Fast Food Calorie Counting

States are requiring fast food chains to post caloric content in their restaurants. This is, of course, arbitrary targeting of one type of business over others, and so it is a great example of why the government can not actually protect citizens by central planning. Bureaucrats and politicians simply can not have all of the information that is needed to evaluate what is best for every individual. But, in this case, the politicians in Massachusetts are ignoring a recent (federally-funded, of course) study that shows that fast food restaurants are not always the worst offenders in high calorie restaurants.

Actually, you could probably make a case that the economic bubble has, in part, led to America’s expanding waistline. With easy cash, Americans may have chosen to eat out more, rather than enjoy lower-calorie home-cooked meals. Will the recession be the new fad diet?

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4:44 pm on January 8, 2009