In my midwest city, you can’t have an open container in public (however, they allow passengers of cars to have open containers). The way they work around this is you put the container in a brown paper bag and drink out of it that way. You can also put it in a different container. Just don’t cause trouble and you’ll be safe almost all of the time.
I wonder if it’s something to do with what those 8 hours are filled with, maybe a person is more likely to eat worse meals if they skip a meal unintentionally?
For example, they could be eating McDonald’s every night because they didn’t have the time to eat anything else.
I would assume if you plan your diet properly, it wouldn’t be harmful. Only science can tell us though, not our ponderings.
Maybe they should invest in proper shelters then if they don’t want them in the parks…