Why are we allowing the state to put us on a diet?

peter.suber's bookmarks 2018-12-30

Summary:

"This week, The Telegraph exposed plans by Public Health England to decree a permissible calorie content for various food portions. The proposed limits are ludicrously specific, presumably to lend them a spurious sense of scientific authority: convenience meals are to be capped at 544 calories, restaurant main courses at 951 calories, onion bhajis at 134 calories and so on.

No other country sets such maximums...."

 

Link:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/12/29/allowing-state-put-us-diet/

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Tags:

paternalism health

Date tagged:

12/30/2018, 10:18

Date published:

12/30/2018, 05:18