Now, the liberals move to control your diet....

You can take all the candy you might want to the checkout line, you just cannot pick it up there like you could before. Big Whoop???

 

that is not what they are doing, I think it's wrong of republicans to decide what people eat, time to end the food pyramid nonsense Nixon created

the governments dietary recommendations are used for anyone receiving federal dollars, orphanages, hospitals, schools, elderly care facilities, prisons, ect....

a high carb\low fat diet is bad for ones health, time for the government to stop pushing that on people

time to stop pushing grains, eat your meat, fish and eggs, they are good for you

as to this law, all they are doing is saying the candy can't be displayed in the isle - trying to get children hooked on addictive substances

 

true, people already addicted will just go get them from the isle, but some may never start the addiction is the hope

 

It actually would come as a relief for parents, I would think.

I can't count how many times I've seen a poor mother with a couple of kids in tow at the checkout line and the 4-year-old ogles all the colorful candies, picks one, and starts balling to mommy to buy it. This should put an end to that, or at least diminish its frequency.

 

Are they doing this because Californians are fatties?

If so it's not the candy doing it, it's the gargantuan amounts of meat and dairy that Americans seem to eat.

 

Exactly what I was just saying.

 

Candy has always existed, and sugar was in more processed foods 30 years ago than it is today .. yet people are fatter than ever.

 

How about those 'poor mothers' train their kids not to behave that way?

 

Ahhh .. seriously? All those foods were available in the 1970s/80s/90s, and there was much less obesity.

Govts trying to save people from themselves just disables them. It's disgusting overreach.

 

God knows that Floriduh is already chock full...

 

The increase coincided with a dramatic increase in meat and dairy consumption due to lower prices, and a massive decrease in exercise. Nothing to do with carbs. Carbs are the foundation of all 'peasant' diets worldwide, and the vast majority of peasants are skinny.

 

Feel free to vacation and retire in Kalistania.

 

Yeah, you go do that.

 

most people did not eat the high carb low fat diets back then - adding in constant snaking, keeps insulin high all day long

also the oils in these processed foods was not the same, these seed oils they use today keep fresh longer, but are not good for ones health

 

Then you have seen a parent who is not good at controlling their child/kids.

As a child, I learned quick to not do that.

 

It's very true that California is prone to deceptively worded laws like this, but in this case I think you are misunderstanding it.
It sounds like they are just banning junk food from being displayed near the checkout counters.

Anyway, I don't think it will be long before we see California mandate all soda bottles with sugar or high-fructose corn syrup be required to have a picture of a gross fat unhealthy person on the label. That is what many countries in Europe have done for cigarette packages.

 

I think this belongs in the same basket as this

 

meat and dairy are not making people fat, it's the carbs, carbs raise insulin, insulin is the fat storage hormone

insulin also blocks you from using fat as energy, thus making you hungry rather then burning the fat for energy, this is why you are hungry two hours after a high carb meal

donuts have sugar and fat, so you raise the insulin, and all that fat goes to storage as your body has to deal with the most toxic things first, in this case sugar, but alcohol also takes precedents if consumed

 

Addiction works that way, they are addicted to the sugar

the same could be said for alcohol and cigarettes, why do we not have easy access for children, because we do not want them to get addicted to harmful substances

 

The best way I ever heard it explained is that we evolved to get a reward from rare but high value substances. Sugar is a rare commodity in the Neolithic diet hence we get a reward from consuming it. So was the other modern day poison - salt

 

The city officials aren't stopping anybody from buying food. All you have to do is walk a few feet to the aisles and grab your Doritos. Hell, get the family sized bag if you want. They are simply stopping stores from using that psychological trick of pushing junk food to the checkout. Its ok to regulate harmful products like junk good that cost our society immensely. We already do this with cigarettes and alcohol. But nobody is outright banning anything.

 

No council member is deciding what’s good for anyone to eat. People still have a choice on what they want to eat. It’s pathetic that even after it’s been pointed out that your claim in the OP is wrong you’re still continuing on with the lie.

 

An incredibly good point. High glycemic, refined Carbs are an absolute killer - vascular disease, diabetes and cancer.

 

I think I misunderstood the application here, and you are right. If it applies only to where the products are stocked, you are. The implication I read was that it couldn't be "sold" within the 3 ft.
Give the convoluted laws that California favors, I didn't give that the benefit of the doubt and consider it properly. I still think it is imposing restrictions on the stores, telling them how they can present their own goods, and that opens a door I don't like. But I stand corrected, they are not preventing the sales themselves.

 

Oh, gods! How will I ever be able to eat a candy bar now that I have to walk 20 feet to get it! The horror! The horror!