over the place. 

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ORIGINAL: lovingpet

Did I screw up my words again? grrrrrr.... NO...it is the bottled water that costs more.
lovingpet

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ORIGINAL: Mercnbeth

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Educational classes

Suggested Curriculum:
EAT LESS
GET OFF YOUR ASS AND EXERCISE
REPEAT DAILY
CLASS DISMISSED

Master's Degree Class:
If it tastes good - it's fattening; eat limited quantities.

Doctorate Class:
Eliminate from your diet everything white or made from white ingredients and you will lose weight.

(Wonder if I get apply for a government grant using some of that undistributed 'stimulus' money?)

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Further, why on earth even let this crap hit the shelves in the first place?

You propose as a solution to put the government in charge of determining what goes on grocery store shelves because people are too stupid or don't have the ability to make a good decision?

You have been properly indoctrinated.

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The food industry can do better. There just is no incentive for them to do so.

The food industry has a GREAT incentive. You, me, and other people buy it, they make money. Buy and eat too much you get fat and they make more money.

Not really a difficult concept and not one which should require legislation or change results. I think the formula also works in reverse. Don't buy it, don't eat it, you consume less calories, you lose weight. Enough follow that formula and ultimately the product is removed from the store shelves without the need for a bureaucrat to monitor your buying or eating habits.

However I think a $100/pizza tax, a $5/12 ounces of soda tax, and a $25/gallon ice-cream tax would be FANFUCKINGTASTIC!

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ORIGINAL: seababy

I'm not sitting here sneering at the food charts while I face plant into a chocolate mousse cake.

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ORIGINAL: Aylee

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ORIGINAL: seababy

I'm not sitting here sneering at the food charts while I face plant into a chocolate mousse cake.

Well, it is OKAY to do that.  As long as you throw-up afterwards. 

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ORIGINAL: seababy

But what about the 40 billion dollar weight loss industry? (That's a lot of jobs, or at least a small handful on a huge amount of dosh!)
The food industry profit will plummet if everyone stops eating prepared/canned/prepacked food and stocks up on fresh food and veg.
Same with the drug companies, as obesity levels drops and the linked medicals conditions statistics drop with it.
The fat cats need you fat!
Eat for *America! (*Or insert your country of origin)

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ORIGINAL: Sanity


I'm six-foot, one inch tall and I weigh just shy of two hundred pounds. I climbed twelve stories of stairs today and did various other exercises, so I wonder if its okay with the LA Times if I go out to an all-I-can-eat Chinese buffet tonight.

Or will that make me a sinner?

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Also you can get fat on healthy foods too if you're eating to much of them and not exercise. So what then, what about someone who eats perfectly healthy they just eat 10 times more than they need.

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ORIGINAL: sirsholly

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Also you can get fat on healthy foods too if you're eating to much of them and not exercise. So what then, what about someone who eats perfectly healthy they just eat 10 times more than they need.

that is called a lack of self control

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ORIGINAL: Toppingfrmbottom

Yes. It is. It points out though how short sided a ban on "fat encouraging foods" is though I feel, because anything can be unhealthy. I could go to the store and buy some zoochini and come home and deep fat fry it, and poof it's not as healthy any more. Same with potato's and other healthy stuff, and so just taxing junk food in the hopes that it'll deterr people is not going to work, because you can turn anything into junk food, with a little enginuity.

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ORIGINAL: Lockit

They won't ban it... just tax it! lol

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I'm not sitting here sneering at the food charts while I face plant into a chocolate mousse cake.

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ORIGINAL: Sanity


Junk food prohibition would undoubtedly spur on a lot of black market donuts and things anyway.

How do you ban food?

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ORIGINAL: Toppingfrmbottom

Yes. It is. It points out though how short sided a ban on "fat encouraging foods" is though I feel, because anything can be unhealthy. I could go to the store and buy some zoochini and come home and deep fat fry it, and poof it's not as healthy any more. Same with potato's and other healthy stuff, and so just taxing junk food in the hopes that it'll deterr people is not going to work, because you can turn anything into junk food, with a little enginuity.