California, of course)
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Limits proposed on fast-food restaurants
The Los Angeles Times ^ | Tami Abdollah
As America gets fatter, policymakers are seeking creative approaches to legislating health. They may have entered the school cafeteria -- and now they're eyeing your neighborhood.
Amid worries of an obesity epidemic and its related illnesses, including high blood pressure, diabetes and heart disease, Los Angeles officials, among others around the country, are proposing to limit new fast-food restaurants -- a tactic that could be called health zoning.
The City Council will be asked this fall to consider an up to two-year moratorium on new fast-food restaurants in South L.A., a part of the city where fast food is at least as much a practicality as a preference.
"The people don't want them, but when they don't have any other options, they may gravitate to what's there," said Councilwoman Jan Perry, who proposed the ordinance in June, and whose district includes portions of South L.A. that would be affected by the plan.
In just one-quarter of a mile near USC on Figueroa Street, from Adams Boulevard south, there are about 20 fast-food outlets.
"To be honest, it's all we eat," Rey Merlan said one recent lunch hour at a Kentucky Fried Chicken. "Everywhere, it's fast food everywhere."
Merlan said it wasn't likely that a limit on new restaurants would change peoples' habits, even though he thinks it's a good idea.
A Times analysis of the city's roughly 8,200 restaurants found that South Los Angeles has the highest concentration of fast-food eateries. Per capita, the area has fewer eating establishments of any kind than the Westside, downtown or Hollywood, and about the same as the Valley. But a much higher percentage of those are fast-food chains. South L.A. also has far fewer grocery stores.
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I think the anti fast food place buzz is geared to get people to prepare healthier food at home. But many people simply don't know how to cook, or choose to not cook, or don't have the time to cook, and often when they do, the meals they cook aren't really any more healthy than what they could have gotten faster at a fast food place (without the dishes to wash). This is a generation of more moms & dads both working - more so than ever before I bet, and it translates into less time. Fast food is an easy out. I am not endorsing fast food - personally, I can't stand fast food, and rarely eat it (except subway & chinese food take out, & once in a while, some fried chicken). I'm just saying that even if they could force people to cook more meals at home - it won't mean the meals will taste better or be healthier. Too often, cooking at home is a TV dinner or pot pie.
Sweet onion chicken teriyaki - yummmm.
Ya gotta get it toasted, and eat it fast, because it's messy (from the sweet onion dressing). If you let it sit, it'll get messier. I order double chicken. The chicken already has seasoning & a sauce on it, so you could always skip the dressing. (I wish Subway would just sell the sauce separately, like Arby's used to do.) The BMT is my second favorite.
Usually a once-a-week take-out staple with me.
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BRING THE TROOPS HOME-NOW!
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"They keep talking about drafting a constitution for Iraq.Why don't we give them ours? It was written by a lot of really smart guys, and we're not using it any more".
opt for the Subway Melt, but I'll give that one a try too.
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BRING THE TROOPS HOME-NOW!
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"They keep talking about drafting a constitution for Iraq.Why don't we give them ours? It was written by a lot of really smart guys, and we're not using it any more".