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Grocery Stores Attract Skinniest Shoppers
MSNBC ^ | May 24, 2010 | JoNel Aleccia

Posted on 05/24/2010 12:53:43 PM PDT by Steelfish

Pricey Grocery Stores Attract Skinniest Shoppers Obese customers far more common at low-cost markets; poverty a factor

By JoNel Aleccia May 24, 2010

The percentage of food shoppers who are obese is almost 10 times higher at low-cost grocery stores compared with upscale markets, a small new study shows. Researchers say the striking findings underscore poverty as a key factor in America’s growing girth.

In the Seattle area, a region with an average obesity rate of about 20 percent, only about 4 percent of shoppers who filled their carts at Whole Foods Market stores were obese, compared with nearly 40 percent of shoppers at lower-priced Albertsons stores.

That’s likely because people willing to pay $6 for a pound of radicchio are more able to afford healthy diets than people stocking up on $1.88 packs of pizza rolls to feed their kids, the study’s lead author suggested.

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TOPICS: Food; Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: skinniestshoppers
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1 posted on 05/24/2010 12:53:43 PM PDT by Steelfish
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To: Steelfish

Skinny folks are stupid.


2 posted on 05/24/2010 12:54:50 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Steelfish

Speaking truth to girth.


3 posted on 05/24/2010 12:55:16 PM PDT by Wally_Kalbacken
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To: Steelfish

Misprint:

Headline should read:
Pricey Grocery Stores Attract Skinniest Shoppers


4 posted on 05/24/2010 12:56:03 PM PDT by Steelfish (ui)
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To: Steelfish
$1.88 packs of pizza rolls

Pizza rolls rock. Put hot sauce on 'em.. mmmm mmmm mmmm.

5 posted on 05/24/2010 12:56:04 PM PDT by humblegunner (Pablo is very wily)
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To: Steelfish

That’s because shopping high price means you can get less, so you eat less....


6 posted on 05/24/2010 12:56:59 PM PDT by HungarianGypsy
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To: Steelfish
I think obesity is an emotional disease or a reaction to stress, anxiety, boredom, fear.

I'm sure that the more financially secure eat less or eat better than the anxious poor or financially insecure.

Food is a drug or antidepressant or coping mechanism just like booze or drugs. Kinda like TV.

7 posted on 05/24/2010 12:58:51 PM PDT by garyhope (It's World War IV, right here, right now, courtesy of Islam.)
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To: Steelfish

“Make food cost more and people will become thin”

Research brought to you by “VAT for FAT”


8 posted on 05/24/2010 1:02:10 PM PDT by libertarian27 (Ingsoc: Department of Life, Department of Liberty, Department of Happiness)
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To: Steelfish

I knew there had to be some genetic reason why I shop at Costco instead of Whole Foods . . . .


9 posted on 05/24/2010 1:03:20 PM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard
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“Skinny” shoppers are going to these places because they obsess over their weight, and are already skinny. These stores sell products that cater to the health-obsessed, such as carrying only “organic” vegetables, exotic breads, and niche health foods.


10 posted on 05/24/2010 1:03:46 PM PDT by Little Pig (Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici.)
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To: Steelfish

This has to be the first time in history “poor” people are fat.


11 posted on 05/24/2010 1:03:52 PM PDT by C19fan
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To: Steelfish

Only in America could MSNBC whine that poverty causes obesity.


12 posted on 05/24/2010 1:03:53 PM PDT by norwaypinesavage (Galileo: In science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of one individual)
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To: garyhope

The more financially secure are able to work out.


13 posted on 05/24/2010 1:05:21 PM PDT by Chickensoup ("A corrupt society has many laws" - Tacitus)
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To: Steelfish

Another POS “news article” from PMS-NBC. Consider the source and value it accordingly.


14 posted on 05/24/2010 1:05:29 PM PDT by ssaftler (Arizonans: Doing the job that Americans won't do.)
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To: Steelfish
'cause all the fat people go to McDonalds.

Just ask any "public health" or "nutrition science" major. They'll tell you how corporate America targets minorities with junk food for profit.

15 posted on 05/24/2010 1:05:55 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (the five of the five is the two of the one.)
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This has to be the first time in history “poor” people are fat.

Brilliant observation ... So poor people have plenty of food then, we can all see that, so why redistribution of wealth, is it for XBox's or what?
16 posted on 05/24/2010 1:06:06 PM PDT by Scythian
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To: garyhope

HELLO! SPOT ON!


17 posted on 05/24/2010 1:06:23 PM PDT by annelizly
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To: Steelfish

Uh, no. They’re confusing correlation and causality.

Rich people tend to be skinny not because they have the genes for slenderness but because they apply the same self-discipline to their waistlines that they do to their careers. Skinny people are presented with just as much, if not more, tempting food as poor, obese people, but they say no, or just have a little taste. Then they go hiking, biking, running, riding, playing tennis, swimming, or working out.

You can eat in a perfectly healthy way on a modest income. All that crap food poor people eat—the packaged stuff—is actually far more expensive than fruits, vegetables, meat, and decent poultry. And whether you’re poor or not, no one is holding a gun to your head and forcing you to put another pile of potatoes on your plate.


18 posted on 05/24/2010 1:06:38 PM PDT by ottbmare (I could agree wth you, but then we'd both be wrong.)
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To: Steelfish

You gotta pack a few extra pounds to survive when crossing the great food desert.


19 posted on 05/24/2010 1:08:31 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim (Live jubtabulously!)
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To: Scythian

Why do you think Nike spends big money on thugs? From the welfare check to Nike’s pockets.


20 posted on 05/24/2010 1:08:35 PM PDT by C19fan
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