In California....

That nasty cancer-causing chemical acrylamide will be no more in potato chips.  No longer in fries and tater tots, either.  And companies will pay, including Heinz and Frito-Lay. 

"Acrylamide is produced when potatoes and other starchy foods are cooked at high temperatures. It is used industrially for treating sewage, and its presence in food was unknown in 1990 when California listed the chemical as a cancer-causing substance under Proposition 65. That initiative, passed in 1986, requires companies to post warnings of exposure to substances that cause cancer or birth defects.Swedish scientists were the first to detect acrylamide in food in a 2002 study. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is studying the chemical but has not imposed nationwide restrictions. The FDA has advised consumers that they can reduce the levels of acrylamide in fried potatoes by not over-browning them while cooking.

The settlement requires the potato chip producers to reduce acrylamide to 275 parts per billion in three years, a low enough level to avoid a Prop. 65 warning label. That amounts to a 20 percent reduction for Frito-Lay and an 87 percent reduction for Kettle Chips, Brown's office said. Little or no reduction will be needed for most Cape Cod chips, but one product, Cape Cod Robust Russets, will require a warning label, the attorney general said."

So why aren't there nationwide restrictions?

Read complete article HERE

Rep. John Read, R-Mississippi



It's difficult enough to get bars and their employees to follow the law and know when to stop serving intoxicated customers.

We know the sad reality of that all too well.

Imagine this.

Imagine if you are overweight.

On the upper end of that BMI scale.

You go into a restaurant.

The server comes to the table and looks you over....

and says "No food for you!"

Well, that just might be possible in Mississipi...the "fattest state in the nation."

That is, if Republican Rep. John Read has his way....

Read the article

Mississippi Considers Restaurant Ban for Obese    É  here

Boy, oh, boy...

Now that would be a hard one to enforce.

What....do you have booths with built-in scales?

Is obesity in the eye of the beholder?

I know there is a problem in our country, but are we capable of policing each other in regards to weight?

I know insurance costs have risen because of the health related issues for obesity.

But, it is not illegal to be huge.

And isn't it bad enough having an overweight doctor telling a patient they are fat?

Now they want a waitress to tell you?

How about this...

Look in a mirror. 

Check the size tag on your clothes.

Those two things will tell you right there.

Each person has to make up their own mind whether they will or will not lose weight.


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