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Ah, the Heart Attack Grill. You've probably heard of it, either because you've been to Las Vegas or because owner Jon Basso frequently appears as a guest on Fox News for reasons that none of us can figure out but probably ...
You know what is serious, though? Stopping ?busy body groups? who want to take away our right to have a heart attack. Dressed, as always, like a doctor (but without any sexy girls this time?), Basso explained:
?Look, the restaurant, and I would like to call it the clinic, the Heart Attack Rrill is not just a place to get a Bypass Burger or Flat Liner Fries or Butter Fat Shake. What it?s all about is a place where you can live the way our founding fathers intended us to live. And that is by our own accord, without encroachment from any busy body groups or governmental agencies that are trying to tell us what to do, trying to dictate to us not just what we think and how we act, but the most insidious dictation of all and that is what we eat.?
Anyway, after the interview, Fox News? Juliet Huddy summed up the entire point saying, ?If you don?t like it, just don?t go there? and that she?d love to go herself.
You know, we?re wasting our time always having Basso come to Fox News. Clearly, the extremely fit Fox News personalities should go there. Why don?t we ever see that? It would make for much better television.
What is coming out of his mouth is utter bs, he is irresponsible but it's a free country. If you want to eat yourself to death, be my guest, you are a moron to do so.
Your comment that advocates personal responsibility and indivudual freedom must be rescinded immediately if you wish to keep your liberal nanny state membership card.
Just another trumped up strawman for right wingers to fume about. (See also : war on Christians & war on gun owners.) Yet oddly, their idea of freedom ends at legalizing marijuana.
As your individual freedom drives my health care premium through the roof every quarter,just so your personal responsibility isn't infringed and your individual ignorance to eat yourself into a coronary is maintained.And why would we ever want a NANNY STATE of healthy Americans,since that would detract from my investments in SICK CARE.
I just want every fat bastard out there to pay higher insurance costs to offset my costs. I don't care what you eat, how much you eat or who sells it to you, but your life style is costing me money.
Than you can start by soliciting a higher cost from the poverty class. since they are one of the fattest segments of the population.
I don't hate poor people, but have little use for adults who can't control their eating habits or don't know what they are actually eating. I do have sympathy for the children of the poor who's parents feed them fast food far too often. I know there is an argument that fast food is low cost, but having them drink cokes and other sugar drinks at an early age is not in their best long term health interest.
I don't remember the free market having a fat clause, only a smoking one, but I could be wrong. Also, I don't recall ever posting that I'm a big fan of the health care plan as written, because I'm not.
Yes, but not 63% of the population. That is the percentage of Americans who are overweight (36.6) or obese (26.5). This is not a DNA issue, it is matter of what you eat. The American diet has gone from a majority of whole foods (~85%) to one of processed foods (~80) over the past few decades. Throw in the hormones in all meats and you have a fat country. You should check it out, there is plenty of information on the subject.
Agreed, sedentary lifestyle, poor eating habits, no exercise make up for a tubby America. But how do you know who's overweight due to pathology or poor habits?
With that in mind, we need every Macdonald's, steak joint, donut shop, and BBQ shack, to come on line and apologise as well. Good call.
Go suck a big nut you lib (-). No one is forced to go in that restaurant, but under Obama, you are forced to get insurance and religious organizations are forced to offer BC.
This may come as a surprise to you, but dietary choices that lead to heart disease don't give you a heart attack while you're still eating them.
I had the great misfortune of driving through Huntsville, Alabama, moving my daughter back from college in Sewanee. It was early in the morning. My daughter was hungry. We stopped at a "family" restaurant, walking through a cloud of smoke to enter. Everyone was eating huge slices of thick fatty ham, biscuits glistening with butter or some other sort of oil, eggs friend in bacon drippings and grits. There was even a Grease Girl walking around with a tub of grease and a ladle liberally applying it to the grits. I ordered oatmeal (instant) and fruit (canned) salad. Couldn't get out of there soon enough. I bet if we had that breakfast club reunion, a full 10% would be absent due to death and another 10% unable to remove themselves from their ventilators to attend. Yet, not a single food policeman in sight. A bit of histrionics, Ditzy.
Personally, I'd rather read King's b.s. that that of the horde of snotty nosed kids who have come here in the last year to say "Hooray for our side!" You are just jealous that we aren't interested in the game of hacky sack you played today.
Again, Personal responsibility, The Guy who had the heart attack didn't have it from eating at the Heart Attack Grill, and What He ate was irrelevant, His problem, The road to that Heart Attack, started long before, by His choices in life style.
Certainly a factor, although genetics does play a role. There are people that live very healthy lifestyles and still have CAD. The inverse is true, a study done on a town in Italy revealed dangerous levels of cholesterol, HDL, triglycerides, with no CAD, amazing stuff. The restaurant gave the guy a heart attack? The title of this thread is suspect at best.
True- you cannot cheat the devil. You can help your health if you eat well and exercise, but it's the genetic crap shoot that will ultimately determine when you die. A friend in his fifties keeled over dead while on a bike ride through France- he had never smoked, didn't do drugs, ate properly, was never overweigh and exercised regularly, but the heart disease in his family, that had skipped his father's generation, got him. It's the death we all wish for ourselves, but we want to designate the "when." It's in the genes, folks, you don't get to choose them.
This is so baloney - you don't get a heart attack right away after eating a high fat meal. Heart attack frequently happens as a result of pre-existing heart disease being built up over the years. Your heart doesn't get clogged right away after eating high fat meal. To blame the Heart Attack Grill for his heart attack is ridiculous and reflects little understanding of cardiovascular disease. The cause and effect is totally misplaced. Anyone can have a heart attack at ANY restaurant, even Whole Foods Market! If it happens at WFM, should we blame WFM for his heart attack?!?!
The restaurant and its name are a statement about personal responsibility. He's as up front as possible about just what his food will do to you. However, as an American you should have every right to shovel that crap in your mouth if you choose to. We do not need busy body groups trying to dictate what we eat.
Could you be any more disingenuous? The low life span of the founding fathers days had little if anything to do with their diet and everything to do with the relatively backward state of medicine, and the fact that many more people died in infancy and childhood than they do now. In other words, that life span is an average. People on average probably ate much healthier diets than they now do, and for that matter were probably healthier, period.
But the founding fathers DID have a certain group of people to whom they dictated what could and could not be eaten. I think George Washington had over 200 in his group alone.
i can't speak to the intellect of whoever authored this particular headline... but i'm sure there are plenty of simpletons watching and reading who actually now believe that consuming a single hamburger can instigate a heart attack... this is the mindset that would have you believe global warming caused hurricane katrina...
Funny, is it not? That when the issue pertains to any other room of the house - or does not involve sexual choices; they are right there to tell you what you should and should not do. And are prepared to lobby to stop those choices.
The guy creates a strawman to get free pub, and you go right along for the ride. Who is telling this guy to close down? Is there a link where a goverment official is trying to put him out of business?
They can hit this guy for trans fat content, sodium, sugar..whatever...and tax the hell out if it once it crosses a threshold decided by our powerbrokers at the state and federal level.
I agree 100% with personal responsibility with what you eat (adults). That said the game is somewhat rigged as to what is presented to the public as far as healthy choices. Not only should adults investigate exactly what it is they are eating, but who is paying to get their product to market at the expense of more healthy choices. The Obama administration has done a pretty bad job of doing anything about the problem, despite the rights apoplectic reaction to the First Ladies healthy eating program (or whatever it is called). The Pres has gone along, and in some cases is worse on the isses, vs. the Bush admin. The farm subsidy in this country is one of the most corrupt enterprises in goverment, but money talks.
BTW - This is a conservative cause as far as I'm concerned and one that could win the repubs some street cred if they were to tackle it.
Doubt if this place has caused more problems than McDonalds, Burger King, or Wendy's. Only problem is the name of this place combined with the fact someone had a heart attack while eating there. At least he's honest about his product, unlike tobacco companies that claimed their product had no adverse effects.
He didn't give the guy a heart attack, you dolt. It's not the burger you're eating right then, and frankly the evidence that diet is that big a contributor is not that strong -- it's just one of the few things that *can* be controlled.
The guy walked into the place with a heart condition. You don't get a heart attack moments after eating something. The digestive process is not THAT fast.
Given that most of the United States eats grains, sugary, processed carbohydrates, eating at this place is considerably healthy in comparison to what is found in the common kitchen cub-bard. Now I have another reason to travel to Vegas, so I can eat at this place.
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