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the case for food restrictions would be a lot stronger if my consumption of soda at a hospital caused sugar to be injected There's no proposal here to restrict
by reflexive 10y ago
the case for food restrictions would be a lot stronger if my consumption of soda at a hospital caused sugar to be injected
There's no proposal here to restrict consumption. It's the hospital's choice what they want to sell at their own concessions. They can't sell every possible beverage, so it doesn't make sense to sell sugary ones at the expense of healthier alternatives.
Just like you need to bring your own cigarettes to the hospital if you want to smoke - don't expect the staff to provide them.
- SilasX 10y agoSorry, I should have said "hospital menu policy restrictions". (It seems like a pedantic point anyway; the fact that you're under no obligation to provide X does not imply that you don't have a policy restricting your provision of X. Plus, the comparison was to hospital smoking bans not e.g. cigarette vending)
- reflexive 10y agoLast time I was at a hospital and wanted to buy a snack from the cafeteria, nearly all the options were loaded with sugar (coke, ice cream, etc). I'd say that non-sugary options are being subject to "hospital menu policy restrictions" at this point.
- SilasX 10y agoHah! Very true! There are probably several factors that influence what foods they offer and which results in their current general policies about what to stock. It probably makes more sense to first audit what those factors are and why they exist; otherwise, additional restrictions are more likely to force them into more expensive options since they'd have to obey the existing (probably ridiculous) constraints.