The choice is yours Q: What is your opinion on restaurants being required to stop using trans-fats in their menu items? JVW: While I oppose unnecessary legislation in all cases, selective legislation like this just isn't good for anyone. It boils down to a government attempt to force you into making what they consider healthy food choices. Unfortunately, in all too many cases, their ideas of healthy foods -- think lots of carbohydrates and dairy products -- are skewed, to say the least. Plus, this feeble attempt at "helping" consumers make healthier choices just seems too little too late. Once you're standing in line at McDonald's, are you really weighing the healthfulness of the different options? Let's get real: This is just a thinly veiled precursor to los Federales going that extra step and outlawing junk food altogether. It's just one more way the government has found to make us a little less "free," and I can't, in good conscience, get on board with it. Of course, I want you to eat healthy too -- but I certainly don't want to force you to do it. I believe that we should all have the freedom to make our own decisions on how to stay healthy -- from using supplements right down to what entrée you order when you eat out. And forcing restaurants to undergo the time and expense to recreate all their menus and recipes violates the Constitutional relationship our government is supposed to have with businesses in this country. Without true political freedom -- the kind originally established back in 1776, meant to keep the forcible hand of "government" out of our daily lives -- not only the best of health, but the best of anything simply isn't possible.
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