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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I see plenty of gaunt neo-hippies who think they are “healthy” but they look malnurished to me.
The media talks up “obesity” (with a BMI index that men and women should weigh the same and that doesn’t consider muscle vs fat) and pushes men in “skinny jeans” (girls slacks) and then expresses “concern” about anorexia.
It’s a vicious circle that helps feed the daytime talk show circuit on tv.
True. Life ain’t fair.
You don’t look at 19th century photography much.
>>This has to be the first time in history “poor” people are fat.<<
Money quote!
In the US, “poor” means you have an older model playstation.
Rush talked last week about a "homeless" seminar that was held in the Soviet Union in the 1980s and how some Americans brought some US homeless there to tell their tales.
One of the audience members asked how long the man had been homeless "5 years".
He was then asked what he does. He said he doesn't work and hadn't for 5 years.
The audience started to filter out...
More telling is how many of our "poor" people have cellphones and cable tv and smoke.
Make food cost more, and they will take more of our money out in taxes to increase the food stamps allotments.
Make food cost more, and they will take more of our money out in taxes to increase the food stamps allotments.
Is it sorta like "Starbucks", where the longer your order, the bigger the A-Hole you are? And, if you order a double-cupped, triple-whip 138 degree grande machiatto with 1/2 cream and 1/2 skim and pinch of cinnamon on top.... then you're a REALLY big a-hole?
Call me a simple man, but I'll have a cuppa joe. Black. I'll drink it on the way to to the Food Lion where I need loaf of bread and a quart of milk.
>>Just ask any “public health” or “nutrition science” major. They’ll tell you how corporate America targets minorities with junk food for profit.<<
Imagine, if the nanny state stopped giving out welfare, what it would do to their profits.
My wife and I enjoy checking out the food items people are buying at Costco and then compare to their girth. It is very common to see a fat couple or family buying food and as they throw stuff on the counter you wonder why they are not fatter than they are.
It’s simple math. The average guy can handle 1600-2200 calories a day and keep his weight steady. Just read the calories on what they are eating. Unless they are spending a lot of time running, biking, etc., they’re gonna get fat.
Hahaha, bingo. We’re talking Seattle here. Coffee snobbery, grocery snobbery.
This thread is useless without pics! ;)
Don't ask me where I got "Free Range Arugula" from. Occasionally the muse strikes me.
I remember being told that the gap between rich and poor in terms of real wealth and the law and culture had never been greater than today's America by a brainless leftist Anthropology teacher.
I laughed openly in her face, told her that poverty in America wasn't even the same thing as poverty elsewhere. I had and have been to third world countries with people literally starving to death in the streets. I have read history, where the nobility was exempt from taxation, different laws applied when they were sought to be applied at all, etc.
I grew up on welfare eating government cheese, and yet this privileged child of northeaster liberals told me that “if that is your impression of what it means to be poor in America you were not poor enough.”
Mostly young professional singles and rich trophy wives.....
Fresh fruit and veggies are expensive. Also, you can’t get a week or two weeks worth when you shop (they’ll go bad before you can eat them... in a normal fashion...), so you have to keep going back for more, which means more impulse buying (of snacks, which are cheaper), and so on and so on . . .
Yeah, or pack a snack.....lol
“Food is a drug or antidepressant or coping mechanism just like booze or drugs. Kinda like TV.”
and kinda like the internet. lol
At least in some areas, upscale grocery stores post prominent signs reading, “This store does not accept Food Stamps.”
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