On Forced Health

Foods classified as healthy (those with low fat, low carbs, low sugar and overall low amount of taste) have been trendy for quite some time. To a person like me, a lover of good-tasting food rather than good-for-you food, this was only a minor annoyance. A small grocery store that only had low-fat frozen yogurt would result in my having to find high fat, high sugar, real ice cream somewhere else. But this is nothing compared to what is now taking place.
Healthy food is no longer remaining a trend. It is now becoming mandatory by law. Aside from my personal fears of fascism coming true more quickly than expected, I have always been an opponent of the health trend. Nutrition is, at best, a good estimate of what types of food are healthy. It is not science. The main studies conducted in the field of nutrition are correlational. Any true scientist can verify that correlations merely show relationships, but do not explain any underlying causes. This tidbit of information seems to have eluded the nutritionists. They constantly claim that 'this food' causes 'that ailment' based on a correlation between the two.
Furthermore, nutritionists form no testable predictions. They may spout out some predictions, but none that are falsifiable. E.g. A nutritionist will claim that a person who eats unhealthy will die at an earlier age. After being told of a man that ate bacon every day, drank heavily, chain smoked, and lived to be ninety-five, the nutritionist will not admit defeat. The response would be something to the effect of "Well if he didn't do all of those things, maybe he would've lived to be 110." If you changed the age of the man to 110, they would say he could've lived to 125. In short, if it cannot be falsified it isn't science.
On a side note, all sciences like to use the same definitions when using scientific terms. The chemist and physicist when referring to an electron are speaking of the same thing. All science is like this so that information can be shared. Nutrition fails in this department. A calorie is a unit of heat equivalent to 4.184 joules. The true standard is the amount of heat required to raise one gram of water by one degree Celsius. One thousand such units is called a kilocalorie, but nutritionists call it a calorie instead. So their use of the word is different from the rest of science.
But enough of that long tangent I went off on. My main gripe is with the nutrition and health that is being forced upon me. Chicago first started the proposal to eliminate trans-fats by law, along with a number of other so-called bad foods. New York has now followed suit. Personal choice be damned, health is becoming the law. But I don't want to be healthy and miserable. I want to be unhealthy and happy. I want to eat greasy bacon until my arteries are clogged. I want to drink a ton of beer while eating some high fat snack food loaded with MSG. I want the fats I consume to have hydrogens across from each other instead of on the same side!
I never thought that the Stallone movie Demolition Man would be so prophetic. But I suppose this is a logical consequence to allowing the Constitution to be trampled upon. Everyone stood by and allowed the government to violate personal rights in order to prevent death by an act of terrorism. The government has now extended this to violate personal rights in order to prevent death by unhealthiness. Is this transition really that shocking? Apparently it is to some.
I have heard a number of people complaining about the new health law that will soon take effect in New York. Yet a lot of these people have stood up for the government when I complained about bag checks. To all of them, I say this: you can't have it both ways. You either want your freedom or you don't. You cannot stand there rooting and cheering them on as they pry open a can of worms, and then in the next instant complain that there are a bunch of worms everywhere.
Now aside from the fascist designs, there is another reason for these new laws. Health insurance costs are supposedly much higher due to problems caused by obesity. If everyone were healthy, costs would be lowered. But taking away freedoms is not the way to solve this problem. I have an alternate solution. Those that must receive regular medical attention due to not keeping healthy should simply pay more. You can claim that it isn't fair or it is discriminating, but in truth nothing could be more fair. I go to the doctor very rarely: less than once a year. Should I have to chip in to help pay the costs of someone else? Is that more fair? Certainly not.
In conclusion, I am going to continue to eat foods rich in flavour. I see it as my choice. I may have to cook it myself, but for the time being it is possible. Once I can no longer do that, I will flee the country. Truthfully, I would leave now if I had the means. Give me liberty, or I'll go out and search for it. And if it no longer exists anywhere, then give me death.