Does this count as complex carbs?
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 ...
WOO-HOO!! (Not Guilty!)
This is a sure sign of the Apocalypse. Try to tell a hungry person that they can't have a Big Mac and french fries because it is "bad for them." Try to take it out of their hands.
I will turn my head and read about your horrible beating death in the paper tomorrow.
For a good, brief discussion of carbs, simple and complex, see this page:
http://www.answers.com/topic/carbohydrate?cat=technology
Complex carbs are found in foods which contain nutrients other than digestible sugars, ie, fiber (cellulose), vitamins, minerals, etc.
Kahmsamnida. Although I might humbly suggest a new eyeglass rx. There are ladies out there much better looking then me. LOL!
Does this count as complex carbs?
Parts of it do...
Onions, tomato, lettuce, pickles, sesame seeds, yes...the sauce, the bun — no. Meat and cheese equal protein and fat.
Thanks. If you can get two syllables of that out of your mouth before a hungry person in a third world country beats the snot out of you for the Whopper in your hands, I’ll buy you a drink.
“Our food pantry’s for the less fortunate are an important part of our stewardship...But I don’t think any of them are handing out junk food. No one would donate.”
Some of that food has extremely high fat and salt content, actually worse in some cases than “junk food”.
Where’s the daddy?
I never argue with hungry people. If they are near me, I feed them.
But you can buy me a drink anyway. I’ll have a very strong, very hot, very fresh, slightly sweet cup of coffee.
And thank you for your service to our country. :D
You take my home page too seriously. I am too much of a coward to actually be in the military. I would crawl under my bed and ask for my mommy at the first sign of gunfire. Unless it’s a bar fight.
I leave that to braver men than me.
Unlike the liberal with a camera taking pictures of hungry people, you are right, I can’t walk past a hungry person without feeding them. Despite the image of right wingers like me as being uncaring capitalists, when I was down in Virginia recently, I gave a $10 bill to a hungry guy outside a 7-11 to buy food.
When the prices of food go up, the “poor” will do what made them poor in the first place — take the course of least resistance, buying the food that takes the least amount of work to prepare.
You can have a balanced diet for very little money if you are willing to plan and cook.
Is your husband Korean, by any chance, or are you just into Korean stud actors and food?
So you were not in Viet Nam?
No. Hubby and I used to live in Korea. We taught ESL over there for a year. Survived the IMF crisis of 1997 over there. : )
I was 6 years old when the Vietnam War ended.
They might have been able to use me there in 1969. From what my dearly departed grandmother told me, my diaper was a weapon of mass destruction.
Throw out the bun and put more lettuce on it....yummy!
Just a baby. Never mind about the drink. PS, FUNNY home page. :D
Hanna, du, set, net, dassat, yassat, ilgo, yado, aho, yo.
Can not remember the “buzz word” is it “food insecure” they don’t look it.
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