Posted on 06/16/2017 4:17:36 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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As nutrition experts point out, it is not the healthiest type of meal since it is typically high in fat and salt. More widely, its seen as a key factor in the growing obesity epidemic in the U.S. and throughout the world.
Because its considered relatively inexpensive, theres an assumption that poor people eat more fast food than other socioeconomic groups which has convinced some local governments to try to limit their access. Food journalist Mark Bittman sums up the sentiment succinctly:
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Our recently published research examined this assumption by looking at who eats fast food using a large sample of random Americans. What we found surprised us: Poor people were actually less likely to eat fast food and do so less frequently than those in the middle class, and only a little more likely than the rich.
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I don’t even care.
I see poor people and they are all fat and they want more of my money because their children are hungry. “No”. Just “No”.
think EBT
junk food isn’t only fast food. grocery stores are full of junk food.
Ya and we know there are food deserts, and there are too many liquor stores and convenience stores in the ghetto which sell chips and snack tho foods rather than nutritious arugula. Michelle Obama and others have lectured us about this already.
Analyze a hamburger.
Bread.. is bread junk?
Beef... is beef junk?
Lettuce and stuff.. is that junk?
Where does the junk enter the equation?
Is it just about who sells it?
Many “poor” people are fat slobs. They eat more of everything they can get their hands (and mouths) on.
George Orwell wrote about how poor people would rather spend a nickel on a candy bar over a far healthier apple, be cause they felt they needed a little luxury in their lives.
Grade-D meat on a nutrition-free bun? Do they even eat the iceberg lettuce on an under-ripe tomato?
Forget the fast food, the coffee alone is billions. I make a cup for cents and see my apt neighbors go across the street and pay $2.
Are these people educated in public schools? Why are they not taught this? Do they not have mothers and fathers who feed them and tell them what to eat? We are constantly fed this crap—never the fault of the person—constantly taunting society and requiring more government intervention. Eat what you want and suffer the consequences. You reap what you sow.
OTOH, they may demand junk food...and refuse to eat nutritious stuff. Probably both things are true.
Fast food is not actually that cheap.
It's not the job of politicians to improve anyone's health by telling them how to eat. It is none of their business. I repeat, it is none of them damn business.
The exception being free food, i.e. SNAP, provided to people by confiscating my earnings. Then we limit them to beans, rice, meat, bread, potatoes and vegetables. Nothing else.
When I was a kid in the early 60s my dad and I were driving through a poor neighborhood, and I was surprised by how many fat people I saw. I said I thought poor people can’t afford enough to eat, why are there so many fat people? He told me “they eat too many starches (carbs) because they are cheap, and starches make you fat”. My dad was a smart man.
In many cases, they are taught this and really don't care. I taught classes in "Healthy Living for Chronic Conditions," a program created at Stanford U, and was really surprised at the resistance to nutritional information. Young women with little kids listened attentively and took notes, but fat guys who needed help to walk across the room could not be convinced to even try something new.
One of those fat guys, in his twenties, had an absolutely astonishing rich voice and I suggested he go to local community college (free) and take courses in radio presenting/announcing. You should have seen the look on his face. Terror. Oh no, he said. He was happy collecting government benefits and playing video games.
Hard to know how to untangle that mess. I got fed up and quit teaching, though I made some good friends there--other teachers I'm still in touch with. They've all quit the program.
Maybe it is. The cost of healthcare is growing astronomically, and really, there is a place for prevention. You have to get them early though, before the force of habit is impossible to budge.
Reminds me of some liberal do-gooder about thirty five years ago who went to South America to help the poor people.
He helped a poor man harvest and sell his crops, then the poor man went and bought himself a Coca Cola!
The lib was horrified as he felt the poor man was enriching US corporations. He himself showed his “moral superiority” by buying some locally produced milk to drink.
No, it’s not. Period. If you don’t like sharing someone else’s insurance costs then don’t buy insurance. But don’t hire politicians to unconstitutionally abridge my rights because you want to tell me what to do.
That is s slippery slope to total statism.
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