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Don pretty much hit the bullseye.
There are all sorts of things out there that can be bad for you, but taken in moderation, they're fairly harmless.
Will trans-fatty acids kill you? Of course, if all you eat is deep fried chicken that was cooked in melted shortening, or if you chomp down on a couple dozens of cookies that were baked using shortening, etc. However, eating a fried chicken dinner here and there, or enjoying a few cookies, isn't going to kill you.
It's all about the individual taking responsibility for his own actions. If someone gorges on KFC day in, day out, and then tops it off with no excercise, while plopping down on the couch to watch Oprah, munching on bon-bon's, then that's the choice of the individual. However, when that heart attack commences, there will be a moment in time where a bit of reckoning occurs. The individual will either thing "dang, I shouldn't have eaten that badly throughout the years" if he has a sense of responsibility, or will bleat "Cursed fast food places! They're trying to kill me!" if he is the type to try to pass the buck.
All I can say, is that the local government (or state, or federal) should butt out when comes to people eating what they want to eat. The last thing most of us here would ever want, is a miserable society like the one pictured in that awful Sylvester Stallone movie, "Demolition Man."
I'll be the first one to admit, that I enjoy my food, and that once in a long while, I'll splurge to buy me a thick cut of prime grade ribeye steak, rub in some raw horseradish root, grill it over hickory coals to medium rare perfection, and the top it with some steak butter and seasoned salt. I'll also enjoy a baked potato with sour cream and butter on the side, while washing it down with a couple draughts of cold Boddington's pub ale. Then I'll finish off this fine meal with a fine dessert of freshly baked peach cobbler with a nice heaping scoop of home made ice cream. Not the healthiest, which is why such a meal only comes maybe once every two months (that plus the cost...).
However, rest assured, for the next few days, I will take those extra hours of training. I know how bad the above meal is, and I will take steps to work it off. It's MY responsibility to make sure that I live a healthy life, and if those meals somehow end up killing me, then that's my own fault, nobody else's. I had the choice not to eat such meals, and I have the choice to engage in more excercise.
On a similar note, remember...
Sturm-Ruger should not be held responsible for the actions of Colin Fergeson. Fergeson had every chance in the world to do the right thing, and instead, chose to commit criminal acts.
The Jack Daniels Distillery should not be held responsible for the incident in Chappaquidick. That was entirely the fault of the driver, who had every chance in the world to not get horribly intoxicated, and even had the chance to save the drowning passenger, but chose poorly...
There are all sorts of things out there that can be bad for you, but taken in moderation, they're fairly harmless.
Will trans-fatty acids kill you? Of course, if all you eat is deep fried chicken that was cooked in melted shortening, or if you chomp down on a couple dozens of cookies that were baked using shortening, etc. However, eating a fried chicken dinner here and there, or enjoying a few cookies, isn't going to kill you.
It's all about the individual taking responsibility for his own actions. If someone gorges on KFC day in, day out, and then tops it off with no excercise, while plopping down on the couch to watch Oprah, munching on bon-bon's, then that's the choice of the individual. However, when that heart attack commences, there will be a moment in time where a bit of reckoning occurs. The individual will either thing "dang, I shouldn't have eaten that badly throughout the years" if he has a sense of responsibility, or will bleat "Cursed fast food places! They're trying to kill me!" if he is the type to try to pass the buck.
All I can say, is that the local government (or state, or federal) should butt out when comes to people eating what they want to eat. The last thing most of us here would ever want, is a miserable society like the one pictured in that awful Sylvester Stallone movie, "Demolition Man."
I'll be the first one to admit, that I enjoy my food, and that once in a long while, I'll splurge to buy me a thick cut of prime grade ribeye steak, rub in some raw horseradish root, grill it over hickory coals to medium rare perfection, and the top it with some steak butter and seasoned salt. I'll also enjoy a baked potato with sour cream and butter on the side, while washing it down with a couple draughts of cold Boddington's pub ale. Then I'll finish off this fine meal with a fine dessert of freshly baked peach cobbler with a nice heaping scoop of home made ice cream. Not the healthiest, which is why such a meal only comes maybe once every two months (that plus the cost...).
However, rest assured, for the next few days, I will take those extra hours of training. I know how bad the above meal is, and I will take steps to work it off. It's MY responsibility to make sure that I live a healthy life, and if those meals somehow end up killing me, then that's my own fault, nobody else's. I had the choice not to eat such meals, and I have the choice to engage in more excercise.
On a similar note, remember...
Sturm-Ruger should not be held responsible for the actions of Colin Fergeson. Fergeson had every chance in the world to do the right thing, and instead, chose to commit criminal acts.
The Jack Daniels Distillery should not be held responsible for the incident in Chappaquidick. That was entirely the fault of the driver, who had every chance in the world to not get horribly intoxicated, and even had the chance to save the drowning passenger, but chose poorly...
