Nutritional disparities between America’s rich and poor are growing, despite
efforts to provide higher-quality food to people who most need it.
Posted on 09/02/2014 2:08:58 PM PDT by lbryce
Nutritional disparities between America’s rich and poor are growing, despite efforts to provide higher-quality food to people who most need it. So says a large study just released from the Harvard School of Public Health that examined eating habits of 29,124 Americans over the past decade. Diet quality has improved among people of high socioeconomic status but deteriorated among those at the other end of the spectrum. The gap between the two groups doubled between 2000 and 2010. That will be costly for everyone.
The primary conclusion of the study is interesting, though, in that its focus is diet quality among the population as a whole. Without accounting for socioeconomic status, there has been, the study reads, “steady improvement.” People aren’t eating more vegetables, or less red or processed meat, and their salt intake increased—which the researchers call “disconcerting”—but Americans are eating more good things like whole fruit, whole grains, nuts, legumes, and polyunsaturated fats.
Frank Hu, a professor of nutrition and epidemiology at Harvard and one of the study’s authors, led with the good news when we spoke by phone.
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“How about Michelle forfeiting some of her burgers and fries to improve the situation.”
That would worsen, not improve, the gap.
Why the next thing you know they’ll be talking about the homeless.
Oh wait, this isn’t a Republican administration.
What’s up with the food disparity thing? You don’t embarrass your Democrat lackey in charge!
Have you seen the price of Junk Food and processed food?
But the reason for the gap between rich and poor is education: traditional combined with continual education. Poor people are less education to begin with so programs to educated people on nutrition will probably not work since their ability to apprehend and comprehend are diminished by a lack of base line knowledge.
I’m a grandpa, but I’m one that still prepares cheap meals with fresh ingredients these days.
Gkids and I just spent $8 at the loal asian market. That will provide 3 nights of good meals.
/johnny
“Shameful, that there is a mineshaft gap in the world’s richest nation!”
There is also an automobile gap. A neighbor has a Maserati and I’m stuck with a Corolla.
Life is soooo unfair.
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I used to shop were there were a lot of EBT users. Always took note of what they were buying. Expensive junk. Snacks, soda, prepared foods.
Nutritional disparities between America’s rich and poor are growing, despite
efforts to provide higher-quality food to people who most need it.
A corollary to “healthy” food “crisis” is the “hunger in America” crisis. Supposedly, there’s many millions of starving Americans from the “poor and oppressed” population. The same population of Americans who are fatter than the other Americans. It’s all b.s.
recipes?
[ Trying to eat healthy is really expensive. ]
So if we put MORE money on the EBT cards these people will eat better?
last time I checked fruits and vegetables are much cheaper than Hot Fries and Urnge drank.
Yeah, we live in a country where the poor people are fat and the rich are skinny.
Poor people buy whatever they want to eat .
Look at food prices. Thanks to the ethanol boondoggle 40% of the US corn crop is being turned into heavily subsidized biofuels making the cost of meat, eggs and dairy products go up. Obama’s environmental policies protecting various threatened species is aggravating the California water shortage pushing up the price of fruit and vegetables.
Take away the EBT cards and let them eat leftover school cafeteria food.
Fresh Produce at the grocery stores around here is not only expensive it is crappy.
Anything you buy doesn't last in the frig more than a day or two and has hardly any taste.
It's why even though I live in an apartment with no access to a patch of soil or a balcony I constructed what I call my emergency zombiepocalypse mobile garden out of heavy duty casters, recycled pallets and plastic 5 gallon buckets.
Its amazing what you can grow in 5 gallon buckets. This year is cucumbers, tomatoes, lettuce, green peppers, habanero peppers, pole beans (green beans) onions and potatoes. 22 buckets this year. Next year I am going to double that. I am done with paying extremely high prices for crappy produce.
No, healthy food is expensive, I’m sorry, it just is. I buy healthy and I have the grocery bills to prove it. When my husband and I were struggling this past year, we lived on pasta (brown pasta) because it was cheap. We bought the cheapest vegetables possible (onions and green peppers) to throw into it while I greedily looked at all the wonderful stuff I couldn’t buy (broccoli, excellent lettuces, arugula, etc.) I live in the northeast which might play into it, I don’t know.
Lately our economic situation has eased and I’m back to buying my beloved organic carrots, broccoli and delicious fruits.
Poor people are forced into buying canned fruit and vegetables if they care about fruit and vegetables - and thank God that stuff is available.
This week will be asian style spicy vegetable beef soup with rice noodles.
Beef sauted in sesame oil, whatever veggies were cheap and looked good, asian beef stock, tofu, spicy bean paste, and rice noodles that will be cooked to go with each order.
Yes, I treat feeding the kids like I still worked in a commercial kitchen.
/johnny
“Good food” means protein, not roughage.
Sounds good, will try tomorrow. Spaghetti tonight.
Try getting a job when you’re a young person or over 55. You do know there’s a problem with the economy, don’t you? Or are all those unemployed people (like the hardworking folks in Atlantic City) lazy bastards happy to now overwhelm the unemployment rolls?
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