Comments on: “Telling McDonald’s it can open franchises only in the white part of town”

By: Tom

Tom — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 20:07:41 +0000

If you go by this article provided by Men’s Health that rates the relative healthiness of dining out, McDonald’s gets a “B” while Chipotle gets a “D” and restaurants like Applebee’s and Outback get “F”s.

http://health.yahoo.com/experts/eatthis/11230/americas-bestand-worstrestaurants/

The reality is that hamburgers simply aren’t health food–and a hamburger at McDonald’s isn’t necessarily worse than a hamburger at Ruby Tuesday’s. In fact, it is probably even be better than a burrito from Chipotle.

By: William Nuesslein

William Nuesslein — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 13:03:53 +0000

Tedjack is correct about the relationship between poverty and nutrition. I recall the elation I had when encountered the datum several years ago. Our country overcame a problem that was pronounced in draftees for World War II.

I recommend that all read junkfoodscience.blogspot.com a few times. Sandy Swartz knows what she is talking about. As someone who loves Science, I think Sany Szwarc is just terrific.

By: teqjack

teqjack — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 20:48:32 +0000

And the “science” behind all this is nonexistent lots of links, in particular to the actual studies, at –
http://junkfoodscience.blogspot.com/2008/08/were-not-eating-so-badly.html
. . .
In contrast to widespread beliefs that minorities and poorer people eat nutritionally worse and more calorie-dense diets, the nutrient intakes by race/ethnicity show that whites averaged 2,198 kcal/day — more than Blacks at 2,095 kcal and Mexican-Americans at 2,109 kcal. Diets were similar among the ethnic/racial groups in most major nutrients such as sugars and proteins.
. . .
The prejudicial belief that poor people eat worse diets was also not supported in this government data, just as it hasn’t in 196 studies conducted in the U.S. and other developed countries, recently reviewed.

By: nevins

nevins — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 16:30:24 +0000

*said with Al Gore fanaticism*

My god people, food kills. and it is killing (buzzwords here) minorities, women, and children at a disproportionate rate. Blacks are bearing the unfortunate burden of their own food choices. We must stop the killing. We must stop people from a slow death drawn out over 50, 60, even 70 years, during which time they enjoy the savory flavors and scrumptions smells of Mcburgers.

By: VMS

VMS — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 16:29:59 +0000

A sure way to become a litigaiton magnet is to step on the financial toes of a corporate giant that has the where-with-all to hire a top notch firm and promply march into federal court with a show cause order seeking a TRO. It also greatly helps if the corporate giant has an ironclad case.

I’m sure that individual residents of South Central may try to sue claiming that the gummint is trying to redline their district on racial grounds. Whether they have standing is not a straightforward issue, but I’m sure that it will be litigated.

The citizens of LA probably do not want their tax money spent on defending these lawsuits. Also they are probably not happy about the needless loss of a good tax base.

I can’t imagine The Getty Center Restaurant or Grace (two upscale LA eateries) or any other restaurant filling the void in South Central. Maybe the gummint should figure out how to offer fine dining in South Central at McDonald’s prices.

By: Heather

Heather — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 16:01:38 +0000

Require them to eat certain entrees at certain restaurants? Why not just prepare their meals altogether, and force ’em to sit down while you watch them eat it? Like elementary school.

By: Roy B

Roy B — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:25:43 +0000

Beyond the legal issues, how about; Will the council require health food restaurants (per their definition) to open, will they make certain that healthy food is served in city run food kitchens, will they put an expenditure into the city budget to pay for locations serving healthy food to be opened in the neighborhoods? Which leads to the question that if they do open such a place or places, will the residents be required to eat at them?