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Originally Posted by Dnate Mars  I just can't subscribe to the mentality that most people are to stupid to make the right choices, therefore the government has to look out for us. |
Unfortunately I think people make a lot of bad choices when it comes to their own health whether they know about the risks or not, which, for parents and role models they then pass on to others.
I don't think it's stupidity but rather ignorance about the risk, habits, apathy, and perhaps a feeling of it'll happen to someone else, and then a whole host of excuses(why they couldn't avoid the problems) when something does happen to them.
We all know about the dangers of smoking and have done for a long time, yet there are still people taking up the habit and then spending a long time regretting the addiction. For things like trans fat and hfcs the warnings aren't as in your face as 1/2 a pack of cigarettes covered in warnings. With transfat in a restaurant, most of the time a customer wouldn't have any way of telling whether it was used or not.