But it’s so true. Like banning/removing king size chocalate bars. All we’re doing is encouraging people to be less responsible for themselves. The same happens with over-protective H&S legislation. In effect we’re tampering with natural selection and preserving the ‘stupid’ genes.
[...] SciencePunk » Junk Food Science – SciencePunk picks apart the whole notion of “advertising junk food to children”, pointing out that (1) it’s the parents that buy food in the main, not kids, and (2) there’s actually no such thing as junk food – only bad overall diet. [...]
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1. Ian | August 21st, 2007 at 2:20 pm
But it’s so true. Like banning/removing king size chocalate bars. All we’re doing is encouraging people to be less responsible for themselves. The same happens with over-protective H&S legislation. In effect we’re tampering with natural selection and preserving the ‘stupid’ genes.
2. My del.icio.us bookmarks &hellip | August 22nd, 2007 at 9:02 pm
[...] SciencePunk » Junk Food Science – SciencePunk picks apart the whole notion of “advertising junk food to children”, pointing out that (1) it’s the parents that buy food in the main, not kids, and (2) there’s actually no such thing as junk food – only bad overall diet. [...]
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