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Healthy eating must be an individual responsibility because we are all made up differently and are living in a different part of the country . That has given many of us different needs for healthily lifestyles. That is an obvious point when you compare El Peso Texas with Boston Massachusetts. It is pretty obvious that the environment has a large effect on us.

Another deciding factor is rooted in the kinds of food that have been eaten by our families for years. That can be observed in New Mexico where many places offer some form of extra hot Chile and jalapenos. That is reinforced in Hawaii where several forms of Oriental food is up for sale. The island makes several kinds of food using fish which are not available any where else. Is it going to become illegal to eat some Mexican style food and burn your throat or is the government going to make it mandatory that every gringo eat some no matter how much it makes your throat burn?

Large chain restaurants also reflect the desires of the customers living where the branch is located. Pizza Hut would sell Pizza with fish pver in Hawaii and they sell Pizza with Buffalo in South Dakota. Is the Federal Government going to start mandating what kinds of ingredients can be used while making pizza throughout the country or is it going to start making them completely illegal?

One thing that just about every long haul trucker learns fairly quickly is that breakfast is served differently all over the country. That was even reinforced while I was on active duty and the mess hall would ocasionally serve a different kind of breakfast to keep all the troops happy. We are getting to the point that meals are served differently all over the country. I just don't think forcing everyone to eat a certain type of meal as regulated by the Federal Government is going to fit in well.

Is the government qualified enough to decide how much fat is allowed in the ground beef? In my case, it has been found that 81 percent ground beef works just as well as fat free ground beef. I stick with that form because it is the cheapist of the two. There is no way the government should be allowed to force people to buy an expensive kind of food that they really have no need to eat.

It was the government that passed the laws requiring milk companies to add a lot of vitamins to the milk as it is bottled. That gave them the excuse to add sugar which just makes the milk a lot unhealthier to drink than the old type was. In that case, an example has been made of how governmental regulation doesn't always improve the nutritional value of the food purchased today. After one small mistake like that has been made allowing the government to heavily regulate our daily nutrition would only benefit the hospitals around the country when they start recieving more patients.

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