New York City has hundreds of bustling fast-food outlets, but if one leading politician has his way, there may soon be fewer of them on the block. Worried by soaring levels of obesity and the health problems that go with it, the city council's health committee chairman says the time has come to challenge the rampant growth of fast-food chains.
Will it work? If it were that simple, people would not be fat in the first place.
"I think it's an absurd solution - not just from the point of individual choice, it just wouldn't work. If you love fast-food and you're fat, you'd just go to another neighbourhood - and you probably wouldn't jog there, you'd probably take a cab," American Council on Science and Health President Dr. Elizabeth Whelan told the BBC.