Comments on: LA’s Year Old Ban on New Fast Food Restaurants Doomed to Fail http://healthblog.ncpa.org/la%e2%80%99s-year-old-ban-on-new-fast-food-restaurants-doomed-to-fail/ Health Care Policy and Reform Insights | NCPA Thu, 24 May 2012 19:02:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Brian W. http://healthblog.ncpa.org/la%e2%80%99s-year-old-ban-on-new-fast-food-restaurants-doomed-to-fail/comment-page-1/#comment-47209 Brian W. Mon, 19 Oct 2009 23:21:12 +0000 http://www.john-goodman-blog.com/?p=6062#comment-47209 The only place I know of where this has worked well is North Korea. It completely elminated any chance they'd have an obesity epidemic. The only place I know of where this has worked well is North Korea. It completely elminated any chance they’d have an obesity epidemic.

]]> By: Devon Herrick http://healthblog.ncpa.org/la%e2%80%99s-year-old-ban-on-new-fast-food-restaurants-doomed-to-fail/comment-page-1/#comment-47207 Devon Herrick Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:42:49 +0000 http://www.john-goodman-blog.com/?p=6062#comment-47207 It's truly amazing that people would actually think that by banning all new fast food establishments, healthier, sit-down restaurants would proliferate and people would somehow switch from a diet of fried chicken, Big Macs and french fries to eat tofu and salad. If people wanted tofu and salad, the purveyors of tofu and salad would have built eateries in South LA long ago. It’s truly amazing that people would actually think that by banning all new fast food establishments, healthier, sit-down restaurants would proliferate and people would somehow switch from a diet of fried chicken, Big Macs and french fries to eat tofu and salad.

If people wanted tofu and salad, the purveyors of tofu and salad would have built eateries in South LA long ago.

]]> By: Vicki http://healthblog.ncpa.org/la%e2%80%99s-year-old-ban-on-new-fast-food-restaurants-doomed-to-fail/comment-page-1/#comment-47196 Vicki Mon, 19 Oct 2009 21:04:57 +0000 http://www.john-goodman-blog.com/?p=6062#comment-47196 That's a very appropriate video pairing. It somehow captures the spirit of California lunacy. That’s a very appropriate video pairing. It somehow captures the spirit of California lunacy.

]]> By: Larry C. http://healthblog.ncpa.org/la%e2%80%99s-year-old-ban-on-new-fast-food-restaurants-doomed-to-fail/comment-page-1/#comment-47193 Larry C. Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:42:24 +0000 http://www.john-goodman-blog.com/?p=6062#comment-47193 Good point Linda. Good point Linda.

]]> By: Linda Gorman http://healthblog.ncpa.org/la%e2%80%99s-year-old-ban-on-new-fast-food-restaurants-doomed-to-fail/comment-page-1/#comment-47192 Linda Gorman Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:41:41 +0000 http://www.john-goodman-blog.com/?p=6062#comment-47192 Since when are calories "unhealthy?" Since when are calories “unhealthy?”

]]> By: Joe S. http://healthblog.ncpa.org/la%e2%80%99s-year-old-ban-on-new-fast-food-restaurants-doomed-to-fail/comment-page-1/#comment-47191 Joe S. Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:41:20 +0000 http://www.john-goodman-blog.com/?p=6062#comment-47191 Truly amazing that anybody thought this experiment was going to work. Truly amazing that anybody thought this experiment was going to work.

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