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Are they ever going to make this idea a law? It's GOTTA help make better food choices. Anybody have any more info??
Those kinds of labels really cannot be very accurate. An hour's run for you and and hour's run for me might be two different things based on our respective ages, genders, current weights and our running speeds. It's a nice thought, and an understanding of the physical activity required to balance the particular food would be a good thing, but I wouldn't count on the accuracy of any labels.
An hour's run is useless information for a quadriplegic, who might take offense, have his lawyer contact some random disability rights organization, and file a class action suit against the company (or worse - the government) for daring to discriminate and/or demonstrate bias against the disabled.
Also, if you're too lazy to look this stuff up yourself, then you're probably not going to benefit from the information anyway
You really think some fattie is going to rethink eating that pack of oreos because they see that info on them?
Damn..the package already tells you how many calories are in the one serving. How many calories come from fat. How many grams of fat. What the hell else do you want???? Packages that excerise for you??
I've got a fattie in my office who thinks he's eating healthy by eating these veggie straws....they are 50% fat. Yup...healthy.
offending ppl aside ( and it's a great point) ppl are going to eat what they want no matter what.
I don't know why you have to generalize like that Kim, and refer to anyone who might benefit from the information as a "fattie". OR why people who are eating oreos are "fatties". Or why people who might be interested in knowing how much energy one has to expend to burn off the consumption of a particular object, a "fattie".
I'm not sure why you feel you have to use the term at all. People who are health-conscious, regardless of their current weight, -could- use the information. Some of them might even appreciate the information.
My point, was that the information is readily available online, or in various paperback books, and that it would be pretty impossible to appropriately label things with exercise options, without causing offense to one or another special interest group.
Are they ever going to make this idea a law?
It's GOTTA help make better food choices.
That's what people were screaming when they were trying to make it law that packaged food must contain a nutrition label with calories, carbs, proteins, and fats. They finally got the labels on all packaged food, and now anyone can spin their can of soda around and see that it has 38 grams of sugar. Wanna guess how many people actually look? Out of those that look, wanna guess how many actually care?
I don't know why you have to generalize like that Kim, and refer to anyone who might benefit from the information as a "fattie". OR why people who are eating oreos are "fatties". Or why people who might be interested in knowing how much energy one has to expend to burn off the consumption of a particular object, a "fattie".
I'm not sure why you feel you have to use the term at all. People who are health-conscious, regardless of their current weight, -could- use the information. Some of them might even appreciate the information.
My point, was that the information is readily available online, or in various paperback books, and that it would be pretty impossible to appropriately label things with exercise options, without causing offense to one or another special interest group.
Oh, that's right...it's not their fault their fat...it's society.
You sure are offensive.
Needlessly offensive. Why not just use the word overweight??
Calling somebody a 'fattie' is just wrong.
Grow up.
Your entitled to your opinion. Thank you for expressing it.
And the fattie I was referring to isn't overweight, he's 450 lbs.
So now the truth is offensive? You don't think he knows he's livin large? Really? Truth hurts, but it's not offensive.
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