PEPSICOBAMA would need a bailout.
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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You can eat in a perfectly healthy way on a modest income.
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Exactly. Packaged, processed foods are not cheaper.
You put the babies in a stroller and take them for a walk/run, or go biking/hiking/swimming/running with the older children.
PEPSICOBAMA would need a bailout.
The Trader Joe’s around here are pretty lib infested. And just have a weird vibe I can’t put my finger on when there. Convenience food for granolas was my take on it.
Do not try to say it isn't because you are lazy, they know better. They have outed you. Take what's coming to you.
Just applying in real life what I have learned in the many online coupon forums.
Which forums do you suggest? It was the free Round Steak and milk that caught my attention.
Free steak and milk are only byproducts of the other stuff I get. You can start out with HotCouponWorld.Com
Thanks for the newly unemployed.
Core and wedge a cabbage or two, stick it in a slow cooker with a couple tablespoons of balsamic vinegar and a sprinkle of garlic powder. Cook it on low 5-6 hours, til it’s carmelized and a little crisp at the edge. Even people who hate cabbage will eat this up.
I combine Trader Joe’s and Costco. Between the two I can get just about everything in the way of food. Then there’s Walmart for cleaning supplies, etc.
There seems to be no overlap in the type of people who shop at any of them. Trader Joe’s is full of skinny libs. The Costco I go to seems to have a lot of Republicans who drive Mercedes. (And they too return their shopping carts.) Walmart - well - nobody who shops at Walmart seems to go hungry and they don’t return their carts.
If it makes you feel better, I return my cart almost every time no matter where I shop. Unless I’m feeling rebellious.
“and kinda like the internet. lol”
Hey watch it buddy, you’re getting just a little bit too close to home there.
LOL, too true, WAY too true.
Yeah, those huge welfare/disability queens and kings at WalMart don't have any time for working out ... they are always at the store loading up on more food.
People are fat because they consume more calories than they burn. Push away from the table and the TV and get outside. Fat people are, by example, training their little fatso kids to be fat forever by sitting in the house eating chips and soda.
I would suggest you cut out the bread, potatoes, rice, and sweets as much as possible. Eat your fruits whole (do not drink juice) and eat green leafys with every lunch and dinner. You will have to go to the grocery store at least once a week to keep fresh food in the house, but it will be worth it.
Most of us get way too much in the way of simple starches and not nearly enough in the way of fiber. High glycemic foods (potatoes, bread, sugar, etc) cause a cascade of bad reactions in the body unless you are working hard enough to burn the calories right away. The body is also built to have a regular diet of fiber to sweep out all the toxins. Move away from the starchy foods and get lots of fiber in your diet to do wonders for health and weight.
Cabbage is great on the grill, as well...
I don’t worry if the carts are returned. If we all returned carts it would take jobs away from cart returners.
But, I do put mine in the corrals. :)
Do you have a good cole slaw recipe? I love cole slaw.
My local Safeway used to carry a cole slaw "mix" called Super Slaw (carried in the produce section). It was a seasoning mix to which you added mayonnaise, vinegar, and sugar, along with a shredded head of cabbage. Great stuff. Can't find it anymore.
IMHO, it has much more to do with glands and metabolism.
I went through a 15 yr period of running and working out between 14-30 miles daily, limiting my caloric intake and meals sometimes to one every two days, less than 1500cal per day easily, and never exceeding 2200 cal/day, and after losing 70 lbs, would shoot up 20 lbs in 3 days if I consumed more than 2 meals a day.
My work routine changed preventing me from 2-3 workout sessions daily to a work day from about 0430-2000/2200 daily for the last 8 yrs. I shot up a 100lbs in the first 2 yrs, but after that, no matter how many meals a day I ate, or types of food, my weight wouldn’t fluctuate mor than about 3.5 lbs.
I’ve always had a high glycemic index, so it would usually take 12 hrs after a meal to drop back down to normal and 1 to 2 workout sessions to get the blood sugar down to a point where the body would naturally begin to burn fat or return the blood sugars to normal.
Consider a potatoe increases the blood sugar level more rapidly than a candy bar, yet look at all the vegans who will have no problems eating potatoes and whine at processed fast foods.
IMHO, the spot diets and crunch avoidance of any one type of food or complete dousing with another type of food is just as damaging to one’s health as being overweight.
It’s tough to get the glandular balance just right to meet a weight equilibrium. Voiding one type a food is likely to develop an imbalance in some nutritional value, or in enzymes, or types of other biochemical product.
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