terratogen wrote:
] Through direct lobbying and influence from trade groups,
] the world's junk food oligopolies are once again using their
] economic and political power to make health policy, both in
] the United States and in the United Nations. Whatever the
] concerns about the "globesity" epidemic spreading from the US
] to the rest of the world, the food industry is making sure
] that it won't be hindered by any new laws, guidelines, or
] lawsuits.
]
] The US House of Representatives just passed a law ("The
] Personal Responsibility in Food Consumption Act", but
] nicknamed the Cheeseburger law) that would protect companies
] that sell junk food (McDonalds, Burger King, and so on) from
] obesity lawsuits. A few of these lawsuits have been much in
] the news lately, using the much-derided argument that "the
] company made me eat it" through its marketing campaign and
] pricing policies. While judges have quickly thrown out the few
] such lawsuits that have come to them, the food companies and
] the beneficiaries of their campaign funds in the legislature
] rammed through the bill, supported by the White House. (It
] still has to pass the Senate, which is considered
] unlikely.)
]
] Its odd that now that the smoking war is more or less settled,
] the fat police have picked up the torch. No one eats junk
] food because it is healthy. Fat food, cigarettes and drugs
] are all about a dopamine fix. The damage that occurs is
] largely the fault of the abuser.

We ought to expand the war on drugs to the neurotransmitters/receptors through which they cause their effects. The war on Dopamine and Seratonin! Monitor people's levels, and arrest them if they get out of whack.