FRIED COFFEE

I carry a few extra pounds and have changed my diet to address the issue. My choices center mostly on fish and chicken with an occasional cheeseburger, Philly steak, gyro, etc. As a somewhat intelligent adult, I can pretty much figure out what to avoid when dining out, or, perhaps I splurge and set the diet aside for the night.

If someone has an allergy or sensitivity they need only make that known when placing the reservation, and should expect accommodation or look elsewhere.

The effort to legislate the addition of nutritional information to menus seems to me an effort to treat the symptom rather than the disease.

There are a lot of reasons for childhood obesity and obesity in general :

1) We can think about Madison Avenue and Saturday morning advertising to children.

2) We can see the suggestive placement of certain foods by the grocers on shelves where kids can readily see them.

3) We must realize that lower income levels cannot afford a lot of the more nutritional and more expensive foods, (i.e. salmon as opposed to sausage).

4)There is a lack of time, and loss of experience, for the art of home cooking due to the need for both parents, (if there are two) to work.

5) A Google search for school cafeteria menus gives us a look at what kids are eating.

I believe we would be better served by concentrating on nutritional education in the home and at the elementary school level.

There is also the issue of high fructose corn syrup,  but ………………..that’s another post.