Let me see if I get this right, we have the right to choose an abortion but not the right to choose what we eat?

Watch out! The Heath Nazi are on out in force again. 

Southern by birth, Tarheel by the grace of God!

Gupta admitted even fast-food restaurants offer some healthy choices:“But people have to choose them,” complained Gupta.

When those folks sued McDonalds for their obesity, someone joked (at least I think it was a joke) that McD's and others could be held repsonsible for their illness, just like bartenders could be held for serving someone too many drinks, if that patron went out and drove drunk and killed someone.

Can't you just see it?

#2 Cheeseburger meal, supersize the fries, please.

Sorry, sir, you're already obese, I can't serve you anything but the salad with light dressing.

I am so glad I don't live in LA anymore.  Obnoxious, recylced turds like Jan Perry, Janice Hahn, Eric Garcetti, Jack Weiss and disgraced former police chief Bernard Parks keep getting elected to the City Council to pass retarded nanny-state bills like this one that end up causing irreparable damage to the city.  Then they steal taxpayer money to pay exorbitant settlements out to shakedown artists claiming racism.  They work in conjunction with the labor goonions to intimidate legitimate businesses from coming into the community to expand their tax base...then they complain about the poverty that THEY caused.  And the dumb voters keep rewarding the behavior be re-electing them.  Most of these idiots are elected simply by name recognition...either because they got much local media coverage over the years or through nepotism.

And it's always the fat ones like Jan Perry who crusade against fast food chains to the detriment of those they claim to be helping.  A few years ago, an obese legislator by the name of Debra Ortiz tried a similar socialist scam on the soda companies.  She wanted to add a supplemental tax on the purchase of each can of soda to fund a school program that was supposed to teach children not to drink soda.  And she was going to tack it on at the distribution level...effectively creating a double tax at the retail level.  In presenting the idea, she was a typically condescending, know-it-all finger wagger.  Fortunately a couple of KFI radio hosts exposed this attempted fraud and killed it before it had a chance to pass.   

This has been the situation for decades. You gotta wonder who put this burr under her saddle.
Years ago I saw a TV press conference called by Black community leaders scolding the fastfood industry for not locating their stores in ghetto areas. They called it a form of racisim that they were not allowed to benefit.
Fast forward to today and they are singing a different tune.
Here's a discussion on the ghetto/grocery situation.

“But people have to choose them,” complained Gupta.

Er - Dr. Gupta - wouldn't people still have to choose to eat in a "healthy restaurant" - whatever that is? And exactly how much is a dinner going to cost at these "healthy restaurants"? Will Coucilwoman Perry next propose a price lid on these "healthy restaurants" she thinks will flock to open in her neighborhood, once fast food restaurants are banned? Liberals, like Perry, operate on the level of a seventh grade social studies class...

Stories like these push me that much closer to joining the Libertarian party.  I'll let people smoke pot if they'll let me eat my occasional fried chicken in peace.