Grandma's House

Here's yet another reason to be thankful you don't live in England. John Reid, Britain's Health Secretary, has come up with "guidelines" which cover everything from smoking to drinking to your sex life. His plan would ban smoking in all but pubs that don't serve food. There would be "lifestyle coaches" to assist you in learning what you should eat, how you should exercise, etc. Advertising of food and drink would be coded as to healthy and unhealthy choices. There would be national screening for STD's, and an e-mail sex advise service, available to all ages without parental consent. School nurses would "encourage" healthy nutrition choices in the schools, and infant formula would be harder to get so as to increase breast feeding. All choices which should be made by the individual, not by a nanny state. I wonder how long before someone suggests the same thing here?