Tuesday, March 23, 2010

How health care reform affects your burgers and tans

Recently, a health bill was signed in my President Obama. This bill is the most sweeping news within four decades. It changed restaurants and tanning salons. Restaurants now had to have it so twenty locations contain calorie information on their products. This calorie information would now definitely go unnoticeable. Average people consume two thousand calories a day. When eating at a typical chain restaurant, people consume more than twenty-five percent of their daily diet. This routine of eating can, and most likely, will lead to obesity. The bill permitting this information about calories is most certainly positive because it will allow common citizens to be more aware of their eating habits and hopefully change to a better diet. In the situation of tanning salons, a change was made a well. Because of their danger to the body, the bill states an extra ten percent must be added to the total. To pay more just to put yourself in harm, while being aware of the precautions, just seems absurd so me and probably most people who do not go indoor tanning. Overall, it has come to my attention, that this bill made appropriate changes for the wellbeing of people and now guarentees citizens to have more significant information of taking care of themselves and their health.

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