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 ...
Oh come on. It’s not your age, I’m sure you’re lovely.
I guess I’m like George Costanza when he didn’t get the meaning of “buy you a cup of coffee” on Seinfeld. I didn’t mean it that way.
I can’t buy you a drink in the biblical sense or a cup of coffee only because I’m married with children.
I meant buy you a drink in the literal sense. Like, I would buy you a drink.
You’re too tense. It’s OOOOO-KAAAAAAAY. Really.
And I meant “a cup of coffee” in the literal sense, George.
:D
I’m too tense???!!!
What’s that supposed to mean? Huh? It’s not true.
I am not too tense. I’m not I tell you. Why would you say that anyway.:-)
LOL!!!
It counts as WHAT’S FOR DINNER the next time I travel. :-D
Why? They don’t have fruit and vegetable carts in your local airport?
Eat an apple instead of a Big Mac. Don’t make the Gubmint ban fast food in airports to save health care costs.
Mark the date and time of this post down. If you told somebody that they would ban smoking in private business establishments today when in 1988 all John Banzhaf wanted was some non smoking sections on airplanes, most people would have thought you nuts.
There will be a ban on fast food in airports and stadiums within 20 years.
Many thanks!
My pleasure.
Thanks for the ping!
I remembered this after your posts.
Thought each of you might find it interesting if you hadn’t read it.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article1291119.ece
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/09/business/worldbusiness/09ando.html?ref=obituaries
The idea stemmed from an experience a decade earlier, when Japan was still ravaged by postwar poverty. In “The Story of the Invention of Instant Ramen,” an autobiography published in 2002, Mr. Ando told of walking through the rubble-strewn streets of Osaka.
“I happened to pass this area and saw a line 20, 30 meters long in front of a dimly lit stall from which clouds of steam were steadily rising,” he wrote. “People dressed in shabby clothes shivered in the cold while waiting for their turn. The person who was with me said they were lined up for a bowl of ramen.”
I can see that in some of the canned smeats.
You are right.
I had kimchi ramen for dinner tonight. Threw an egg in it and made myself egg drop soup. LOL!
how cute her babies are... she looks happy in the photo...
Try to tell a hungry person that they can’t have a Big Mac and french fries because it is “bad for them.”
Not something I would do. Hungy is hungry.
I have never heard of a pantry giving that out anyway.
But...
“ Try to take it out of their hands.
I will turn my head and read about your horrible beating death in the paper tomorrow.
If that article is right I am more afraid of getting sat on. lol
Some jerk in Hollywood would may read your post and try to make a reality TV show out of such an idea. “Big Mac Retrieval”.
That would really be a sign of the Apoclaypse.
Related article with another hunger expert - I didn’t know there were so many:
I did not know it either. Thanks
Your homepage is brilliant. Had to bookmark it for resource material.
More problems created by evil republicans that will dissappear immediately when a democrat takes the white house.
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