Health Nazis Target Movie Snacks
by Big Hollywood
ABC News spends 2050 words explaining how irresponsible movie theater chains give their customers what they want slowly kill their customers with fatty, sugary high-caloric snacks:
Everyone expects to splurge a bit at the movies, but while your wallet may be able to handle an $8 tub of popcorn, your waistline may not — at least according to a new report released today by the consumers group Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI).
Even popcorn did not escape the scrutiny of the report, which mentioned that even a small bag of the cinema favorite tips the scales at 700 calories and three days worth of saturated fat.
It’s not the first time that CSPI has given movie popcorn two thumbs down; the new report is actually a sequel to one in 1994 that gave similar negative reviews. And like the first version, the most recent edition of CSPI’s Nutrition Action Health Letter suggests moviegoers forego that trip to the concession stand altogether.
The report looked at the popcorn, soda and candy sold at the country’s top three movie theater chains: Regal Entertainment Group, AMC Theaters, and Cinemark. The researchers tallied the calories, saturated fat, sugar, and sodium in each theater’s various sizes and combos. Based on their findings, the authors warn the public that their movie-time indulgences may be a lot more indulgent than they bargained for. …
Cinemark notes that these are the “snacks [patrons] desire” and is meant to be “an escape from their everyday lives.”
But nutritionists note that this may be a dangerous escape. Keith-Thomas Ayoob, an associate professor of pediatrics at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, noted that chowing down on cinema’s monstrous portion sizes of this greasy treat and washing it down with a sugary drink can turn even an occasional trip to the movies into a “calorie nightmare,” Ayoob said.
Read between the lines: “…may be a lot more indulgent than they bargained for.” Catnip for trial lawyers.
Phrases you’re unlikely to hear from ABC News:
- Your remorse after having an abortion might be more than you bargained for…
- The expense of ObamaCare might be more than you bargained for…
- Charlie Gibson’s ignorance about the ACORN story might be more than you bargained for…
Any minute now, Harry Reid will add a provision to the health-care bill making movie snacks illegal, add up the cost savings and declare it budget neutral.
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"Your remorse after having an abortion might be more than you bargained for…"
Ahhh, but abortion is constitutionally protected right, written in an invisible ink that can only be read by progressive judges. Movie popcorn, on the other hand, will make you fat – and fat people are an enormous strain on our health care system. When Obamacare has been passed, we will need to take steps to reduce that strain by penalizing obese Americans and the Greedy Popcorn Corporations that made them overweight.
That way, there will be plenty of money left over for free abortions.
Once we finally run the environazis, the foodnazis, and the libnazis out of America, we can get back to being the great country we used to be.
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So how smart is Hollywood? Expensive snacks is the reason why movie tickets aren't $40 each.
So much for "my body, my choice."
So you're pro-choice then, right?
Oh no! Now I have to hide my shame by getting popcorn made at home for much less then what the cinema charges for them, and save money on going to the movies to enrich the libs too. Great advice ABC!
You Repubutards are going through great lengths to prove Godwin's Law, aren't you.
LEAVE MY POPCORN ALONE!!! If I want to die eating popcorn in a theater, then that's my choice! For Hell's sake!
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I'm not really a popcorn guy, but the image of prying it from my cold dead greasy fingers amuses me.
Do these news people not have anything better to do than criticise what we eat? Go do a "study" on how unhealthy the women anchors look with their two inch in circumference arms and their skeletal faces. LEAVE ME ALONE!!! I don't need another MOTHER!
Wait, hold on. Are you trying to tell me junk food isn't healthy???? OMG! Everything I have ever believed has now been turned on its head!
Thank goodness ABC is around to ask the tough questions and make sure I'm informed…
Hollywood only seems to be cranking out liberal crap. I can stay at home with old movies and make my own snacks. Have a beer and a cigarette and keep money out of the liberals hands. After all, in a few more months of BHO policies I will need all my pennies to pay the new taxes so the WELFARE SET can enjoy the movies and the popcorn and their CATV and the Health Care that I get to pay for. Way to go Hollywood Liberals good luck on you getting raises out of thrifty Americans who will not waste our monies on your crap anymore.
700 Hundred calories and 3 days worth of saturated fats?
That's the best argument for actually going to a movie than I've heard in years!
They can pry my salted, butter coated, swimming in a sea of saturated fats, pop corn from my cold dead hands!
Agreed, I already have one, and she's a hand full as it is.
Neither was I till I read about all those succulent calories and saturated fats.
CSPI is made up of the same intellectual giants that made the startling discovery that Fettucine Alfredo is fattening. God, I wish they would get a life and stay the hell out of ours.
Nonsense, it is your body, your choice (provided you make the right choice)
Or to paraphrase a famous book: All choices are equal, some choices are more equal.
God, I wish they would get a life and stay the hell out of ours.
Amen!! And double Amen!!! Those puritans won't be happy until everyone grazes in the grass and suffers from depression.
I wish they'd all drown in bacon grease
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I feel like I live in a alternate universe. Maybe we should be calling each other by numbers instead of names,much like they did in The Prisoner. We can have someone dictate what we watch, what we eat, who we live with, who /what we worship. We don't need to make any choices for ourselves. nobody believes in fun anymore. snacks are sometimes the only thing that makes it worthwhile to go to the movies.
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"I'll have some tofu- raw of course, and some endamame… a small Evian as well."
"That'll be $8.50, sir"
"Enjoy your Matt Damon film"
Yikes.
Looks like 'V' on the DVR with some Totino's 'Pizza rolls' and a slab of garlic bread for us…
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thank you ABC. Thanks to your astute "journalism," I now have yet one more reason to avoid going to the movie theater and lining the pockets of all those wonderful, "holier-than-thou" actors, actresses, directors, producers, etc.
"Give them an inch and they will take a mile."
No kidding! I love my popcorn with lots of butter-flavored substance and these whackjobs aren't going to take that away from me. I see a movie in a theater maybe once a year and I'm sure as heck not going to munch on carrot sticks when I do it.
I'm sure the lads in Hollywood were overjoyed to see this ABC segment. I gather that the theatres get around 50 to 55% of the price of the movie ticket but the real money they make (that allows them to stay open) is from the concession stand. If there is a substantive drop in those sales then either the chain negotiates with the Movie producers for a higher cut of the ticket or they close up. Maybe they can get Will Farrell, George Clooney or Sean Penn and the like to take a bug pay cut to ensure the health of the movie going public.
Hitler began his version of "Obamacare" by killing off the mentally and physically handicapped…
it seems Obama will start with unhealthy movie goers. Nice, what a ~great man~.
Seig Heil Obama!
The problem I have is…there aren't that many good movies in theatres that make me want to buy that extra-greasy tub of popcorn.
These are the same people who banned coconut oil from the popcorn making process but now find coconut oil is a very healthy oil. I'm afraid I rarely go to the movies – Hollywood doesn't deserve my money.
Great, now we'll have a new flock of "scolds" wagging their fingers at us in movie theaters over the horrors of a bucket of popcorn. Wait until they decide that popcorn is bad for the environment, especially with all of those paper buckets. How many trees have to die to produce all of the popcorn buckets?? Oh the humanity!!
next they be telling us how many sheets we can use and exactly how to wipe!!!!!!!
Progressives = Totalitarianism
WAKE UP AMERICA!!!!!!
The price of the stuff should act as a natural barrier… make mine supersized witth xtra slathering butter, up the calorie count to 1400, and I'll chase it with a side of Prime Rib. Seriously, this is one fiftieth of the lunacy that is occuring in the local communites, i.e., smoking in the home or car, cell phone use, soda monitors, lawn police, toilet paper nazis, ad nauseum.
These causeheads won't be satified until we're locked in 4 x 4 cubicles with apples and berries as the meal of the day, a constant barrage of Moore movies & Obama speeches, and even then they'll have something to moan about. If optional, I'll take banishment to Devils Island.
Why do we never see an article referring to Barney Frank as a mortgage Nazi,or Barbara Boxer,Senator Feinstein,Schumer,Metzenberg,mayor Bloomberg, as a gun banning Nazi's.
Hey,wait a minute,I detect a pattern in the above names….Now I understand why they're never called Nazi's
We couldn't have that connection in the public's mind now could we?
Hey guys, y'all are looking at this all wrong…
this is a good thing!!! It's IN-FIGHTING!!
Health Nazis vs. Hollywood Nazis
(of course, my fave movie theatres are the one that had full blown burger/hotdog/icecream shops right there in the Multiplex
)
And, are movie theaters chaining us to our seats and force feeding popcorn and candy down our throats?? Duh. Well no. I don't think so. THAT is the only question in need of an answer in Courtney Hutchinson's frivolous piece.
From what I can find via Google on Courtney, she has made a career in writing mindless drivel on nutrition.
Give them an inch and they think they're a ruler.
They way production companys are moving to other States due to lower taxes there wont be a Hollywood in 20 years its going to be like a movie set. Hollow buildings.
It may also be the progressives/liberals/socialists Bridge Too Far. I don't see people giving up their movie popcorn and Milk Duds, their two-scoop sundae at Baskin Robbins, or their Thanksgiving turkey dinner without a fight.
Bring it on health nazis! You may have finally found something the average American is willing to fight for!
I can only afford to see a movie about once every 3 years anyways, but you can take my popcorn from me when you pry it from my cold, dead, greasy, kung-fu grip hand.
That goes for my Junior Mints, too, only we have to add minty to the description.
But then, when all this is in place, we'll only be allowed to see leftist propaganda movies anyways…likely ones about how bad butter is for you, so people will be trained to not eat it…or priced out of eating it if you aren't already (like me).
Amen!
m m m m m. . . .bacon grease. . . . .drool. . .
Have you learned nothing?? If what you described were to happen, the h-wood elite wouldn't think to take pay cuts. No, no, no! Were living in the era of gov't bailouts. Put two and two together. sheesh!
Nothing escapes the notice of the nanny staters. Remember: they are sticking their noses in your life for YOUR OWN GOOD…because you don't know how to best live your own life.
That has already been suggested by Sheryl Crowe…she suggested that we only use 'one sheet' to save the planet! I was ROFLMAO!!!!
This is a joke right???? I am so sick and tired of people thinking that they have the 'right' to tell ANYONE how to live their life!
Oops! "criticize."
Do you remember saving the bacon grease drippings on the stove and frying EVERYTHING in it? Those were the good old days. Yes, indeedy, yum!
this is freaking hilarious…i go the movies maybe once a week, stop at the market and pick up a candy bar and a bottle of water or whatever and sometimes i will even live on the edge and buy a small popcorn and unless they do a candy check at the door and take my candy from me i will continue to live on the edge and screw food nazis..
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Here is my "reductio ad Hitlerum" observation: In Germany during the 1930's, the Nazis declared that universal health care was the "right" of all Germans. Shortly thereafter, a popular Hitler Youth slogan was born: "Diet is not a private matter!" Young Hitler Youths actually ran around shouting that at portly people they spied eating fattening food. The theory was, if ALL Germans must pay for your health care, what you eat is EVERYONE'S business.
Are the Obama worshippers fascists? I say, if the shoe fits . . .
Interesting link: http://www.faithfreedom.org/obama.html
I like popcorn, but I prefer it at home from my hot-air popper, lightly salted with some butter. Cost – less than $5.
And I can pause the movie and get more whenever I want.
After that came out, I vowed that if I ever had the misfortune to meet Sheryl Crowe, I would definitely not shake hands with her.
I hate to say it, but this is what happens when the public pays for health care. When we pay for people's emergency room visits the the public assumes a right to tell people what to do to prevent emergency room visits (heart attacks, etc.) That is why the root of ending the influence of these "healthnazi's" is to force people to take responsibility for themselves and the consequences of their actions. We got to stop paying for each other through taxes.
Technically I would say I am pro-choice but not a pro-abortionist. If a woman wished to sell her body then that is between her and the person doing the paying. If she wishes to cover it with tattoos and piercings that's her business as well. Having said that I do not, however, believe a fetus to be just another part of her body. Despite being dependent on the mother it is still a separate life.
What I buy at the movie theatre is my own fracking business! People need to stop
One thing the theater industry could do is start offering the "zero" drinks. They have been out long enough you would think every restaurant and theater would now be offering them. The theaters could also be selling sugar free candy if they wanted to. That being said, the theaters are not forcing anyone to buy their food. They are simply making it where there's is the only food to be had while watching the movie.
So when will ABC News be doing their expose on "unhealthy" Starbucks beverages?
Venti Whole Milk Eggnog Latte: 630 calories 18g saturated fat
Venti Whole Milk Peppermint White Chocolate Mocha: 680 calories 17g saturated fat
Venti Whole Milk Java Chip Frappuccino: 600 calories 14g saturated fat
I haven't been to a movie theatre in more than a decade and before that, almost two decades, since there's NOTHING to see, people have long lost their ability to behave in a theatre, and they changed how they cooked popcorn.
I still love good movies, so I stay home, watch great old movies, and make my own popcorn.
Dennis Miller made a great point the other night (I paraphrase): You could line up 100 Liberals and ask them what they want to get rid of and their answers would virtually eliminate every food imaginable — there would hardly be anything appetizing left to eat.
And he is 100% correct.
>>…who /what we worship…<<
That is coming faster than you know it.
So, what do these health nazis think of the government wanting to slowly kill women by denying them mammograms until it is too late?
I hear all this talk about living healthy and taxing soda and snacks and removing what people enjoy from menus. Too much weight=too much healthcare with our taxes paying for the overwieght's (supposedly anyway) healthcare. Not one word mentioned on how much homosexual lifestyle=sex is costing Americans. HIV is still out there costing people money too but no one mentions it. Yet they want to take away someone's coke and popcorn???????? Wake up America!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I BEG YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Whaddya mean "remember"?
My husband still does that once we have enough grease saved.
And his cholesterol is just borderline high.
When Snowcaps are outlawed, only outlaws will have Snowcaps.
One more reason not to go to the movies
And the Germans are the ones whose diet consists of pork in a million forms, and.. potatoes.
Chicken is considered a vegetable in Munich, I think.
The movie theatres make practically all of their profits on concessions.
May Hollywood Nazis and Health Nazis wipe each other out.
I don't think anyone is trying to ban these items as much as point out how bad they be for you. Obviously, with candy, you know what you're getting, but the popcorn issue COULD be confusing for some people. You can airpop/use light oil/use the microwave to make popcorn at home and have it be a very healthy snack (even using salt, butter). The popcorn findings are way out of whack. I think they're just giving you a heads up, not trying to be your nanny. The popcorn isn't going anywhere people, let's all calm down. You'll be allowed to enjoy the same amount of fatty food tomorrow that you enjoy today.
And whoever thinks that fat people only equals more taxes for healthcare, do you even have health insurance? Do you know why rates go up? The health insurance companies base their prices on the same statistics that you're afraid the government will base theirs on. The only difference is that the government will have far better leverage than the HMO/Health Insurance companies to negotiate better prices for drugs, services, etc. Will it be perfect? No, of course not, especially not right away. Right now, private insurance companies turn people away or remove them from coverage based on prior health issues.
I saw this post when I had too much time on my hands and not enough to do, and so: http://friarsfires.blogspot.com/2009/11/fear-deat...
That's what liberals always say.
"People are too stupid to make decisions concerning their own lives. Let's let the government do it!"
Alfredo Sauce makes everything good and fattening, so what. The problem is not that we eat too much but that we do too little. By the way, everything I cook is better with Bacon, mmmmm Bacon what can't it do.
It's a pork fat thing.
If you buy the big tub in aht ehteater near me, you get a refill free. Awesome.
Besides, what do you think a waste band is for?
Ladies and Gentlemen:
Get your big-screen TV and high-performance sound system, make any wonderful thing you want in your own kitchen, and put in a DVD of something you want to see…sorry, moviehouse, but if you lose your business, sue CSPI…
In the coming revolution of 2010…may the Congress earmark defunding CSPI and slip it into the repeal of the health care bill…
That sounds like something Hitler would say.
By "We", she meant "YOU". If Sheryl Crowe walks around with a crusty butt, I'm Ed Asner.
Oh that's just great! Another reason not to go to the Movies!
Wha? Soda, candy, and popcorn covered in something-that-isn't-really-butter® butter flavored topping isn't good for me?! The outrage! The indignation!
Look, most people don't go to the movies everyday (or week, or month; heck, I usually only go to one movie a year), so this isn't really that big of a problem. It's basically like having an extra Thanksgiving or two a year (at least for me).
I've got to wonder, though: is this what life under Obamacare will be like? Eggheads deciding what snacks we can have while we watch movies? The last movie I saw in theaters was Zombieland. If the CSPI has there way, I would think the zombies would be enjoying their snacks more than me. I'm just not going to stand for that!
RobertB wins the thread!
Never forget that it was anti-smoking legislation that got this all started and set precedent (both social and legal) for controlling people's consumption of something because it would "cost heath care money." All it took was the "second hand smoke" nonsense to get that wedge in and now, bolstered by the precedents created by the anti-smoking laws, Bloomberg can ban trans-fats.
But ObamaCare won't ban things, except in a few instances where they can get political benefits (eg, "saving the children"). They'll tax it, just like they did with cigarettes. The beast must be fed and you will pay.
I think this is great! Everybody stood aside as the health Nazisengaged in their junk-science hate campaign against smokers. It's kinda nice to see others experience some of the government financed health Nazi hate campaign.
This is a test for the Intense debate people – this bloig seems to though my logged in comment into the "bit bucket".
You would think that since the 'intellectual giants' are constantly harping about how we are all overpopulating the planet and blah, blah, blah, that they would be encouraging us to drown ourselves in buttered popcorn and high sugared foods and drinks.
Are we supposed to die off or not?
So…. REPORTING on something YOU support, something that YOU would like to force on the rest of us is somehow "proof" of a law that you lack the inteligence to comprehend?
I would continue but YOU are obviously to dense to understand the folly of your own idiocy.
Movie snacks have always been too expensive anyway. It won't change my habit of NOT buying anything at the theater, if I even go to the movies anymore. Just another reason to stay home and keep my hard earned money to myself.
I wonder what chemical companies make the artificial butter substance that goes on movie theater popcorn. And I also wonder what conservatives sit on the boards of said chemical companies.
Oh wait, I forgot – what about the US Corn Growers Association – I wonder what political characters are associated with that organization. Can you say federal subsidies?
I made it my mission in life to teach my kids the proper way to order popcorn. Since the concessions got so cheap with the butter, I make them fill the box fresh, with butter in 3 layers, so there's always enough butter in the popcorn. And it really does come out better that way. And really, isn't that the point? It's part of the entertainment???? Of course we rarely go, not much entertaining going on out there anymore. Is there some secret study saying entertainment is bad for us too?
In many parts of the world the caloric density would be considered awesome.
Heh, edamame.
I almost married a macro chick in my wasted youth. The relationship foundered when I found myself sneaking off to the reasonably priced grocery store for Vienna sausage fixes and finally realized that there was no way on Michio Kushi's ruddy green earth that I could spend the rest of my days living with miso, wakame, daikon, and insane starving liberals.
I've got old movies and a heaping pile of lechón with crispy melt in your mouth skin on the menu for tonight.
Actually, when all is said and done, I suspect that the causeheads will be the ones banished to Devil's Island.
If I'm not mistaken it was the National Socialists who invented advocacy environmentalism as well.
They just loved them some old growth forests and hated the cruelty of the Jews toward animals.
Obama himself is the wedge now.
Can you say Senator Tom Harkin?
very nice…
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