Food police

Next time you are out to dinner, instead of saying "Hunny pass the salt," you may be saying "Pass the calorie chart, please."

By Angelina DePetrillo-Bucci
Food Fasci-nation

This restaurant serves three plate-sized pancakes per order, drowning in butter and syrup. Calorie count: off the charts.
If you coat apples with chocolate, marshmallows and candy, are they still considered health food?

The question is, do you really need everything you eat to be dissected into a chart of calories and carbs? Did we not all learn to eat our peas and carrots and not to spoil our dinner with junk food?

I conducted a quick survey, in which perhaps my sample pool consisted only of my four roommates, but in any event, 100 percent of those polled selected “no” when asked if they thought something called “Death by Chocolate” was going to be good for them.

Strangely enough they got it all on their own, and did not even need city officials to come and slap them on the wrist and tell them to eat more veggies.

One might argue that there is no harm in giving people more information, but I beg to differ. Americans are overweight, not because we can’t figure out that “Super-sizing” is not the healthiest idea, but because we are obsessed with food.

Psychologist Biing Shen is a clinical reasearcher. He says, "Obsessive thinking about food and calories, as well as using food to fulfill other parts of one’s life are signs of both anorexia and obesity."

Not to oversimplify things but, stop thinking about it so much. If we just ate when we were hungry and stopped when we were full we would not need the state to come in and intrude on our nights out, with subtle little reminders that we did not need that second cocktail or we could have gotten that latte without whipped cream.

Go for the Death By Chocolate. Savor it. Enjoy it. Eat it until you are full, and do not think about it anymore.