Kahmsamnida!
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 ...
ROFLOL!!!
Thank you so much! I knew I couldn’t post it as well as it needed to be done—it was perfect!!
FReegards,
Judy
I cheated - I googled it and found the version I originally heard. We still tell that joke because it makes us laugh every time!
Hahahahahahahaha. What a gut-buster! Thanks!
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Grate a little cheese over it. That’s some good eatin’.
I have to add stuff to the ramen, like a scrambled egg...makes a good egg drop soup. You can also add some chicken or turkey to it as well. Tuna even, if you’re adventurous.
Or even just schlep pails of water up 6 flights of steps 4 times a day. Chamberpots down, fresh water up.
Kahmsamnida!
Michelinas between .50 and $1, about 400 calories. Sure, lots of sodium, but balance that out with water.
Poor people are fat for the same reason they’re poor - they’re lazy and they make stupid decisions. “
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True....and everyone knows it, even the porkers.
Wow. Mastiffs are nice! We have Aussies at our house.
Aussies are so brainy—very loveable, imho.
What a great country!!!!!! God Bless America.
Our biggest "problem" is that the "poor" are too fat.
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We the People Sheeple of the United States Nanny State, in Order to form a more perfect Union Socialist Utopia, establish Justice Socially engineer a country of non smoking, physically fit, teetotalers, insure domestic Tranquility Smoking bans in bars, limits on unhealthy food and social drinking, provide for the common defense Universal Healthcare, promote the general Welfare health of the population whether they like it or not, in order to save above mentioned Universal Healthcare entitlement program from bankruptcy, and secure the Blessings of Liberty Dependency to ourselves progressive liberals and our Posterity Hitler Youth who we brainwash through public school education, do ordain decree and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. Nanny State of Liberals.
Only in the US. People can choose. Sometimes it may take some extra effort to find good prices on fruits and veggies, but, what can I say. We’re all doomed.
Dude, there is no amount of satire that either of us can come up with to out -do this one. Fact is stranger than fiction.
We as Americans have it so good that “researchers” and grant junkies who live off the Gubmint tit have to invent stuff to worry about.
Satire is so, like Twentieth Century, y’know.
Exhibit B: Poor people who don't live in America....
We sponsor 6 children...voluntarily without gubmint intervention.
I get so angry when I see stuff like this:
Attention you stupid POS researchers, go get a real job.
‘complex’carbs??
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