People don’t like being told how and what to eat and rebel. The latest from New York and Mayor Bloomberg’s health experiment:
Over at the Atlantic, two economics professors who focus their research on food economics introduce a bit of reality into the equation:
In similar lab settings, this kind of approach has inspired various forms of rebellion among study participants. For example, openly serving someone lowfat or reduced-calorie meals tends to lead to increased fat or calorie consumption over the whole day. People reason that because they were forced to be good for one meal, they can splurge on snacks and desserts at later meals.
Referring to the 2008 law that mandated the posting of calorie counts in the city’s chain restaurants. When researchers studied the law’s effect, they “found that people had, in fact, ordered slightly more calories than the typical customer had before the labeling law went into effect.”
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So just keep forcing free people to do what they do not want to do. Soon you have rebellion or no free people.
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i like being shown the number of calories in what i’m eating. I don’t like the govt trying to restrict me from buying a big soda or a whole pizza or or a foot long sandwich or a whole box of cereal or cookies. But at least if i want to know how many calories are in my Nathan’s french fries i can.