i would be VERY happy to see all fast food dissapear forever. as someone who is in the gym 5 days a week, its very depressing to see that 95% of people have absolutely no concept of what proper diet and nutrition is. but i think that the bigger problem is just that. people are bombarded with 10,000,000 messages everyday telling them the wrong things. they are bombarded everyday with messages from a multi-billion dollar diet industry telling them the wrong things.

at the end of the day, people have to take some responsibility for themselves and they don't... this is a serious problem. they always have a reason to point the fingure elsewhere else as the source of their grief and that is what is killing people. not "trans-fats"

Have you looked for conflict of interest in those studies? The methods of those studies have been strongly questionned.. and many researchers do think that aspartame is dangerous... Eat it as you wish! :)

My entire family (and extended family) have been drinking diet citrus drop religiously for well over a decade now. Around fifteen total of us, plus a few friends, love the stuff. None of us have ever gotten worse from drinking it (and when I say drink it religiously I don't just mean a glass or two a day, we each drink at least a 2-liter of the stuff a day). Regardless, I have looked at the scientific studies and it overwhelmingly shows that it is safe for human consumption minus those with PKU. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspartame

Ok, so your opinion is that it's fake because you just dont believe it. Thats cool, everyone has an opinion :)

I found the minimum wage show to be absolutely believable and accurate. It doesnt take a scientist to know that $5.25 an hour, for 40 hours, does not give you a large savings to have 2 emergency room visits within 30 days and not have a severe impact on your finances. Point was made easily. One emergency room visit was $500 for the uninsured. And thats just walking in the door money.

And he used his niece and nephew to illustrate that a typical family with kids has it even tougher. As you might remember, he only spent like $10 on them at one store, and his wife gave him hell for it because their finances were so tight. That happens all the time in real life dont you think?

What were they supposed to film? Should he have gone to a local tv station with his resume and gotten a high paying consultant job for 30 days? What would that have shown about the countries typical minimum wage earner? *that* would have been staged IMHO :)

you seem to be missing the point... i am not saying that it was not "accurate" in terms of medical costs, living expenses etc. ANY CLOWN can understand that if two adults HAD to live on minimum wage (which they dont for any real period of time), that life would be difficult and barely survive. it wasn't a must that he had to go to the doctor for his supposed "wrist injury". nor was it for his wife her "cold". it definately wasn't something to prevent him from working and convienently cause lost wages. it wasn't a must that they take care of their neices/nephews while filming a show about trying to live in absolute poverty. it was a perfect coincidence that one was having a birthday which warranted celebrating with lunch and a movie and put them back in the red fnancially... the list goes on. it was staged every step of the way and done in a way to make a Michael Moore type political point. pure and simple.

What we really need are fast food places that serve up healthy food that tastes good.

I don't think people eat at McDonalds and Burger King because they love the food. It's just to save time. If Whole Foods were to open a chain of drive thrus that could compete with McDonalds in taste and price, people would eat there.

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I remember president bushes quote about moore, "If I want to see a work of fiction, I'll watch Shrek 2".

My point was that the message is the important thing, not the messenger or delivery of the message.

If I immediately discounted every attempt to get a point across because I distrust someone or someones motives, well.. I would ignore everything that comes out of the mouths of most people in high office.

But thats not very smart if I want to actually learn something, and see something from someone elses point of view.

And setting all of that aside, if "30 days" is poitically motivated but accurately portrays a certain set of circumstances and illustrates a need to change.. what difference does it make exactly? None that I can tell. Minimum wage is too low for republicans and democrats.

I couldn't agree more. It's not being done because of greed and laziness.

More fat and salt and sugar the better it tastes and one competitor is going to do it regardless of what the law says. The corporations determine the law through massive kickbacks and payoffs and lobbying. It's tough to enter morals and good sense when your opponent has billions of $ and you've got enough money to buy a Happy Meal.

We now know trans fatty acids are a death sentence. If someone put poison in our food shouldn't it be stopped?

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cut down on eating so much food that contains it you fat pigs.

learn moderation. Thats what Americans need to fucking do...moderation.

Moderation is not the only culprit. They pack that trans fat shit in food you wouldn't suspect. It's easy to blanket blame everyone but the bottom line is the shit is poison and should be banned totally and compensation made to the victims.

so what we're just NOW realizing that KFC is BAD for us???

http://pissyourself.com/smilies/qqb002.gif It's really horrible. Shopping for healthy food is almost impossible with all the junk that's out there.