Fast food, once seen as a popular means of relieving the family occasionally from attempting to prepare full blown meals in-between work/school, and t-ball has now become a lifestyle choice. As women runners diet is essential. Since fast-food’s issuance with the opening of White Castle in 1921, people have flocked to the ease and relatively priced ‘meals’. Over the last 10 years, however, the American society alone has turned to eating out, and eating fast as a primary source for meals. Without even getting into the psychology of what situations this has caused for the American family, because that is a whole other giant article, let us just touch on what NY Times has to say about chain-fast-eateries.
The New York Times reports today on Los Angeles staging a fast food intervention. In regards to the difference in cost between fresh alive fruit and dead fast-food, according to David Zinczenko (editor in chief of Men’s Health magazine and author of several diet books) one might find government intervention in this matter easier to stomach.
The particular focus of this article concerns mandating the influx of fast food restaurants in poor neighbourhoods, namely South Los Angeles. The idea is that offering more places to purchase fresh food, as opposed to chain fast-food in said places will lessen the likelihood of obesity among the less fortunate who are faced with a genuine stretch of the all mighty dollar. Of course, the argument is, well, it is not just fast-food, but the lifestyle…time in front of the t.v. and video games, on the run, and working double time; all of which factor in to a person’s well being and all over health.
In addition to such factors, Zinczenko argues that the ban would assume some 500,000 people who live in South Los Angeles are intellectually incapable of deciding what to eat.
When involving the government in daily living decisions, the people’s rights are always at risk.
For me, this fast-food mandate would be like going to Uganda and handing the residents money. What the hell are they suppose to do with that? Give people skills and they will create a self-sustaining environment. Make an effort to strengthen a community from the inside by offering food preparation classes, time saving techniques, offer inner-city sports, begin running groups. Laws are boundaries, not solutions.
Two, fairly publisized movies in the last few years like Supersize Me and Fast Food Nation have stirred quite a bit of controversy on the billion dollar industry.
As an active women’s running community, what do you think?
