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Would a calorie cap be reasonable?

• tredre3 6mo ago
  > Would a calorie cap be reasonable? A legislation that isn't possible to enforce is not reasonable, no. Banning cigarettes = easy to enforce. Banning sugar in soft drinks = easy to enforce. Limiting how many calories you can consume = how do you propose we do that? Do we even have the technology to track what someone eats? And do we carve out exceptions for athletes? If there was a way to cap calories without surgically inserting trackers into everybody I'm sure you'd see a lot less opposition to your idea.
  • dzhiurgis 6mo ago
    Make a lolly bag $100 and not $1 and your problem is solved
  • slibhb 6mo ago
    Whether something is possible to enforce seems like a sliding scale. We can totally imagine a world where a calorie cap is possible to enforce. In such a world, would it be reasonable?
• negura 6mo ago
  a better solution is banning processed foods which fall below a threshold for calories/micronutrient content (and no artificial enrichment allowed)