June 29th, 2012 by Len Saunders
From The San Francisco Chronicle?..
Nutrition and public policy expert Marion Nestle answers readers? questions in this column written exclusively for The Chronicle. E-mail your questions to food@sfchronicle.com, with ?Marion Nestle? in the subject line.
Q:Why do municipalities continue to try to tell us what to eat or drink through taxes (the 1-cent soda tax on the Richmond ballot in November) or outright bans (eliminating super-size soft drinks, proposed by Mayor Michael Bloomberg in New York)?
Richmond residents could just buy their sodas in neighboring towns, and 1 cent seems hardly enough to influence anyone. New Yorkers could just buy two drinks if they want more. Isn?t this all rather silly?
A: Silly? On the contrary. These are dead-serious attempts to address the health problems caused by obesity through ?environmental? change ? changing the context in which we make food choices.
By now, health officials are well aware that asking individuals to take responsibility for making their own healthy food choices hasn?t got a prayer of success in the face of a marketing environment that encourages people to eat everywhere, all day long, in very large portions and at relatively low cost.
This is the default food environment, where it?s useless to tell people they need to eat less and expect them to do it. They can?t. Instead, it makes sense to try to change the food environment to make healthy choices the easy choices.
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