You can't handle the truth!
Posted on 05/06/2008 12:11:49 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Food costs likely to boost obesity in poor Healthier choices will be even more out of reach, experts say.
By Alfred Lubrano
Inquirer Staff Writer Some of the fattest people in America are among the poorest.
And with food prices rising, the problem is likely to get worse.
Tianna Gaines, who describes herself as impoverished and obese, knows this. At 5-foot-3 and 242 pounds, she lives on public assistance in Frankford and eats junk food because it's cheap and more readily available in her neighborhood than carrots and apples.
Besides, said Gaines, 28, and a mother of three, "I don't have the money for Bally's fitness clubs. And I can't run here. They shoot you."
More poor people may suffer Gaines' fate, with the U.S. Department of Agriculture predicting food prices will be up 4.5 percent throughout the year, due to high fuel costs, weather problems, and the growing diversion of corn crops to make ethanol. Globally, prices will rise nearly 50 percent, according to the president's Council of Economic Advisers.
"The food crisis will make obesity and attendant diabetes even more rampant," said University of Washington epidemiologist Adam Drewnowski. "Fruits, vegetables and fish are becoming luxury goods completely out of reach of many people. Consumption of cheap food will only grow.
"Obesity is the toxic consequence of a failing economy."
(Excerpt) Read more at philly.com ...
Heck. you would have a tale to tell... a folktale. lol
reality and fiction are just blurred all over this story.
Wonder if Jimmah is handing out Pringles in Africa?
Time for the election to ressurrect something.
We should be hearing “two chickens in every pot” soon.
Or cheesewiz for everyone!
That’s what I was thinking. That’s what I stock up on.
If they did start buying these healthy things would there be more “food Shortage” like at Costco?
You got that right- one of the reasons poor people stay that way is that they lack the skills for the former and the ambition for the latter. I've done both; the worst neighbourhoods I've lived in had public transit and were also within cycling distance of a decent supermarket.
Access to supermarkets isn't the only issue. I've noticed that one of the things that keeps a lot of people jobless is the fact that they only look for work within walking distance of their homes. It seems they'd rather be poor than spend a couple of hours a day riding the bus.
You have to understand, that almost the definition of sophomoric is "if it's counterintuitive it must be true."
And the rest of her time on her back... watching TV etc.
At least this is one thing the US has to brag about: we have the fattest poor people in the world!!
But like that’s anything new? No, something else has been going on the last 10 years, I don’t know what it is.
Probably not, but there’s nothing stopping her hefty ass from getting on the floor of her apartment and doing a few sit ups.
More Socialist/Marxist rhetoric.
If the poor are overweight, they must not be very “poor”. And they mostly have Big Screen HD TV’s, a comfortable roof over their head. a vehicle and all paid for by the American taxpayer. They should go to a Third World country where the real poor live.
But then again, the Left never ceases to amaze me with their ridiculous and complete lack of logical thought.
“No, something else has been going on the last 10 years, I don’t know what it is.”
Well, really it’s been going on longer than that. As we moved out of post WW2 society and inventions came along that made our lives easier, manual labor became less and less. If we still had to wash our clothes by hand, or chop wood for fires to keep us warm, etc...we’d be in a lot better shape.
You can't handle the truth!
Fruzen dinners can be very inexpensive, and they provide portion control. In fact, one of the main cost points is what they DON’T put in.
I can never get enough of it. (chicken)
It depends on what it is, obviously. Lean Cuisine, Healthy Choice, etc....but still they have an awful lot of sodium...not good for weight loss.
I mean, have you seen the price of Arugula down at Whole Foods?!?
Going lowfat doesn’t make a bit of difference. You can get fat as a pig without any fat at all at all.
One of my favorite jokes....
When someone asks you a dumb question wouldn't you like to respond like this?.....
Yesterday I was buying a large bag of Purina dog chow for Athena the wonder dog at Wal-Mart and was about to check out. A woman behind me asked if I had a dog. What did she think I had, an elephant? So since I'm retired, with little to do, on impulse, I told her that no, I didn't have a dog, and that I was starting the Purina Diet again.
Although I probably shouldn't, because I'd ended up in the hospital last time, but that I'd lost 50 pounds before I awakened in an intensive care ward with tubes coming out of most of my orifices and IVs in both arms.
I told her that it was essentially a perfect diet and that the way that it works is to load your pants pockets with Purina nuggets and simply eat one or two every time you feel hungry and that the food is nutritionally complete so I was going to try it again. (I have to mention here that practically everyone in the line was by now enthralled with my story.)
Horrified , she asked if I ended up in intensive care because the dog food poisoned me. I told her no; I stepped off a curb to sniff an Irish Setter's ass and a car hit us both.
I thought the guy behind her was going to have a heart attack, he was laughing so hard!
WAL-MART won't let me shop there anymore.
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